Archive for February, 2003
And in other news…
Lawyers are finding that Brobeck’s dissolution is going to dog them for a while:
Partners may not only lose their capital contributions — typically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — but could be forced to fork over additional money to pay off the firm’s current debt of approximately $55 million. In addition, partners also may […]
The spoils of Brobeck…
As summarized in Hildebrandt Headlines:
As Brobeck Phleger & Harrison closes its doors today, many of its lawyers have already found new homes. Approximately 60 partners are joining Morgan Lewis & Bockius, which is allowing them to defer putting in capital for two years. A group of 18 corporate lawyers from Brobeck’s Silicon Valley office are […]
Illinois primary moving up?
Courtesy of MyDD.com is this nugget, suggesting that Arizona and Illinois may become more important in the Democratic primaries.
With the very real possibility of the field rising to double digits (Lieberman, Kerry, Gephardt, Dean, Edwards, Moseley-Braun, Sharpton, Kucinich, Hart, Graham, Clark, Dodd, and Biden), it will be good to broaden the field to those that […]
Drinks in London
No pictures, but had a great evening over beers with Matt Mower and Roger Turner in London. Roger knows more about Radio than I’ll ever know, and Matt continues to impress with his goals related to liveTopics and some soon-to-be-announced things he’s kicking around with Paolo.
Meeting people like this is by far the best aspect […]
Now CNN is in on the survey…
I’m watching CNN International in my hotel room, and now they’re giving coverage to the “brand of the year” farce that I pointed out a few hours ago. “Respondents from 72 countries were asked…” They’re referring to this survey at Brandchannel.com – and BrandChannel explains their “methodology” (ahem) thusly:
For the purposes of brandchannel’s Readers’ Choice […]
I’ve got a great idea for an ad…
Sweet Jesus – if you watched the Super Bowl and were mystified by that dumb jeans ad, well, Dooce explains it all for you. Absolutely hysterical.
And if you didn’t see it and want to see Dooce’s brilliant ad brought to life, well, go ahead.
Statistically useless survey produces odd results…
Google Finds Brand Power. The search king finished ahead of such names as Coca-Cola and Starbucks for world’s top brand. [The Motley Fool]
In other words, an insiginificant polling sample with an indeterminate number of people from unknown backgrounds voted on a subject. And from this, we get “world’s top brand”? Please.
For a more, uh, legitimate […]
Tanks at Heathrow for first time in 9 years
Army Scimitar armoured vehicles patrol terminal 4 of London’s Heathrow airport, February 11, 2003. Britain drafted hundreds of troops into Heathrow airport and other key sites around London on Tuesday as a precaution against possible al Qaeda attacks during the Muslim festival of Eid. (source: REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid)
Did I mention I’m in London?
Treo hack request
Now that I’m in the UK, I have my first chance to test out my Treo. It’s a GSM phone, so it works internationally (which is great). One annoyance though – I need to dial a + before any U.S. number, and I need to drop the country code for any local (UK) numbers.
Any chance […]
If you’re using Mac OSX and IE…
… could you please verify that this blog loads properly and displays black text on a white background? I got an e-mail yesterday from someone who is seeing black text on a blue background (they’re using IE 5.x and confirmed it on both OSX and OS9).
It would appeear to be a CSS deficiency in IE […]
