Archive for July, 2009

Bar Exam

There. That’s over. It’ll be three months before I know if I passed.

Facebook Ads

Check your Facebook privacy settings, if you use it. Apparently by default Facebook allows your profile photo to be used by 3rd party adver­tisers to promote services to your friends. Facebook sez, “Don’t mind us, we’re just whoring out your photos” You can turn this off by logging into Facebook using Internet Explorer (Firefox will not work) and clicking “Privacy Settings” under the “Settings” dropdown in the top right corner, selecting “News Feed & Wall” settings, and clicking on the “Facebook Ads” tab at the top. Update: According to this source, photos aren’t available to 3rd party adver­tisers after all. Maybe.

Harry Potter & the Half-​​Blood Prince

Spoilers. I did take time out of my absurd schedule to go see Harry Potter & the Half-​​​​Blood Prince at midnight on Wednesday. Which reminds me how irri­tating it is when I go buy a ticket for “12:00am Tuesday” for a 12:00am Wednesday showing. That people and movie theatres cannot figure out the midnight thing confuses and infu­riates me. I know movie theatres count midnight showings as part of the business day preceding, but one would think that in today’s glorious age of fancy computers ticketing and revenue software could be programmed to handle this crap in a more sensible way. The movie. Hm. Looking [ . . . ]

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Still gone, but with a request

I’ve been so very busy. Graduating from law school, then preparing for the bar. The bar is in a week and a half (last Tues-​​​​Thurs in July) and I’m starting to feel the stress. I’m also just now in the middle of a house move which must be completed by the day after the last day of the bar exam, so that’s a bit stress-​​​​inducing there, too. So I’m still going to be gone for a while. I hope in August to get up to one post a week again, and we’ll see how it goes. In the meanwhile, I need to figure out how to use this “twitter” [ . . . ]

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