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WordCamp Portland – info for Native PDX

To preview Native PDX, you can visit Zac’s WIP development page.
To get a widget for the search engine, go to bit.ly/nativepdx.
To submit your site to the engine, email me or send an @ reply (or a direct message) to @lawduck on twitter.

The Things We Lack

I watched the worst movie ever made recently, Richard Chamberlain’s King Solomon’s Mines. My wife has a story about a western she watched as a kid, where the daring cowboy had to leap over/through a brick wall on his horse. You could see the strings pulling the wall apart well in advance of the arrival [...]

Adium beta adds Twitter as a “group chat.”

And then computer goes foom!

I’ll have more to say when I can, you know, use my computer again.

Things Unsaid

There has been a marked lack of posting here, but as I am currently unable to exit the house, I might as well crank out the backlog.
On working. The return to the rigors of law practice has thus far gone reasonably well. There are still some hitches in my various getalongs, but for the most [...]

Empathy

Bridget Pilloud is a little weird. She talks to animals. Like, really talks to them. It doesn’t take long to discover that she’s both in earnest and truly legitimate, but in between that realization and the first experience with the site, it’s like you’ve stumbled into a parallel universe.
The idea of pet whispering is nothing [...]

World of Goo Releases for Mac!

2d Boy has released World of Goo for Mac! Go forth and make tarry snot bridges to DESTINY!
Because I can’t. Because I’m 16,000 words into NaNoWriMo and must continue to beat some words into submission. But in December, just you wait.

The People Have Spoken…

…and the results are here: The PDX Breakfast Tweetup Survey was a tremendous success in terms of response (what? What else would I be talking about?). Twenty-six people laid it on the line and told me what they wanted out of a Breakfast Tweetup. In true “um, DUH!” fashion, I did not answer my own [...]

50 ways to lose attorney-client privilege

Inspired by this tweet from Josh Bancroft. I might not really get to fifty…
The classic “shield not sword” argument applies when you disclose partial documents that would otherwise be privileged to prove how awesome your case is.
Similarly, talking about privileged communications in a way that makes them part of the dispute will waive the privilige, [...]

Not so bad. Famous last words.

When I get 11 hours of sleep and then everyone leaves the house for an hour, it is totally not a problem for me to crank out 1000 words. So, from the standpoint of “days that will never happen again,” I’m golden for National Novel Writing Month. I wish I could say the same for [...]

RSS Terms of Use – Really?

I was perusing as usual in Google Reader and came across this interesting little tidbit –
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
The Terms of Use are fairly tame, and seem mostly concerned with traffic – please don’t “host” our article on your site and pretend it’s your news. I can imagine that this is a concern but [...]