Miscellany
Using a bus lane as a cash cow
Several months back I followed an unfamiliar route across London twice in 10 days. Two weeks after the first incident I received a PCN for driving in a bus lane and 10 days later another one! I could not believe I had inadvertently strayed into a bus lane twice so I googled it. It’s a […]
Is there a dark side of the moon? and other questions
I’ve been trying to get a handle on Google’s new Hummingbird algorithm update, but with so many self-appointed experts spewing out so much tosh on the web, it’s taken a while to gather my thoughts. One of the most helpful pieces I have come across is by Jeremy Hull on Wired Insights, from which (my […]
A letter
Today I received a letter! Not a love letter*, nor a middle class thank you note, and not an impersonal business letter, but a thank you letter which sought to maintain and progress a business relationship. What a pleasure! Anyone else remember the days when tweeps and other peeps wrote letters? * Weren’t the 60s […]
SEO for dummies
Nearly Legal has a thing for Sally Field naked: she boosts his Google juice. His recent rise in the rankings for the said search term was helped by the fact that on Tuesday Sally won the Best Lead Actress Emmy for her role in Brothers and Sisters where all those leading TV actors you’ve seen […]
Legal webbery 2007
It being the start of Blawg 2007 Conference day, I had better post something lest I be castigated there for not doing my homework. A good place to go when you are short of immmediate legal web stimulation is your fave blogs’ blogrolls. So it was that I recently examined Charon QC’s, finding two new […]
Lawyers are necessary shock
Thanks to Kevin O’Keefe for pointing us to the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision that Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com domain name is not sufficiently distinctive to qualify as a trade mark, saying: For better or worse, lawyers are necessarily an integral part of the information exchange about legal services. See TTABlog for details.
When all else fails
My muse being dormant, I fall back on the blogger’s stand-by, the meta-post: Following cyber-stalking and death threats directed at A-list blogger Kathy Sierra, A-list blogger Tim O’Reilly and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came up with a proposed Blogger’s Code of Conduct. What a dumb idea. Whilst I would deplore abusive and threatening behaviour and […]
Mind your Rs
This on Slaw yesterday about Simon Fodden’s day in the Canadian Supreme Court got me thinking: Justice Charon was using a laptop, the only one of the nine to do so (at least so far as I could see). It would be interesting to discover whether she was able to follow the references to the […]
Was it something I said?
I had lunch with Charon on Friday; then he died. It has not made a blind bit of difference. Looks like he will be as prolific from the grave. Perhaps he perked up when he watched the rugby.
Pop 2.0 – it was 40 years ago today
Heading uptown this morning I picked up a copy of March’s Mojo at the newsagent, tempted by the enticing cover CD – a reworking of Sgt Pepper by a dozen groups most of whom I confess not to have heard of. The mag itself features a lengthy article describing the impact of this seminal album. […]
RTFPIFOY
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen posits in his latest monthly Alertbox article that what children need is not instruction on how to use Microsoft products (or Google apps or any other proprietary applications); just sit them in front of these and most will grasp the skills themselves far quicker than we can teach them – […]
Hard times
So, PC World has decided to let stocks of floppy disks run out. And that will be the end of it. Only yesterday I finally donated a CopyPro disk copier, purchased in the early 90s for a substantial 4-figure sum, to a worthy recipient who runs jumble sales of PC stuff. In its heyday it […]
She gets my vote
I’m not one to stray off topic, but can’t help admiring the skill of Shilpa Shetty who is favourite to win Celebrity Big Brother. Irritating as she is, she deftly exposes the lesser celebrities, with a few notable exceptions, as shallow and gullible (racism and bigotry aside). The smart prize also has to go to […]
