Archive for April, 2006

Coffee

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

It’s 1:28 AM, and I just brewed a pot of coffee. Gonna be a long night.
(In case you’re wondering, the single biggest assignment of 1L year is due on Monday morning. I have a lot of writing and editing left to do.)

An Obstacle to Going Microsoft-free

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

I recently found a major obstacle to going Microsoft-free. I could switch to Linux, if I had the time to fool with it, at the moment, but it appears I am stuck with Microsoft Word, still. While I really like OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OOo), it doesn’t have native support for creating tables of authorities (a.k.a., tables [...]

Winter Exams Post-Mortem (Final)

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Well, they weren’t bad, after all; in fact, they were better than my fall grades. I’m not ecstatic about either grade in absolute terms, but I am certainly thrilled with the fact that I was not at the bottom of the curve in Contracts. I also had the gratifying experience of hearing Professor Baird say, [...]

Windows XP Pro SP2 Hibernation Problems – Fixed?

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

I have mentioned before (here and here the problem of “too much” memory causing crashes and failed hibernation/standby attempts in Windows XP laptops. Microsoft has made a hotfix available, but it’s still in testing (until 2007, from the looks of it), so you have to call and ask for it (which is free). It seems [...]

Summer Job

Friday, April 14th, 2006

I am happy to say that I have accepted a summer job as a research assistant with Professor Todd Henderson. It should be great.

Just what is KFC selling, anyway?

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I got the following receipt at a KFC, this past weekend, when I put my meal on a debit card, being completely out of cash:

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For obvious reasons, I was a little horrified at first, but nothing actually went wrong, thankfully…