Email Points the Finger

April 25, 2005

It’s trite now to say that email has become the prosecutor’s best friend – e-discovery is well advanced, practitioners are experienced in dealing with it, and there is a large and sophisticated industry in IT support in this area. Christina Cavanagh and I discussed some examples of this in a Globe article she wrote in […]

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Yahoo Settles Dispute Over Deceased Marine’s Data

April 25, 2005

Yahoo has reached a settlement with the family of a deceased Marine over access to the data in his Yahoo! accounts. I originally blogged this story on December 25, and a related story soon after that. Quote: Yahoo Inc. may have resolved its dispute with a family over accessing the e-mail account of a Marine […]

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Jasmine in Nigeria

April 24, 2005

My friend Chia-yi’s sister Jasmine is on a multi-year tour of duty with CUSO in Nigeria. She’s just arrived, and one of her first steps has been to create a blog for her adventures. Given the context, it’s one of the coolest blogs I’ve seen, and I will be a regular reader. You can find […]

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A Great Quotation

April 24, 2005

My friend Steve pointed me to this terrific resource for interesting quotes: the webpage of Gabriel Robins, a CS Prof at the University of Virginia. My first favourite is the first one: “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946) I want that on a T-shirt. Thanks, Steve (and Gabriel)!

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Happiness is Healthy

April 23, 2005

Wired has a story on research linking happiness to good health. Quote: That’s what researchers at University College London’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health are interested in. They have found that the functioning of certain key biological processes is improved by happiness. “Psychosocial factors are vital to health,” said Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology […]

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E-mail Lowers Your IQ

April 23, 2005

A study of 1,100 Britons suggests that repetitive checking of e-mail reduces mental sharpness. No word on the bad teeth thing, yet. Hmmm … perhaps it’s the spam. Via Eric Mack.

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HR Tips for General Counsel

April 23, 2005

Some time ago I blogged an article on Law.com by Michael Maslanka setting out 10 steps GC’s can take to reduce risk, disputes and hopefully costs in labour and employment. I also invited Mike Fitzgibbon to wade into the discussion, but from a Canadian perspective. Boy, has he ever. Mike’s post, “12 Thoughts on Employee […]

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Thanks, Ernie

April 23, 2005

Go read Ernie today. Go now.

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More on Celphone Number Portability

April 23, 2005

I blogged yesterday about the wireless providers’ non-announcement announcement of number portability. Mark Evans is all over this (and see Tyler’s comment, too). Jack Kapica is just reprinting industry press releases.

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Is Your Shoe Spying on You?

April 23, 2005

I recently blogged the new Aviva Autograph car black box insurance program, and one of the themes I wrote about was the idea that increasingly, the objects in our lives are spying on us – now its our car – what’s next, the fridge? Tyler Hamilton and I talked about the program and he followed […]

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Canadian Wireless Providers Bid to Slow Celphone Number Portability

April 22, 2005

The Globe has the story today that the wireless providers have been quick to jump on the announcement in the last Budget concerning mandatory celphone number portability. Quicker than they were to jump on the issue originally, natch. Why, you ask? Well, when the Budget news broke, I wrote: The article also delves into the […]

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Geekboat

April 22, 2005

This is one of the oddest outsourcing stories – well, stories of any kind, I’ve read in ages: Geeks are enthralled by the story that a San Diego company called SeaCode is purchasing a cruise liner, is then going to pick up a shipload of 600 Indian coders, and park the boat in international waters […]

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