Mobile lawyers and clients are doing more Zoom calls these days. We can connect "in person" without leaving our desks. But, as in all photography, the lighting is the thing. If you aren't properly lit, you are a shadow of... Read more
7 Steps To Achieving InBox Zero And Staying There. There are zero messages in my InBox as I write this post. It won't stay that way, of course. For many years now, we have all transitioned our law practices into... Read more
A consortium comprising Solaris Bus & Coach, Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. and TAURON Polska Energia will implement a project titled “Second Life ESS” with the aim to create a prototype system to store electric energy based on retired electric... Read more
Prices for new light trucks—pickups, vans, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs)—averaged 43% more than new cars in 2019. From 1990 to 1995, cars had a higher average price than light trucks. With the increasingpopularity o f SUVs and high-end pickup... Read more
A screenshot from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) dashboard: This appears to show 617,571 more cases and 9,978 more deaths than were reported 24 hours ago. Read more
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment will pay $12 million to settle charges that the company failed to inform the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in a timely manner about problems with fire extinguishers made by the company. Kidde fire extinguishers with plastic handles were recalled in 2017. Read more
Binge Watch: Someone Is Creating A Comedic Neo-Noir Detective Series Shot Entirely In Second Life -- And It's Pretty Damn Cool! VRChat Peak User Concurrency Passes 40,000 -- Up From 24K Last November Jazz Musicians Quarantined Across California Experiment With... Read more
A team from Stanford University and Volkswagen Group Research in Wolfsburg, with colleagues from McMaster University in Canada, the University of Delaware, SINTEF and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have used an atomic layer deposition-facilitated electrode fabrication technique... Read more
Police Robots Are A Privacy Nightmare. When Nikki Black linked to the EFF article about the new wave of police robots, I thought, what a cute little guy. It looks like a Conehead grown up. What harm could this guy... Read more
The Absentee President To say President Trump has checked out since he lost the 2020 election is an understatement. Since the final tallies were completed, and it was clear Trump lost the election (at least in everyone’s mind but his... Read more
5 Years ago, there was a booth at CES which demonstrated rolling robots with screens to allow remote users to participate in group conversations. It occurred to me at the time that the future might include such robots being used... Read more
VanadiumCorp Resource Inc. announced that commercial development work has commenced for the first phase of key design and engineering of next-generation vanadium redox flow-battery systems (VRFB Battery) for marine propulsion applications. Phase I work will be managed by the company’s... Read more
A screenshot from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) dashboard: Last year on this date, I posted an item on "viral pneumonia with unknown cause," which had then been confirmed in Wuhan in 41 cases; just of those patients had... Read more
Goodhart's Law states when a feature of the economy is picked as an indicator of the economy, then it inexorably ceases to function as that indicator because people start to game it. Without a Macro Economics context, the Law is... Read more
Wife: "I bet he is thinking of another woman". Husband: "The Bucs had better play better defense in the Division game next week. God, I hope Devin White plays. But, at least we have Tom Brady." Read more
At NIO Day, in Chengdu, NIO launched its first autonomous driving model, the smart electric flagship sedan NIO ET7. The ET7 has a pre-subsidy price starting from RMB 448,000 (US$69,000), or from RMB 378,000 (US$58,400) with BaaS (Battery as a... Read more
Good friend and client and best detailer in Florida, Drew Lekens, of Divine Touch Detail, LLC, and his crew spent the whole day making the Coach and VW sparkle like new. It is amazing what a competent detailer can do.... Read more
I am enjoying setting up the mobile office in the RV. I have two notebook computers, a portable printer, paper and stamped envelopes, USB hub for various peripherals, such as Smartphone, Smartwatch, and Smartglasses, as well as a couple of... Read more
I love the retro cool Wayfarer Bose Smartglasses that I have been wearing for the last year and a half. Bose sound, bluetooth without anything in my ears, and never have to wonder where my earbuds are. But, the original... Read more
A screenshot from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) dashboard: Yesterday saw 812,212 cases and 14,858 deaths. Read more