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Two good letters to the editor of the Washington Post about their coverage of the DLC/Dean flap from last week: The Real Howard Dean (washingtonpost.com)

I got an e-mail last night. It was personalized (they got my first name right), and they tell me that they’ve been selling “enterprise software to lawyers” for 12 years. Now it appears that they have a CRM system. Amazingly enough, after they did some research they purport to have figured out the answer to…

Nice twist at the end. Reactions?

National Dean in 2004 Meetup Day — Join other Dean Supporters WHO Dean Supporters Worldwide. So far, 25002 have signed up.

This is a great flashback. (Pop quiz: how many of the screen shots look familiar to you?) A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web: Reflections on microsoft.com from Birth to ‘Middle Age’ In the beginning, www.microsoft.com was just one computer tucked under a table at the end of a long hallway. It was designed…

Warren Says Warren Buffett says: When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a “break” requires — now or down the line — that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can’t deliver a free lunch to…

RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions From Thomas R. Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: “As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we’ve added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent decisions. There are two: http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/rss/0.91/supct_today.rss Actually the less-useful of the two feeds, this…

Andy has tapped into a large movement of “anti-weblogger ferver.” There are a lot of them out there, believe me. It’s just a natural cycle to go through. Weblogs have gotten a lot of hype. Now it’s time for the anti-hype cycle to happen. No biggie. I’ll keep weblogging whether it’s popular or not. [via…

Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing I am not a Microsoft hater, Macintosh zealot, or Linux nerd. I do, however, believe in principled computing. My law office uses multiple operating systems and multiple applications, some open source, some not. I care more about how my data is formatted and stored than how the data is…

In a battle of man vs. iPod, I won. It bent to my will, and finally accepted data from my computer. (Turns out the Apple tech support guy was right: it was the iPod, the cable or the Firewire card. The Firewire card, actually.) After replacing the Greek knock-off Firewire card (sold at the Apple…