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Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-02-28

John T Davis — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:30:00 +0000

RT @BreakingNews: UT Tyler student and another man arrested in East Texas church arson cases
http://bit.ly/d2FGv6 #
RT @BreakingNews: Pope Benedict XVI says he opposes full-body airport scanners: “Human dignity must be preserved” http://bit.ly/9SJJ2W #
The right lens in my glasses is covered in long, thin hairline scratches, or cracks, or something.Double plus ungood. #
Utah Bill Criminalizes intentional and recklessly induced miscarriage: http://is.gd/92NYL. Passed by Utah house+senate. Stunned. #law #legal #
Re: #Utah http://is.gd/92QPe. Pay attention to last 3 paragraphs. Suggestion to remove “reckless” language ignored for time considerations. #
One last tweet on this: the definition of legal “recklessness” in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recklessness_(law) #
I think #lexis is transmitting userID/pass in cleartext in the URL at sign on. Redirects too fast get a screenshot to confirm. Unsafe? #
The ultimate olympic sport is back on the TV box. That’s right: CURLING on MSNBC. #olympics #curling #broomplusrockplusiceisawesome #
#Curling terms: stone, hammer, “Hard!”, “Whoa!”, “Line looks good!”, “Line looks great!”, “End”, “In the House”, “button”, “Yep”. #olympics #
It would be fun to be a hockey player named “Mr Lolwut”, if only because the back of your jersey would proclaim, to all the world, “LOLWUT”. #
General Motors to close Hummer unit after sale to Chinese company collapses, sources say http://bit.ly/cDx6my /via @BreakingNews #
I just heard the new Subway commercial, with the “Five Dollar Foot Long” song. ROFL. #fivedollarfootlong #
Reading Tome v. US 513 U.S. 150. Kind of surprised this isn’t per curiam. Evidence law requires an iron stomach and emotional distance. #
RT @BreakingNews: Bailed-out British bank RBS plans bonus payments of around £2 billion after posting £3.6 billion loss for ‘09 – BBC #
RT @BreakingNews: Iceberg size of Luxembourg breaks off glacier in Antarctica, could affect ocean circulation patterns http://bit.ly/a2EGTj #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-02-21

John T Davis — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:30:00 +0000

#NBC needs to stop using words like “tragedy” and “death” to describe bad #Olympics outcomes, since an athlete has actually perished. #
Speaking of which, here comes the #Olympics men’s luge competition. Hopefully we can get through it without anything too crass. #
#Olympics I love that Shen and Zhao, the married Chinese pair skating couple, skated to beautiful “Who Wants to Live Forever” instrumental. #
#Olympics Shen and Zhao win gold. Incredibly romantic. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. (Yes, it’s belated, but this is worth it.) #
RT @BreakingNews: UK’s Barclays bank … doubled profit of £11.6bn ($18.2bn) for 2009; CEO and president forgo bonuses http://bit.ly/bdhPEj #
They’re everywhere. Watching. #squirrels http://yfrog.com/4evbkej #
The latest on the Google Buzz privacy debacle: http://is.gd/8Hjv4. Now with real off switch: http://is.gd/8Hjv5. #
RT @BreakingNews: Update: FBI opens crim. investigation into Pennsylvania school system that took photos of students on webcams at home – AP #
RT @BreakingNews:Bush admin. lawyers didn’t break ethics rules by OKng harsh terror interrogations.- Justice Department http://bit.ly/bD50bm #
Post on Google Wave for Law Students: http://is.gd/8KMJI. Sad there’s no comments. #
Google Buzz Opinion: http://is.gd/8KOtl. G meant to expose everyone’s gmail addressbooks on Buzz to build 175M+ network overnight. No error. #
Problem w/ rollout of #Google #Buzz: your email addressbook was completely public by default. Unsafe privacy, confidentiality violations. #
Every safety, privacy, confidentiality problem w/ #Google #Buzz rollout came from address book exposure. If they hadn’t done that, no prob. #

Technorati Tags: Bush Administration, Google Buzz, Google Wave, Legal Ethics, Luge, NBC, Olympics, Privacy, squirrels, Terrorism

Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-02-07

John T Davis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:30:00 +0000

RT @BreakingNews: Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts says he supports abortion rights http://bit.ly/co8PSi | Unexpected. #
Just had great idea for iPad app. But: no developer account, hardly any free time, and don't know Objective C. Best book for iPhone/ObjC? #
My 26th birthday is in exactly 4 weeks. How did *that* happen?! #
In love with new ExpertMouse (trackball). The action is smooth, & it it's much less work to manipulate a ball than sling a mouse around. #
Also, in an emergency, you can throw the trackball … ball component at your enemies. Trebuchet! #
Star Trek Online hits tomorrow. Cool! #
New #iPhone software is live. Bugfixes and security updates; nothing terribly sexy unless one of the bugs was bothering you. #
Simplenote is amazing. Totally changed the way I keep notes on my #iPhone #Mac No excuse not to keep notes, & they're always w/in reach. #
Wal-mart to layoff 300 workers at Bentonville, Ark., headquarters to trim costs – AP /via @BreakingNews | Apocalypse? #
Bankruptcy Court judges write some of the most interesting, well-written, witty opinions I've had the pleasure of reading. #
Toyota to recall Priuses — report http://bit.ly/bONpDf #
Finally had time to work my way through the rest of the Scrivener tutorial. Excellent. #
RT @BreakingNews: January unemployment rate in U.S. drops unexpectedly to 9.7 percent; employers cut 20,000 jobs – AP | Yay. Also, boo. #
45 pages of Patent Litigation reading to go. Roll out. #
Laches sounds like some sort of steamed coffee drink that you can only get at Starbucks for exorbitant fees. #legalwordsarestrange #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-01-31

John T Davis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:30:00 +0000

Cleared 74 pages of Oil and Gas reading (1 week's worth) today. 62 pages of Evidence (1 week's worth) yesterday. Yay, productive weekends! #
Saints win. See you all at the Superbowl. (Seriously, this has been one of the hardest fought football games I've ever seen.) #
Just saw commercial for "Hot Tub Time Machine". Everything I've accomplished and had happen to me this weekend gone in a wave of fail. #
RT @BreakingNews: U.K. officially exits 18-month recession with figures showing 0.1 percent growth in last three months of 2009 – AP #
RT @BreakingNews: The U.S. government bans texting by drivers of large commercial trucks and buses with immediate effect – Reuters #
RT @BreakingNews: General Motors close to announcing a deal to sell Saab division to Spyker Cars NV http://bit.ly/6YeUhl #
RT @BreakingNews: NASA ends effort to free Spirit rover from Martian sand
http://bit.ly/9wwoHC #
RT @BreakingNews: Dating site eHarmony settles law suit, agrees to make Web site more "welcoming" to gays, lesbians http://bit.ly/cIN7g7 #
Anticipation.
Will existence morph again?
iThing is coming.
#haiku #apple #
RT @BrentSpiner: Didn't Captain Picard used to play with a pad like that in his ready room? STAR TREK STRIKES AGAIN!!! | #apple #ipad #
#iPad as ebook reader: should be able to have an ebook open on 1/2 of screen, and notetaking app on the other. I do this on Macbook w/ PDFs. #
RT @BreakingNews: Ford announces a profit of $2.7 billion for 2009, its first annual profit in four years – AP #
Just overheard someone who sounds *just* like Lor from #Disney #039;s Weekenders. Cool! #
RT @BreakingNews: GDP grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the quickest pace in more than six years – Reuters #
RT @BreakingNews: U.S. wages and benefits for 2009 rise by the smallest amount on records going back 27 years, Labor Department says – AP #
#iPad will eventually have a dock-connector-to-component/HDMI video adapter. With the right software, you can then replace entire #AppleTV #
Evidence class is a lot like Criminal Law class. Reading admission rules/cases for prior sex crimes now. Flesh-crawlingly horrid stuff. #
More fantasy epics should feature heroes who ride into battle atop muscled, fire breathing winged unicorns. I have spoken. #unicornsareneat #
RT @BreakingNews: Google dropping support for Internet Explorer 6, still used on millions of computers worldwide http://bit.ly/9C9DrU #
Wanted to share some articles I've been reading around the 'Nets on the #iPad so I rounded them up and blogged them: http://is.gd/7kwbx. #
Just used Wordpress 2.9's built in WYSIWYG editor to compose a blog post. I haven't used it in years. It's gotten really nice. #
I've never stopped and listened to the words, but John Mayer's "Daughters" is one of the most sexist songs I've ever heard. #
Incredible sexism couched in a surrounding "Be a good Dad!" message. Impressive. #
Biting the bullet and starting a clean up of my OTHER email box. … 2700 messages. Oy. #
Just found a Google Voice invite in my mailbox. … How long has this been in here? I am a packrat. #
And, done. Gone from 2700 emails in my inbox to <300. Not bad at all. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2009-08-23

John T Davis — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:30:00 +0000

President Obama just said we're out of Iraq by 2011. …That's one way to distract the media from the Healthcare debate (such as it is). #
Giving #Carbonite online backup a try… #
RT @AnnCurry: Here's the link to NYT story that DNA evidence can be fabricated. http://tinyurl.com/pc276f #
Really liking #Carbonite online backup so far. Only major negative: encryption doesn't support user-managed private keys on #Mac. #
Swiss Bank UBS to Divulge More than 4000 Account Names: http://bit.ly/6DVr7 #
I'm contemplating learning LaTeX just so I can create templates for legal memos and briefs and have them look awesome. Need a hobby. #
@choochoobear But it's gorgeous, though. The shadows, clean lines, and shading are marvelous. Time well spent. in reply to choochoobear #
@eboehnisch Is it doable to run the DevonThink Pro Office server as a standalone application? #
Win a new Canon 5DMKII (or $2500 Gift Cert) from @OPGear & Scott Bourne. Pls RT. Details here: http://bit.ly/BqU8N #
Confirmed my DVD Drive in my #Macbook is dead. It's still covered by #Apple Care. Do I have to send it off, or will they fix in store? #
@eboehnisch I figured. I use DTOP and love it, but I don't think it'd run well on a PB G4 867MHz/1.12 GB. Thought about using PB as server. in reply to eboehnisch #
@leolaporte Personally, I'm concerned about the remaining 0.3%, though am comforted by the fact it's probably in the margin of error. in reply to leolaporte #
Day two of mortal combat with my Samsung 2243BWT monitor ends in stalemate. I'll get good color out of this thing if I have to bribe an elf. #
@leolaporte Looks delicious, and like you're having a blast. What sort of fish is that? #
It's 2009. We can smash atoms. Why is making a monitor's color/brightness/etc. look right (purple is NOT magenta) still secret voodoo magic? #
Just got someone with trustworthy eyes to run the MagicTune color calibration software on my #Samsung 2243BWT. Looking great now. #
On larger LCD monitor, I notice lower 1/3 is significantly (but slightly) brighter than upper 2/3. Same, lesser effect on my laptop. Why? #
@mduncanvm The brightness difference surprised me. Before I noticed it on MBP, thought I got a bad unit. Guess I can't do anything about it. in reply to mduncanvm #
@mduncanvm I wonder if uneven brightness is a problem on OLEDs. LCDs are like consumer digicams. Even at high/mid range flawed by design. in reply to mduncanvm #
@mduncanvm Something to look forward to. Now, if they could do something about the requisite and maddening process of calibrating displays. in reply to mduncanvm #
First day of class tomorrow. I'm out for the evening. #
Saw this on the App Store: http://is.gd/2vGKE. "Ricky," a Mario Bros. clone. Uses a Mario Mushroom for its logo. Surprised it was approved. #

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