Nothing To Declare At This Time

"Siva dances in an aureole of flame that rises from a lotus pedestal, symbol of primordial being and creation. The arched aureole and its three-tongued flames represent the universe and its ultimate destruction by fire. In his upper right hand Siva holds the drum representing the primordial sound at the creation of the universe; the second right hand makes a gesture of reassurance. His upper left hand holds the flame of destruction. The lower one points to his left foot, refuge of the soul, and shows the path of salvation through Siva's trampling of the demon that personifies ignorance."

Beam Us Up

Dr. Weinberger has some excellent suggestions for "Enterprise." See also Ray Ozzie and Groove Networks.

Citrix For Mac OS X

This is cause for celebration in my life (note to self: get new life), and I duly blog it in case it may bring a smile to your day, too. Two aspects of technology important to my work have cohered, to wit: I work on a Mac at home and out of the office, we use Citrix to access the office network remotely, and Citrix now has a preview release of an OS X client! You can download it here. Seems to run beautifully in v. X.2. Now, if West would only wake up and smell the Premise...

Some Humans And Others On Legal Perplexities

Plenty of good stuff out there, here are a few recommendations:

Justice Bedsworth's column about tropical career paths and, somewhat obliquely, Newport Beach, CA.

This piece by Allyce Bess in Red Herring regarding the Intel v. Hamidi case and the trespass to chattels doctrine.

Howard Bashman's September column on privately funded judicial educational junkets: "The concern whether substantially underpaid federal judges might improperly try to curry favor with interest groups that can regularly offer those judges expense-free travel to exotic locations is more significant. The solution, though, is not to ban privately-sponsored seminars or to require that the curriculum lack any relevant point of view." (Sign up to receive Howard's column via email here.)

Professor Bernard Hibbitts of JURIST has an informative piece in the current issue of the National Law Journal's Litigator's Toolbox. (Aptly enough, this publication is all about technology but is not available online; see if your library has a copy.) The article is called Innovative Instruction: Law school courses focus on the technology of law. Among other things it discusses Professor Hibbitts' course on "Neteracy For Lawyers," at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, which has students creating Web sites (a blog or two, perhaps?), and his colleague Professor Ashley's course on Artificial Intelligence And The Law -- read the outline, they mean it (any of this ring a bell?).

LLRX Update

LLRX's September 16 edition is now available. It includes an article I wrote about the Pavlovich case, as well as LLRX's characteristic line up of good stuff.