Thought for the day (from a web design company’s materials):

“pay peanuts, you get monkeys”

But my thought, based on their prices:

CMS website for £8 to £15,000? Seems like you could get a better deal with finding a theme developer for WordPress or Drupal to code you up something SEO friendly (or buy a pre-built theme such as Thesis).

At the moment includes two computers as I transfer from files and programs from one computer to my new computer for my new job (a MBP!).

I’ve been thinking about security lately, especially given that I’ve switched office environments. I went from a home office to to working at a serviced office suite — one that is also used by a group of people. While the individual room I’m in has a great group of people (several from other companies) and the room is key card controlled, I still would feel more comfortable locking my screen somehow when I get up for a few minutes to stretch my legs or get a cup of coffee or a bite to eat.

I’m often running some sort of program that I don’t want to stop, hence just shutting the lid of my (new!) MacBook Pro won’t cut it. Luckily Mac OSX Hints from MacWorld has a some hints on how to do just that:

Quickly lock your screen

The other solution I’ve been using is iAlertU, which is like a car alarm for the mac and also locks the screen. If moved, the motion sensor kicks off, it snaps a pic with the built-in iSight, and makes loud noises. And it is controlled by the remote that comes with the MBP.

Via Mac OSX hints:

Use MobileMe push email with any email address

MobileMe is the new .Mac

For US based customers, AT&T Mobility will offer the new iPhone without a 2 year contract for $599 for an 8GB and $699 for a 16GB. [Link - No-contract iPhone on the way]. But the article reports that the iPhone would still be locked to the AT&T network — so some sort of Jailbreak would be needed for those looking to buy and use a different carrier.

In the UK, it looks like o2, the exclusive iPhone carrier, will have a Pay-as-you-go option for the 3G iPhone as well. [Link o2 PAYG iPhone page].

InfoWorld reports that the next version of OSX — codenamed Snow Leopard — will have more of an enterprise focus. [LINK - Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Apple's secret business weapon?]. This ties in with more enterprise support for the new iPhone 3G, to be released on 11 July 2008. Snow Leopard is predicted for summer 2009.

After way too long of a break, posting will start up again…

From the site:

This raises interesting issues concerning putting a price on an IP practice — an option that a sole practitioner may want to consider when either implementing an exit strategy or going in with another firm. Obviously it’s not possible to know the details that drove the valuation in this instance, but it would be good to hear from readers who have had to put a value on their practices recently.

Are there any special considerations to practice valuation for an IP practice that others don’t have?

The ABA journal has a piece on Mac versus PC in the law office.

This year the ABA Journal is letting some real advocates argue the case. Ben Stevens and Rick Georges are not only lawyers using opposing systems; they are proponents who advise on the use of technology in the law office.

The debate covers lots of aspects of the mac/pc option, and good for those thinking about a switch.

Ever have a blogspot or blogger blog you want to subscribe to via your favorite feed reader, but the blog owner hasn’t made the feed available via a link? Often blogspot/blogger users will set their blog to allow for RSS, but will forget that they have to create a link on their homepage.

Since blogspot/blogger is standardized, you can just add a bit of code to the URL to see their feed even if there is no link to it from their homepage:

http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogspot.com/
http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogger.com/

Add “feeds/posts/default” to get the atom 1.0 feed

http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

And add ?alt=rss to the end of that to get the RSS 2.0 file

http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Also, your browser window will often indicate whether a feed is present in the top, next to the URL. You can set this in your browser preferences to open this link to your feed reader of preference.

Also, for those of you with a blog, make sure you have links for your feeds!