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Daily Kos member Acaben knows Ben Domenech:

For over a year I played in a regular poker game that Ben also frequented. These days the game has dwindled to once every month or so, but we still meet over cards and chips and beer and have a good time. In fact, I saw him this past […]

The other day I suggested to Dineen that she have a professional web site apart from whatever her firm puts up. Smacking my forehead, I realized that I should do that as well.
So I did.
After the site was largely finished, I did a quick check on MSIE 5 on Dineen’s PC. […]

On September 22, 2005, Mike Krempasky testified before Congress on one of the pillars of our way of life: freedom of this nation’s citizens to speak freely to and about their government.

Free to speak their minds, Americans have proven to be surprisingly unchanged from when de Tocqueville spoke of our boundless “liberty of opinion,” […]

Someone is waaaaay too much into his inkjet printer:

Just now, I was doing some full-duplex (2-sided) printing of some SXSW information. I was watching the paper come out, pleased at how well the printer works, and then it sucked the paper back in! It made a kind of “hmm” noise, and then it somehow flipped […]

Make a list of well-known politicians who are also advocates of breast feeding.

Who’s the last person you’d expect to see on the list? Newt Gingrich. But he is. This week, speaking on health issues at a conference for Florida legislators, Newt blamed obesity among the poor on welfare programs that fail to […]

She will never surrender! Katherine Harris is scheduled to make a “major announcement” this week, and it’s not what everyone expected it was. According to the Washington Prowler:

…Harris very bluntly told them to forget about [dropping out]. When told they had strong interest from a well-known, respected former Florida elected official in […]

A few days ago I lamented the lack of useful billing software packages for Apple. Today I discovered I’m not the only one who feels the pain. Web design firm Blue Flavor does too.
One would think that this is a problem that has been solved, but we’ve had a hell of a time […]

If you’re not at SxSW but wish you were, here’s two ways to check out the action:

Keynote and Panel podcasts
Flickr photos tagged with sxsw06

Psst… Mike… that’s another reason podcasts are cool.

Krempasky’s very large PR firm is looking for communications staff.

Krempasky’s not impressed at SxSW:

Back at SXSW, sitting through a panel on podcasting - when, why, how. It’s relatively interesting - but frankly - I’ve not heard anything that distinguishes advice about podcasting from advice about broadcasting events in traditional fashion. Why does everyone seem to think that podcasting really is the GREATEST THING EVER? […]

And to all of the following:

Lisa Lutz
Andrew Saxe
Martin L. O’Neal
Denise George
Tim Story
Noah Beggs
Karin Justman

I always forget to check my horoscope on my birthday, too, and it’s always the cool “if Today is Your Birthday” special edition. I won’t forget today!

Like Jason, I’m missing my second consecutive SxSW conference after attending (for me) four consecutive years.
Our stories are similar: a shift in professional emphasis combined with significant change in personal circumstances (for me, a move to Florida and the birth of my second son), resulting in us missing out on a chance to […]

President Bush today signed an updated and renewed version of the Patriot Act (can’t spell “Patriot” without “riot,” can we?) which brings us the perfect hook to this column by Mark Steyn, (link via Say Anything), discussing abuses of the Patriot Act - not by government, but by private citizens.

I had to sign a tedious […]

When you have to hold a press conference to deny the rumors that you’re about to abandon your run for U.S. Senate, maybe that’s a sign you should do exactly that.

Spring baseball is a significant perk to living in Florida. We have more teams training here than I could name, but every spring Tampa is home to the New York Yankees. Alex has asked more than once to go to a baseball game, so when Dineen had a chance to get tickets for […]

Oh, no. Tom’s MacBook Pro is a lemon, and the repair tools that shipped with it aren’t Intel-Book compatible.
This has got to be a real bummer for Tom, since I know how much he was looking forward to Lysander’s arrival. Things like this are inevitable with such a major shift in […]

Apple periodically likes to pay lip service to the idea that some law firms use Macs instead of Windows-based systems. Their recent highlight of an Atlanta firm underscores why more attorneys have resisted switching:
…the firm administrator at Gaslowitz Frankel (and Adam and Michael’s sister) collects attorneys’ billable hours and, without leaving her iMac G5, […]

I’ve upgraded Release to Wordpress 2.01 today. I expect few, if any, issues, but feel free to send feedback if anything breaks.
The new theme was a whim with the upgrade. I expect to change it before long.

This issue may not interest anyone but those of us corrupted by a legal education, but Evan Schaeffer’s Illinois Trial Practice Weblog has a link to a delicious legal nugget: a scholarly article concluding that summary judgment procedure, in which a court effectively picks a winner of the court case based on the law […]

In the 2000 presidential election, I voted for Libertarian Party candidate Harry Browne. Today we learn that Mr. Browne has died.
Browne was a champion of smaller government and larger liberty. As a presidential candidate, he brought important attention to issues that the other candidates simply wouldn’t discuss. I cannot say, […]