Tag: Tech

  • Russia Rising (in My Inbox)

    The number of Russian-language spams (or at least Cyrillic font) I get has risen dramatically, lately. For a while, I got a lot of Chinese and Korean spams, but now, the Russian stuff reigns supreme, at a bit over 5% of the total. I’m not sure what this signifies. On the one hand, obviously, a…

  • New Site Design

    I think you’ll agree: it was time for an overhaul of this site. The layout was getting stale, the navigation menu was completely out of control, and the sheer quantity of content was causing serious bloat. Well, finally, today, I delivered: a completely new layout, a completely new architecture/organization, a handful of new features, and…

  • Gmail Downtime

    Even the great Google suffers downtime. It’s a bit reassuring when a machine I administer goes down for an hour or two to reflect that even a mega-corporation with a tremendously large number of servers and outrageous redundancy can have comparable problems from time to time.

  • Windows: Another Sure Thing?

    After writing my last post, I discovered what may be another sure thing: unpredictable failures to work by Windows. Our printer is networked; it sits downstairs, connected to an old laptop, and we print everything to it over the network. It has been working fine. Well, okay, it’s been a little flaky for a few…

  • The Bar Exam, Post-Mortem

    Well, we made it to the other side of the Texas bar exam intact. That was not a particularly fun experience. When taking the bar, a person definitely reaches a point where he knows very little law, knows this, and just can’t fit any more in his head without forcing out something truly important, like…