Green Grads Archives: January 2009
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29 January 2009
Tech Tips: Booko
This is an article about the shop-assistant service, Booko (and this sentance is just an excuse to insert a link in the header)
Perhaps one of the most frustrating things about the ‘back to school’ phase of semester (ie. the first three or four weeks) revolves around textbooks and bookshops.
I have never worked at a bookstore, [...]
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24 January 2009
When Harry Met Lese Majeste
Earlier this week ex-concierge, journalist and failed Australian novelist Harry Nicolaides was sentenced to spend the next three years in a dank, crowded cell where he’ll be forced to eat bad curry and share a soiled toilet-hole with 60-odd men. Nicolaides was found guilty of breaching Thailand’s Constitutionally-endorsed lese majeste law… Looking like a junkie AIDS-victim, Nicolaides faced his accusers in chains and pled guilty to the charge of disparaging Thailand’s royal family
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20 January 2009
Tuesday Transcript: John Mortimer (1923-2009)
In an issue of the Australian Law Journal a few years ago ((2004) 78 ALJ 295 at 303), Justice Young passed on a story submitted by a reader, about an English judge. His Honour explained that the contribution
… depends on English accents in which the |æ| and |Λ| of Received Pronunciation have pulled in the [...]
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15 January 2009
Tech Tips: Google Goodies #3 – Google Docs
If there is just one thing I want to achieve by writing this series it would be to convince law school students to start collaborating with Google Docs.
Google Docs is part of the Google Suite of programs (along with GMail, Google Reader and others) that by now people should be embracing. They’re not new, but [...]
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13 January 2009
Tuesday Transcript: What’s that smell?
A new year, and a fresh start — and hopefully breathing fresh air, unlike Judge Staffier-Holtz in Massachusetts last year:
There was a juror seated in seat No. 10, juror 6-5 … who I’d made inquiry of earlier. And I just want the record to reflect, I guess, to be blunt, [the juror], for whatever reason, [...]
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10 January 2009
Corporate Cavemen #3
Most days at work, Dick encounters behaviour so awkward, strange or downright repulsive he spews in his mouth a little. These are his stories.
“The first time I got instructions from Dr Octagon, I felt like I was in special-education. In the Hitler Youth.”
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10 January 2009
Them’s legal words!
Knowing about words and how to use them is one of the most basic skills a lawyer needs. Because if rights are not outlined properly (or clearly enough) in a contract, the parties to that contract will be in big trouble. While the litigators who have clean up the mess might be glad to have more work, the lawyer responsible will have egg on his or her face.
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9 January 2009
Tech Tips: Taking Notes #1 – Word
Ok, so I was originally going to start the ‘Taking Notes’ series off by going with the straight up pen and paper. But then, how much is there to say about taking notes with a pen and paper? It’s not really a topic for technological wilfdire, so I’ll skip it for the moment.
If you’re not [...]
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1 January 2009
Tech Tips: Google Goodies #2 – Google Reader
I hope everyone enjoyed seeing in the new year last night. Out of sympathy for sore heads, this Tech Tips update is deliberately shorter. So, Google Reader, what is it and why should you care.
Google Reader
Google Reader is part of the Google suite of free web applications (part of the ‘web 2.0′ phenomenon) which, in [...]
