(Written on the plane from Moscow, Tuesday 20 July ( Read more... )

One of the things I don't like about my Blackberry is that it encrypts image files, and the only way I've found to transfer them to my computer is to send them to myself via e-mail. I've tried other methods, like Bluetooth and installing the proprietary Blackberry software on Mr_Aloysius, but none of that works at all. In perusing the photos on ( Read more... )

I have a tendency not to follow in great detail much of the news, but I know enough to know that the news is telling us that a volcano exploded in Iceland (I've seen a picture, for what it's worth), and that there's a great ash cloud which is preventing people from flying into or out of this island. (But at the same time, talk about a government ( Read more... )

Yesterday was 1 April 2010, and I started the day with some minor pranks. One would have to get up fairly early (or at the very least before 7:15 a.m.) to fool this fooler ( Read more... )

I undertook two themes of minor mischief this year. The first was the same mischief I undertook last year with respect to Josh:

I lost my cell phone (on april fools day, of all days!). Can you text me your phone no.? Thanks"While last year I received no response, this year Josh texted me with a query of how I was texting him if I didn't have his ( Read more... )

I work in England, and in England they have different law from in America. I am an American lawyer, though, and so I am supposed to be working on American law. American securities law comes up a lot internationally, because a lot of non-American companies would like to get American investors to invest in their companies. When I say investors, I don ( Read more... )

This week at work was busy. While I am now on vacation, I'm still attached to my Blackberry and am checking it regularly. I wanted to get as much done last week as I possibly could, and I think I handled things fairly well. Friday night I rolled out of work by eleven in time to get home and clean and then conclude, before cleaning, that I was ( Read more... )

I screwed up at work this week, pretty big. I've spent a lot of time working on different sections of a big document (the prospectus). The other law firm is in charge of putting the prospectus together, and I was responsible for sending them certain sections. We've done this a lot of times, and so there are times when I distribute the sections ( Read more... )

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