Tuesday - 15 April, 2008NanotechnologyDid you know there was an Australian Office of Nanotechnology? It has a strategy which commenced in July 2007 Key initiatives within the strategy are: * a state-of-the-art atomic force microscope for the National Measurement Institute (NMI) to provide new calibration service for nanoscale standards in Australia; * a Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Working Group to coordinate regulatory issues relating to nanotechnology; and * a Public Awareness and Engagement Program. You can find out more about the Office and the Strategy ... Monday - 17 March, 2008Click-wrap agreements and consentnic.suzor has a couple of interesting posts exploring the different ramifications for enforceability of shrink-wrap and click-wrap agreements: if clicking on "I Agree" is characterised as signing the contract, it looks like you will be stuck with all the terms but, if it is "just" conduct leading to an inference of acceptance, then the ticket cases may apply and the "vendor" may have to show that it has taken reasonable steps to bring specific "surprising" clauses to your attention ... Tuesday - 16 October, 2007RFID chip implantsIn 2004, the US FDA approved an RFID tag for use in humans. RFID = radio frequency identification device and has lots of applications in security and tracking. California has now passed a law prohibiting employers from implanting the devices in their employees ... Friday - 30 March, 2007Working BetterDennis Kennedy, amongst other things,
blogs on how we could be using technology better to practise
law.
Recently, he had a number of posts on document assembly technology (including a link to a wonderful online demonstration of the potential) and things you can do with Firefox to assist in surfing the web more easily ... Wednesday - 24 May, 2006The New World of WorkWell, that's what Bill Gates calls
it.
Dennis Kennedy has a link to Bill Gates' thoughts on where technology will be in 10 years' time and some of his own thoughts ... Friday - 10 March, 2006What to do about meta data?via Between Lawyers, link to a massive
collection of links about meta data and lawyers ...
Wednesday - 25 January, 2006Word, metadata and pdfsIf you just asked "What is meta data?" or
thought "I'll just convert my Word document to a pdf", you should read
on.
But, if you don't believe me, ask yourself how you would feel (or, worse, what could happen to your client's interests or your PI) if the "other side" could look at that nice clean final document you just sent them and ascertain what bits you deleted from an earlier draft or added in at the last minute ... Tuesday - 25 October, 2005iTunes Music Store DownUnderAs Matt Swinn kindly points out in his
note, after all the whining I've done about not being able to buy some
music online from an iTunes Music Store ...
Thursday - 13 October, 2005Living on a desert islandIf you're into technology you have
probably heard about the new generation iPods and you must certainly have come
across all the bleating about no iTunes Music Store in Australia, but did you
hear about iTunes 6.0 released at the same time as the new iPods
...
Thursday - 29 September, 2005More on (f)EULAsFEULAs I hear you ask? Ed Foster over at
The Gripe
Log (in the USA) has started a very interesting project - a model
Fair
End User Licence Agreement but matters don't end there ...
Wednesday - 28 September, 2005Where's your IT at?Dennis Kennedy is trying to get you
interested in 4th Generation legal technology ...
Tuesday - 16 August, 2005Perhaps you should have a tablet, not a laptopFor the positive side of what you can do,
see 4 Tips for Improving Tasks at Work.
Friday - 29 July, 2005How to use Word?I do use Word as I have lots of clients
who like to play lets swap electronic documents and (1) you put things in so
that we can take them out and (2) we'll put things in so that you can take them
out but, more than that, it is also a very good, albeit very complicated,
word processor.
Want some tips on how to make some of its features work (or use it better)? Saturday - 18 June, 2005Fish EULAEd Foster's Gripelog brings us news of a
very fishy EULA indeed.
Thursday - 26 May, 2005Way cooooool!You know how a search in Austlii for a
defined term (like party's name or "balance of convenience") brings up those
strange URLs with % and "search" etc. and, worse, every occurrence of the term
in the text of the case is Bold and surrounded by annoying arrows? Wouldn't it
be cool if you could click a button and you could get a plain, vanilla display
that you could print off and hand up in court?
Friday - 20 May, 2005A2K: (Access to Knowledge)On 9 May 2005, the Consumer Project on
Technology (CPTech.org) has released a draft Treaty on
Access to Knowledge.
Sunday - 15 May, 2005RSS feeds and tabbed browsingI've been asked a few times now, what is
RSS?
Wednesday - 11 May, 2005ReadyTalkEver had one of those frustrating
experiences where the people on the other end of the telephone conference are
looking a document and you think you're looking at the same document, but it
turns out your not or you're looking at the wrong page or they make a change to
it and you wish you could see what they've
written?
Turns out, you can. |