Habit Building

Habit building is one of the hardest things to do for me. Lots of times, I find myself deeply acknowledging the fact that developing or breaking a habit will be good for me – excellent for me. But then after 1-2 weeks, I stop. I can typically attribute it to discouragement or laziness. The bottom [...]

Just DLd… Pidgin

How many instant message programs do you have? I would be surprised if your list included AIM, MSN, Google Talk (a.k.a Gmail/Gchat), Yahoo! Messenger, and maybe even the classic ICQ. Sometimes managing all of these programs at once can be a bit difficult, so developers have made all-in-one programs from where you can control all [...]

I’ma Do Numbers

I was talking with a friend of mine about careers in law. I asked the following, “If you’re not going to a Tier One law school, is it even worth all the debt you carry?” My whole premise was that the highest paying jobs go only to students who attend the Top 200 law schools. [...]

Bring Back the del.icio.us of Old

Web 2.0 is all about rounded corners, web-based applications, and social networking and sharing. I stumbled upon this phenomenon in 2004, primarily due to a website called del.icio.us.
del.icio.us is a web-based service that allows you to save, tag, and share publicly (or privately) your bookmarks from anywhere. It’s a really useful idea for people [...]

Grinding…

People told me that law school was a grind – like a I have no life grind. And I think they were right.
Law school is a grind. First-year law school definitely robs you of all those hours, minutes, and seconds of idle time that undergrad gave away so easily.  Of course, you end up finding [...]

The Lone Dissenter

So I’m slowly getting used to reading stuff about the law… for fun. I had tried to read about legal issues for enjoyment, but it just didn’t work out before I got to law school.
Well, now I’m here, and I really did enjoy the (extra long) New York Times article about Justice Stevens experience and [...]