Personal iTunes Stat

I bought my first song from the iTMS in April '03, and since then have been averaging about $485 annually in purchases. I do believe that's more than I ever spent on CDs, but am just guessing. It'll be interesting to see to what extent that number goes up once I start using Apple TV.

The New Lightbulb Victory Dance

In a few years I'm really going to miss now, when me changing a lightbulb provokes in our son a fit of jumping up and down (with narration: "I'm jUmPiNg Up AnD dOwN!"), coupled with a moment of Navin R. Johnson purity: "We have a new lightbulb! WE HAVE A NEW LIGHTBULB!!!!!!"

Stuff Other People Think I Should Be Reading

I'm mucking out the inbox today and have gotten it down to its cleanest in months, a mere 40 or so left. (That puts the whole thing on a single page in Gmail. Key.)

Some themes stand out from the mass: blawgs people want me to read; products or people they want me to check out; legal issues they want to discuss as potential fodder for TWiL, Lawgarithms, or their own endeavors; requests for participation in people's academic or online examinations of aspects of the Live Web; conference and speaking stuff; and pointers to posts about work life balance and diversity in business and in law. Here are some items from the latter bucket:

• Catherine Price for Salon's Broadsheet, Getting ahead by working at home?: "The work paradigm, as it has stood for the past century, has been designed for work only, with no room for the complexities and challenges of trying to simultaneously raise a family. It's like trying to stuff both your legs through one side of your jeans -- sure, if you try hard enough you can probably do it, but you're probably going to rip your favorite pair of pants."


• Mister Thorne, A step in the Right Direction: "This firm is seen leading a serious effort to combat a persistent social problem: poorly educated children."


• Frank Pasquale, A Market for Flexible Law Practice: "Perhaps the ABA should require the disclosure of answers to questions like these, like the FDA requires nutritional labeling."

I Need A Second Life

Would've liked to catch Eric Schwartzman's program last Wednesday at my alma mater. Heck, would've liked to audit his whole class on new media public relations. Just for fun. (Other people play canasta.)

More Blawgs, Blawginess

Author and copyright lawyer Ray Dowd writes the Copyright Litigation blog.

Mister Thorne writes Set In Style, on law firm publishing.

Julie Elgar writes That's What She Said, a blog that adds some humorous reality to The Office by using it as a jumping off point for employment law discussion.

Tim Kevan and Aidan Ellis write The Barrister Blog on "lawyers, surfing, politics..." I like the blogroll, which has plenty of links to all three topics.

Also blawging (and imbibing) away in the UK: "Junior" of Corporate Blawg UK.

Legal Times now has a blog, The BLT (and yes, they've offered to hold the mayo).

Neil Squillante made a funny ad. (But Neil: Google doesn't make you be a member to get at the results. And doesn't pull results from just one walled-garden pool of sources.)

Though Ken Lammers' CrimLaw was set to flatline back in December, its doctors seem to have given it a reprieve!

Finally, per usual on Mondays, the new Blawg Review is up, this time courtesy of Bob Coffield. All the more impressive given Ed. has been slacking off around here, enjoying the sunshine, flora, and fauna.