Tuesday, February 25, 2003New Music Alert: Hall and Oates' first studio album in six years, Do It For Love, is now out ($13.49 at Amazon.com)and providing perfect blogging accompaniment. Every track is delicious. And, best of all, the song, Someday We'll Know, features one of my all-time favorite musicians, Todd Rundgren, on guitar and vocals. You gotta love that Philly-blue-eyed-soul . . .
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Word Spy
"Recommended Site : Word Spy If you like words and their origins, (as librarians and information pro's I hope you do) if a fun time for you is leafing thru the OED, then I recommend going to Word Spy. Word Spy is a web site devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance. These aren't 'stunt words' or 'sniglets,' but new words and phrases that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, press releases, and Web sites....ENJOY!" [kfsource]
This is an irresistible site for word lovers. Of the "Top 10 Words" posted today, my favorite is "unread bestseller." Get a free subscription to receive the current Word Spy word each weekday by e-mail here.8:32:39 PM
"Rock & Roll Library Chooses The FuzzyGroup for Web Development." [The FuzzyBlog!] Wow, how awesome. The FuzzyGroup is donating web development services to the Rock & Roll Library. Read the press release here. I can't wait to see what they come up with. And, on behalf of rock-and-rollers everywhere, thanks and a warm and *fuzzy* hug go to the The FuzzyGroup!
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NoteTab Pro
"Tech Tools for Lawyers - Recommendations. Franco Castalone of the LawTech blog recommends NoteTab Pro as a replacement for the Windows Notepad, noting that it has "dozens of supercharged features. It doubles as an HTML editor with the use of its Clipbook feature. It allows the user to open numerous text documents for editing, and to define a list of "favorites" for quick opening. " He also praises "The Clipbook as a serious power user's tool. A predefined HTML library can be used to insert paired tags as an HTML document is being edited. The user can also define and use his own Clipbook libraries, to create documents from standard or boilerplate text. NoteTab comes in three flavors -- the Light version is free, the Standard is $10, and the Pro version is $20. " [Ernie the Attorney]
This is way cool! I just downloaded the Light version, and it's impressive. It has groups of templates, one of which really caught my eye -- there's a template full of CSS1 styles, selectors, tags, and properties, etc. Since I'm just learning CSS, this is a godsend. For example, you click "text-align," and a pop-up window comes up, prompting you for the value (left, right, center, justify). And it's like that for all of the commands. This program is definitely the catch of the day. Thanks, Ernie!8:28:41 PM
Lawyers Who Blog
"ABA Journal: I’ve started getting fan mail now,” says Martin Schwimmer, publisher of the weblog called the Trademark Blog. 'It’s safe to say that I got virtually no fan letters when I was just a trademark lawyer.'” [Scripting News] This article features not only a take on why lawyers blawg, but even *pictures* of some of our favorite blawgers . . . Denise Howell [Bag and Baggage], Howard Bashman [How Appealing], Tom Goldstein [SCOTUS Blog], and Martin Schwimmer [Trademark Blog].
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From LLRX.com: "Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources for the Legal Community. Sabrina I. Pacifici's [beSpacific] guide to online free and fee-based resources provides links to recommended resources that include: search engines, business sites, people trackers, e-newsletters, financial newspapers, journals, web directories, bibliographies, court docketing services, news aggregators, and examples of comprehensive databases from Dialog, Westlaw and Lexis." This is a PowerPoint presentation that I can't wait to delve into. I took a quick look, and it's filled with some great stuff.
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