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Dropbox: Perfect Backup and Sync Solution for Law Students

Red Leader — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:48:04 +0000

As a law student in the digital age there are few things more precious to us than our laptops. With a lone exam eventually determining a semester’s worth of blood, sweat and tears, a few tragedies have befallen my brethren to inspire this post. In two cases there were stolen laptops and there was [...]

Repost Due to Error: Syracuse University – Second Year – Semester 2 Outlines

Red Leader — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:04:12 +0000

Alas, law school is nearing an end for me. 3L year is right around the corner. Le weep, Le sigh. Sadly, I don’t have much to offer you guys in terms of outlines this time around…sorry. Professional Responsibility Rabin – Spring 09 Book: Gillers Outline (Mostly complete) [PDF] Issue Walkthrough [PDF] List of Giller Problems [PDF] Trademark and Unfair Competition Law Rochford – [...]

Repost due to Error: Cables are Cheaper on Ebay! Stop Buying from Retailers!

Red Leader — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:00:48 +0000

Cables are probably the most ridiculous expense for modern home entertainment. I recently purchased a fabulous 40′ screen, my first HD experience, and so as to pwn n00bs in full HD I sought an HDMI Cable. And of course I went straight to the XBOX section of Best Buy to find that the Microsoft Brand [...]

31 Actors Better than Nicholas Cage

Red Leader — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:06:02 +0000

They say that when Chuck Palahniuk was writing Fight Club his foundation was based off the late nights of debauchery and drunken rants he shared with his friends. I don’t intend to write any sort of novel, but I am willing to share a late night rant. A dear friend of mine at one [...]

Help Me! Quicksilver is so slow with Snow Leopard!

Red Leader — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:13:01 +0000

Since my upgrade I’ve been having the worst experience with Quicksilver. I’ve updated as recommended on the compatibility thread on the Google Code page, but it’s awful now. Launching anything now takes a few seconds for it to even come up and if I use a custom search it’s even worse. That which made Quicksilver my [...]

I’ve got the Fever and the only cure is more feeds!

Red Leader — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:58:23 +0000

UPDATE: Major Complaint! When you get up to say 400+ feeds it gets ass fuck slow coming off your server. Especially, on Bluehost. I’m not sure what my plan is with them, but it’s not the highest. I don’t really need the bandwidth…no one reads my blog ;( Otherwise I still like it. Thursday; [...]

Using a Second Blog as a Digital Archive? Brilliant!

Red Leader — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:27:21 +0000

I know what you’re thinking…”He doesn’t even post to this blog.” Just give me a second to explain. Since the dawn of the Internet I’ve been passed dozens of links. From Dancing Bananas to Guys giving Free Hugs, and I, in turn, have sent out my share. But after that first connection and dispersal, I will [...]

Don’t Buy Black’s Law Dictionary! It’s in the Public Domain! Free!

Red Leader — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:21:43 +0000

My 1L year of law school left me with a dozen books that I have yet to open since, in some cases, the first couple weeks of class. Black’s Law Dictionary is one of them. Granted every so often, but not often enough. Pretty much a staple in terms of pocket reference. The book has been [...]

Starting Lawschool with Leopard? App and setup suggestions for 1Ls

Red Leader — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:45:39 +0000

I was a little inspired by Merlin Mann’s run through of his desktop and thought I might do one of my own. Perhaps in a series of steps. So here is a brief intro to my desktop and the apps I use just on the surface. A way of passive information flow, granted the setup [...]

A Few Examples of Not-so-bad Fan Fiction

Red Leader — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:56:59 +0000

Fan fiction, I find, almost always sucks. I can appreciate the inspiration a film or book may give a person to go out and write a series of stories where Neo travels to Hoth to slay Voldemort for kidnapping Lara Croft, but ultimately fails because she’s stolen away onto the Black Pearl and on to [...]

A Black Day for The Pirate Bay…They sell out

Red Leader — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:49:14 +0000

“This Monday the relatively unknown Global Gaming Factory (GGF) announced that it will acquire The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million. Provided that the shareholders agree and that GGF manages to raise the necessary funding to complete the sale, The Pirate Bay will be in new hands. Undoubtedly, this announcement resulted in a tidal wave of [...]

Money Saving Tip #1: Scrap Cable and Get Netlfix

Red Leader — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:22:18 +0000

The gift of Netflix keeps on giving. My mother spends roughly 60 bucks a month on cable for her weekly tryst with ‘Dancing with the Stars‘ and so she can watch a movie every so often. In my mind that doesn’t equate to me the 60 dollars, especially in such a penny pinching time. Solution: I’ve been wanting [...]

Last Guardian, finally something worth buying a PS3 for!

Red Leader — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:33:02 +0000

The PS3 has been around for sometime now and I think even owners are slightly disappointed with what they have available to them in terms of great games, but now I’m convinced. I’ll be joining the ranks of dissatisfied PS3 owners this year when the developers of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, release their [...]

An Existential Crisis: Cutting Out The Distractions

Red Leader — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:44:50 +0000

Post undergrad and out in the work place, I became overwhelmed with the things that I owned. I didn’t absolutely need most of my things and I had been convinced, some how, that I did. I wanted to see the world and I couldn’t. Within months, I sold all my things and moved to NYC [...]

RSS – An Intro and a Suggestion – Part 1

Red Leader — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:12:40 +0000

The problem RSS tries to solve. In the real world beyond my 13.3 inch portal, the New York Times arrives once a day. Sad face. And where a reader ignores anything more than the comics, the rest of the paper is waste. For the reader, yesterday’s news involves an active search on your part, finding an [...]

IST 500 Social Media where you at?

Red Leader — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:17:29 +0000

So I would like to give a shout out to my fellow IST 500 participants. It should concern the world a great deal that students from around the United States are now getting a formal education in Facebook, Twitter and the like. Rather than create a blog, I’ve been trying for sometime to keep this [...]

DD-WRT provides better thoroughput than proprietary firmware on a Linksys Pre-N Router

Red Leader — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:25:26 +0000

**This is a Group Graduate Student Paper written to cap a Wireless Networking course at Syracuse University – citations and better images to be added later ** Current State Open source firmware has been a popular alternative for enthusiasts and IT professionals looking to improve the capabilities of SOHO routers beyond proprietary standards. Despite having become popular [...]

EDIT: Indie Vids defining my life! Part 1

Red Leader — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:25:41 +0000

This was an accidental post. Marsedit now sees Tumblr blogs and apparently it needs some help distinguishing from one site to another. I try to keep my goofy fun posts to my Tumblr Redleader.Heavytext, but sometimes…just sometimes..there’s an outlier that wonders this a way. Despite that little problem, I thought I’d make this post [...]

Songbird: An Apology….Thanks for the Mac Extensions and more

Red Leader — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:46:24 +0000

An open apology goes to the Songbird Community for looking out for me. You haven’t wronged me. I was foolish to toss aside such a project that so early in its development actually carries a lot of the needs that say…Itunes would do for software user. - Valuable Extensions - Apple Keyboard Media Key Support – I [...]

Weatherdock – It’s Free and Far Less Annoying than Weatherbug

Red Leader — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:15:52 +0000

I want to share a memory with you. Since the first semester of my first year, this is what my life has looked like. (For the sake of context I just ran up 5 flights of stairs. I’m not built for that sort of athletics. I am out of breath) Let’s look back shall we? Today, [...]