Category: Miscellanea

  • 4 Lessons from Moving

    Well, it has been about a month since we moved, so it’s time for me to share a few thoughts about it. You Need Professionals. Moving is a huge pain. So are the processes of selling and buying houses. You know that. I know that. But there are people out there who refuse to let it get them…

  • How to Make Pretty Blanks in Word

    The Problem If you ever work with Microsoft Word, you have probably needed to insert a blank line or a block of text in a filled-in blank. For example, maybe you want a blank like this:         . Or maybe you want a blank with text in it,      like this     . If you just try turning on…

  • Ch-Ch-Changes

    As many of my readers know, I have a lot going on right now. We’re expecting our first child, Catherine, in May! Meanwhile, my wife and I are selling our current house in Houston later this week and moving to a Houston suburb (more house, less money, good times). Things are a little busy. That…

  • TAMES Search Bookmarklet for Searching Texas Cases

    I have created a little bookmarklet for searching for Texas cases in the Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court. A bookmarklet, if you’re not familiar with that term, is a “smart bookmark” that does some action when you use it. It’s actually a little program, so you can do pretty handy things with bookmarklets. How…

  • Terrible Experience with Auslogics

    I just had a terrible experience with Auslogics. If you are not familiar with them, they make an excellent tool for defragmenting hard drives (faster and better than the Windows native tools) (edit:) a popular but possibly malware-ridden disk defragmenter.1 They also make a product called BoostSpeed, which cleans up various things on computers that…