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Excel At Working from Home

January 25, 2010

Although I think having an office fosters success, I still do about 25% of my work from home. Whether you choose to work at home, or need to work at home, try a couple of these tips to make the experience a success.

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Laptops in the Law School Classroom

January 16, 2010

Laptops and the internet may have changed how law students prepare for class and do research, but most professors stick to the Socratic method of teaching. Despite this, students use laptops during class, and whether this is a hindrance or an advantage is a contentious subject.
Some students furiously write down everything the professor says and [...]

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Faceoff: Apple Macbook v. Lenovo ThinkPad T400 v. Dell Precision M2400

April 22, 2009

My old ThinkPad T43 is dead and I have been shopping for a new laptop. I value three things above all: portability, durability, and performance. I take my laptops everywhere, so they need to be thin and light. That means they also take a lot of abuse. And I like to keep my laptops for [...]

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Death of a ThinkPad

April 17, 2009

I am sad to report that my ThinkPad has died. Or rather it is in the midst of its dying throes at the moment. The hard drive is crunching away like a pepper grinder while I attempt to nuke the remaining data before recycling it.
I am hard on my laptops. I took my ThinkPad everywhere, [...]

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Help me pick out a new laptop

April 5, 2009

I am in the market for a new laptop/netbook. My current Gateway is more than three years old. It works okay, but it is too big, too heavy, and it is slowly falling apart.
I hope to replace it in the next month, but need some help selecting what my next laptop/netbook should be. [...]

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Encryption: do it when you travel

August 1, 2008

The Department of Homeland Security just disclosed its official policy on laptop seizures. It says it can and will take laptops of foreigners and U.S. Citizens for as long as it wants, for whatever it wants.
How can they get away with this? Because an out-of-touch judiciary says so. Border agents can search laptops without any [...]

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Lenovo’s new ThinkPads coming soon!

July 23, 2008

I am a huge ThinkPad fan. The MacBook Pro may be sexier, but if you shot a ThinkPad and a MacBook Pro out of cannons at each other, the ThinkPad would destroy the MacBook Pro and still boot up the pre-installed SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (or Vista, I guess, if you swing that way) in [...]

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Macs are awfully tempting

July 3, 2008

We bought my wife a Macbook a couple of weeks ago after she finally agreed that her broken-screened, dead-USB, no-battery laptop was nearly unusable. (Most of those conditions were my fault, albeit by accident.) So we picked up a $1,099 white Macbook.
My wife is not a technophobe, but she is no geek, either. She was [...]

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FIRE DRILL! How secure are your files?

May 21, 2008

Imagine any of the following scenarios:

You returned to your office this morning to find it had burned to the ground overnight. You cannot salvage anything but a few crispy bits of your pencil sharpener.
Someone swiped your laptop on the train this morning while you were on your way to work. Nobody seems to have seen [...]

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IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads: then and now (then was better than now)

May 16, 2008

A story of my love for my old laptop, an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T43, and my disappointment with the “updated” version, the Lenovo T61
I bought my ThinkPad T43 in August 2005. I love this computer. It is thin, light, powerful, and tough as nails. It may not be as pretty as an iBook or MacBook, but [...]

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