http://usefulinfo.org/journal Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:55:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not inclined to blog. I am, for one thing, perplexed by the number of private-life details that folks reveal in their blogs and worried that I'll end up doing the same thing. I remain concerned, but I'm realizing that a blog will be an efficient, although impersonal, ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/5 A week's worth of relocation errands has sapped my energy a lot more than I could have expected. Some of these have involved a government agency and waiting in line, something that I would not have enjoyed one bit four years ago. But now that I've gone through law school, ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/6 I have a grant to research "public legal education," or "PLE," in Canada. A lot of people have asked me just exactly what "PLE" is and just exactly what kind of research I'm doing of it. These same people are also interested to know what in the hell I'm ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/7 The other day I wrote about public/community legal education and the administrative errands I was running all last week. One thing that I didn't get to was signs. From the first day that I entered Canada for my fellowship year, travelling across southeastern British Columbia and then slowly north ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/8 Yesterday afternoon I went to watch the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which is in a short session right now primarily to consider a spending bill. But yesterday afternoon was the one afternoon during this short session that private members' bills would be considered, and Progressive Conservative MLA Ted Morton ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/9 Although the U.S. Department of State has given me thousands of USD primarily to do research here, I am allowed to leave my office and try to mix in with the Candian natives. Moreover, State even had the foresight to give me some helpful "Tips for Safety," which ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/10 Yesterday I switched on---for the first time---the TV that's in the furnished Edmonton apartment I somehow managed to get, and I saw a guy in a robe and a wing collar with tabs standing at a podium and talking about a statute. In a few moments there was ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/11 At the end of a recent entry here, I asked whether the legal system isn't perhaps just "a small circle of people on the playground making up new rules for the basketball game going on nearby, then waiting with grins for someone to do something wrong without even knowing it." ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/12 Unless I get killed, do something very stupid, or miss my flight to Boise, I will soon join the world's most consistently detested profession. All that's between me and a license to practice law is my swearing that, among a few other things, I "will never reject, for any consideration ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/13 It's my first full week of full-time research, and I've been spending some grueling hours coalescing with my laptop, a web-based citation manager, and the NEOS Library Consortium's catalogue. The University of Alberta Libraries, a part of the NEOS Consortium, hold what are very possibly the world's largest archives ... http://usefulinfo.org/journal/archives/14