Fun
Yes, we have no posts
Since I’ve failed dismally to engage my fanbase recently by posting anything at all, I’ve concocted a piece of fluff for your delectation. I was intrigued that one of my fave blogs, Lords of the Blog, should post thus on 6 April: New blog developments–no posts until 7 April Sounds like an April Fools posted […]
Who dares wins
You’d think that a Big Law associate on £150K p.a. would be bright enough to figure that she should use a pseudonym when publishing her raunchy novel on the web. Not so Deidre Dare, [ex-]Senior Associate at Allen & Overy, Russia [see update]. But could it be she didn’t see her future at A & […]
Above the law?
Ironic that Above the Law should post a list of its Official Top 10 Law Songs replete with links to YouTube video clips, none of which, I’ll wager, are licensed. You have to wonder who voted in the poll. Heading the list is the Clash’s version of They Fought the Law and the Law Won […]
He couldn’t have said it better himself
I came across the following hilarious garbage, scraped from Kevin O’Keefe’s post about my FamilyLawPipe and translated into … what? Family accumulation pipes? Nick Holmes, a business consultant specializing in the UK jural sector, has created a FamilyLawPipe aggregating UK kinsfolk accumulation feeds with character Pipes. From Nick: —Yahoo Pipes is a assist from character […]
Holmes way bigger than Charon
Bigger even than Jupiter. Comet Holmes is exploding and its coma, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the sun, has grown to be bigger than the planet Jupiter. Meanwhile Pluto’s moon Charon is a mere 1,210 kilometers across.
5 things – the genesis
Courtesy of Technorati, the oldest accessible post I can find containing “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me” is this on 28 April 2006 by one who claims to be starting the chain. In the last 30 days posts peaked in the period 19-24 December, no doubt fueled by alcohol.
Playing tag
I’ve been tagged by Charon QC and must tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me (with bonus trivia added): 1. Although I was born in Twickenham, I spent my formative years in apartheid-era South Africa. Despite having returned 30 years ago, my vowels are still flat and people still ask me where I’m […]
Fun with numbers
Blog enthusiasts will be chuffed to learn that the blogosphere represents more than half of all websites. So bloggers rule! Or do they? Netcraft, in its November 2006 web survey reports that there are now over 101 million websites (hostnames), commenting that “Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, […]
Snakes, planes and the law
In an unashamed quest for blog popularity I give you a couple of connections between the movie “Snakes on a Plane”, released today, and the law, thanks to CNN (my emphasis added): The Internet hoopla started with a single entry on screenwriter Josh Friedman’s blog last summer. … Friedman’s wildfire spread … thanks to fan-created […]
The Ms have it
Lotus 123 was, to my mind, the best of the first killer apps: better than space invaders and the word processor. You could tabulate data and construct elaborate formulae to produce whatever result you wanted! That delight is now enabled by Excel. On behalf of the family judiciary I’ve been having a go with maintenance […]
Hotshot lawyer cracks the Smithy code
It did not take long. Dan Tench, a media partner at Olswang, who first discovered the “Smithy” code embedded in the Da Vinci Code judgment, has cracked it.
Fancy a crack at the Da Vinci Code judgment code?
Unnoticed for three weeks, Mr Justice Peter Smith embedded his own code in his recent Da Vinci Code judgment. Starting in paragraph 1 (page 5) he highlighted 42 letters in bold italic, the first ten spelling “smithy code” and the remainder (ending on page 13) a jumble yet to be decoded. Yesterday’s New York Times […]
