Category Archives: Odds and Ends

 

April 16th, 2007

And The Boston Marathon Is Off And Running….


This has nothing to do with New York Personal Injury Law. But I’m a runner, and this is my blog, so that’s that.

The nor’easter that deluged New York yesterday is swamping Boston today for the 111th running of the race.

At the marathon start, wind gusts hitting 50 pmh. Much of the staging area is underwater. Temps in the 40s and heavy rain predicted.

It’s going to be epic. There’s nothing like a foul weather run to put the zest back in your step (that’s me on a trail run, at right).

May the winds be at their backs…

 

April 10th, 2007

Take Me Out To The Ballgame…


As Blawg Review #103 ran the bases yesterday with a weekly recap of the posts in the legal blogosphere, some of my brothers and I hit Shea Stadium for the home opener (that’s me on the left).

Completely missing from the recap, however, is a discussion of how the upper reaches of Shea can be the coldest place on earth in April (though beating the Phillies 11-5 helped).

We’re talkin’ baseball
Kluzuski Campanella
Talkin’ baseball
The man and Bobby Fella
The Scooter, the Barber, and the Newc
They knew them all from Boston to Dubuque
Especially Willie, Mickey, and the Duke.

 

March 18th, 2007

Blawg Review #100 Is Up


Blawg Review #100 is up a day early at Blawg Review, created by the anonymous Editor. It is a spectacular compilation of posts from around the legal blogosphre from prior Blawg Review hosts, and a few from future ones.

On a related note, I’m pleased to announce I will be a future host in November as I approach my 1st year blogiversary.

 

March 12th, 2007

New York Personal Injury Law Blog Is Back

The servers for my hosting service were knocked off line yesterday. I’m back. To stay. I hope.

Update: And here is the reason, from Computer Business Review Online:

The Go Daddy Group Inc has been hit by a massive distributed denial of service attack that took down many of its customers’ websites and other services for several hours.

The company, the largest registrar of internet domain names and one of the largest web hosting providers, said it was the subject of “large-scale, sophisticated attacks” that lasted four to five hours.

….

Warner declined to speculate on the motive for the attack. His team is poring over packet captures to see if they can determine the source or motivation.

He may not want to speculate on the motive, but I will. It’s called vandalism. There are people in this world who break windows or scribble graffiti because they think it is fun. I don’t think it’s too much more complicated than that. Whether high tech or low, a vandal is a vandal.