20 Years A Lawyer

Twenty years ago, I stood as a freshly shaven 25-year-old, raised my right hand, and got sworn in to the California State Bar with absolutely no clue what I was getting myself into. I thought on this anniversary, I’d share a bit how I…

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Tuning Touch ID

A few weeks ago Dr. Drang wrote about the deteriorating accuracy of TouchID on his iPhone 5s. I wasn’t experiencing the problem but, because I am thick, I decided to retrain TouchID on my phone anyway. Now, touch ID is slow for me and…

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Eroding Privacy

Imagine the outrage if 50 years ago we discovered the government was making a copy of every letter we sent. Maybe they’d say they weren’t actually reading the copies but instead just keeping them in a safe place (perhaps in that box behind the ark of…

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Jason’s Dr. Who Guide

For the last six months, I’ve been slowly working through the five seasons of the BBC’s Merlin on Netflix. It is campy and fun and, for most episodes, easy to watch while I’m doing some other low-bandwidth tasks. However, I’ve just got two episodes left and…

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