Month: December 2002

Want to change your Windows NT or Windows 2000 boot-up screen? Take a visit over to this site to follow some pretty straightforward instructions on how to do it. (Not for the faint of heart – you’re changing a Windows system file.) In about 20 minutes, I was able to add my company’s logo to…

I’m still alive. Quiet and exhausted, but alive. Yesterday was fairly typical of days on the road lately: 5am: alarm goes off. In a fog, I stumble out of bed. “Where am I?” Phone says Marriott Courtyard, Crystal City. “Right. DC.” “Why am I in DC?” “Why’s the alarm going off?” Shower clears the fog.…

The New York Times runs an article by Barnaby Feder announcing that WiFi is “hot” but that profit potential is “tepid”. (Always nice to see the Times doing its part for vocabulary appreciation.) A couple quotes: Many of the early leaders in Wi-Fi are obscure companies like Proxim, Buffalo, Linksys and Dlink. … [T]he communications…

The more I read about Howard Dean, the more I am convinced that he will be a serious candidate that will frighten the Republicans during primary season. Check out this article from a couple weeks ago in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. While some hint that he’s really just running for Vice President or Secretary…

From Jennifer Klyse, exactly the kind of project that would generate a tremendous amount of attention and awareness of how weblog technology can produce tangible benefits: What I’ve been working on when I haven’t been at work.. I had an idea for a newsfeed. Since I’ve become completely hooked on my aggregator in Radio, I find myself…

Will Ferrell as Santa Claus in a couple parodies of Apple’s Switch campaign… On Santa’s run-in with the law: “Merry Christmas! … or Happy Holidays! I could go either way.“ On Santa’s iPod: “980 Christmas songs. And 20 Doobie Brothers. And 1 Sheryl Crow.“ Yes, the Ellen Feiss ad is funny. But there’s something about…

Ernie nails it : “[E]ven more important is the conversation that is taking place amongst lawyers in San Fransicso, Chicago, Maine, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Brussels.  Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web precisely so that such conversations could take place.  And people like Ev Williams and Dave Winer created simple tools to facilitate…

That’s it, I’ve got to read Cryptonomicon again – From CafeauLait.org: How did Enoch Root come back from the dead? He dies in Sweden in 1944 on on p. 541 when “the only other people in the room are Rudolf von Hackelheber, Bobby Shaftoe, and the Swedish doctor.” Then, 55 years later, Enoch Root shows…

My good buddy Erik Heels has published a fantastic primer on how to choose domain names. In a former life, Erik and I wrote a book togeter (the well-written but terribly-titled Law Law Law on the Internet) and we continue to co-author nothing.but.net for the American Bar Association. Today, Erik’s an IP lawyer based outside…

Guess this is as good a place as any to vent. I was invited to speak at a conference next week in DC. Attendees will be c-level marketing executives from the nation’s top law firms. While there are plenty of qualified possible speakers out there, the conference organizer invited me because we’ve known each other…