A New Idea on Getting Out of Jury Duty

While driving into work today I was listening to This Week in Law.  There was a discussion on mistrials that are occurring because jury members have been using Twitter or looking up information online.  You can’t put the genie back into the lamp for the internet, so it’s something the legal system is grappling with


Identity – It’s All About You

Identity, what is it?  There is multiple definitions, both from a dictionary standpoint to a legal standpoint – these don’t encompass the true philosophy of what identity truly is.  The reason we can’t truly have a good definition, is that everyone has a different thing that that they feel defines them.   Some people feel it’s


Copy – Paste – Repost Mentality

Yesterday I made a joke tweet (which get’s crossposted to Facebook), trying to be funny and truthful at the same time: Dear facebook friends – no matter the cause or reason, I will not copy and paste your status and make it mine – copy paste if you agree I immediately got 3 likes and


Rants on Itunes

Ahhhhh – the joy of itunes.   When it is tuned and working well, everything is a blessing.   When it is not working well – you can definitely want to slit your wrists with broken glass that has been fermented in a one week old diaper, but I’m not bitter.   Moving into the Apple ecosystem has


Scribd – Your Claiming Someone Owns the Copyright on Huckleberry Finn?

Yesterday I was being a smart ass with  the following tweet: Considering releasing my own version of huckleberry Finn – where the only diff is every instance of the characters name is fuckleberry hinn I figured this was a really quick edit, I could make the changes and upload it to Scribd.   I could then


WordPress – It’s a Love – Hate Thing

I understand why my wife hates blogging.  She hates everything that comes with a blog outside of writing.   Granted writing is something that she wants to want to do – but that is a completely different issue. When you run WordPress you need to worry about patching constantly.  Not just the WordPress software, but the


At Least It Wasn’t A Red One…..

It’s too bad they don’t make a toddler sonic screwdriver.  He is already obsessed with Doctor Who.   Well I guess a science officer in the federation will do for now.