Ted Tjaden (August 20), Mark Lewis (September 3), and Shaunna Mireau (September 9 and September 14) have already posted on the McGill Law Journal's Canadian guide to uniform legal citation,… [more]
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I drift along sometimes, dreaming that maybe I can stop learning new technical things for a while and actually use a few technologies to finish some long-term projects. Then something… [more]
This story by Erika Kinetz (AP) is on Google news with an AP logo, but I'm not sure what you'd say was the most authentic source for it. I found… [more]
Susan Clairmont reports in today's Hamilton Spectator that Mark Conacher, a Toronto JP holding G20 bail hearings, banned note-taking in his court "the other day". Clairmont reports that, when challenged,… [more]
This article is about batteries that you can use to provide backup power for your laptop. The emphasis is on the two external batteries that I haved actually used: the… [more]
I decided I needed to educate myself a little when I saw Paul Lomio's post (April 26, 2010) on Legal Research Plus: "What If Law Journal Citations Included Digital Object… [more]
The 140 character limit on Twitter may be a constraint for some, but it lets others go retro.
On February 20, an antique Commodore VIC-20 (circa 1981) at the Personal… [more]
I'm anything but a specialist in this area, but I thought it would be interesting to assemble some of the relevant documentation.
Treaties:
Geneva Conventions:
Convention for the amelioration of … [more]
Simon Fodden recently quipped that Apple was becoming so mainstream that he might have to switch to Linux to keep his "smug sense of computer specialness." This reminded me that,… [more]
The Foundation for Legal Research has awarded the 2009 Walter Owen Book prize to
Bradley Crawford, The law of banking and payment in Canada… [more] (Aurora, Ont.: Canada Law Book, 2008);
This began as a comment, and then got out of hand. It is a response to Simon Fodden's post on squigglies, pilcrows, and gaspers and Gary Rodrigues' post, "The full… [more]
The deadline is approaching for nominations for the Walter Owen book prize, awarded by the Foundation for Legal Research. This $10,000 prize rewards outstanding new contributions to Canadian legal literature.… [more]
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