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Fun with Legal Writing ? and Anchovies (with a main dish of haiku)
Posted on January 04, 2008Almost every good legal writer will say, ?good legal writing is simply good writing.?David Giacalone, in his 12/29/07, f/ka post, you tell ?em ? hold the anchovies, teaches about writing haiku (and writing generally) by comparing 3 haiku/senryu, from the tantalizing to the gristly...
Willy-Nilly is Not a Legal Research Strategy: Public Law Librarians and Advice to Unpublished Children?s Book Authors
Posted on January 04, 2008Pro se (aka pro per or self-represented) law library patrons have a tough time of it. If you didn?t learn in high school or college how to learn, how to study, or how to develop a research strategy, then the legal research process will be a very steep uphill battle...
Oregon Traffic Laws 2008 and a New Year?s Resolution Just for You
Posted on January 02, 2008New traffic laws are highlighted at the Oregonian and at the DMV (see their other press releases here). Old and new traffic laws here and here and here.And here?s a traffic rule NO ONE in Portland seems to know, except for those drivers from countries where one is expected to know the Roundabout Rules (and to learn how to drive, and park, before getting a license) (e...
Human Customer Service v. Machine
Posted on January 02, 2008The Get Human database now has 500 (!) phone numbers, including and dialing instructions, for reaching a real person rather than a recorded voice when you need customer assistance.Thanks to Sabrina at beSpacific for her Get Human update (and for all her postings!).
Tips for Conference Bloggers
Posted on January 02, 2008Kevin Kelly?s Cool Tools are cool for a reason. His tips range far and wide ? and I bet he has more fun web surfing (and living) in a week than most of us do in a month. He sure packs it in. One of his latest posts is about live-blogging at conferences, Tips for Conference Blogggers and he links to Bruno Giussini?s Lunch Over IP post on the subject.
A New Bedsworth to Ring in the New Year
Posted on December 31, 2007There is no better way to end an old or begin a New Year than a visit with Justice Bedsworth, who takes on Kansas, Nebraska, London, South Korea, France, and Italy. As for London and Nebraska:?? So, as you can see, there is not much to choose between these two places except that London has part of an ocean protecting it from the maniacal French, while Nebraska is chockablock next to the maniacal Kansans and you pretty much live in constant fear that they might pour across the border at any moment and take your science textbooks away from you...
State Agency Databases Database
Posted on December 31, 2007This doesn?t look like much, but it is! And I?ve already used it to answer someone?s reference question because it was quicker to use than digging through the state?s databases directly.State Agency DatabasesAnd it even answers the age-old non-librarian question: What is a database?Some ?what is a database?? definitions may confuse more than they clarify, e...
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How to evict a roommate?
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I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
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