Category ask-the-blog

RSS Help please?

The RSS feed on this blog is broken. I don’t know how to fix it. Can anyone help? Somewhere along the way, I think when I moved from Moveable Type to WordPress, I thought it would be an awesome idea to sign up with Feedburner to handle my RSS feed. The idea, as I recall, [...]

Click with caution!

I believe there may be two or three people who actually visit this page once in a while to see if there are updates (others read on RSS, which I think is the better way). This message is for those of you who actually load the page: Don’t click on the random photo near the top of the page. It will take you to my now-retired photoblog, and then you’ll quickly be redirected to some sort of pr0n site to which you probably don’t want to go.

In search of case management

So one of the resolutions for the new year was to keep better track of what I’m doing. I don’t understand it, but I can’t escape my need to document. I should have been a journalist because I just want to record everything — images, sounds, words, and every little move I make.

Greener Grass? What do you think?

I really like my job…. It leaves much to be desired. So of course I’m interested in what the experience of being a public defender is like for people in other places, and especially what it’s like to be a newly graduated PD in other places.

Morning Question

If your water heater starts making more noise than usual—a sort of whisle-whine like wind blowing through drafty windows—does that mean it’s about to die?

Dull Boy Jack

We just had a three-day weekend…. and I both went to work every single day of that three-day weekend. Sad.I don’t know how to get all my work done in a 40-hour week, but I’m realizing I have to try harder b/c I don’t actually end up getting that much done when I go in on weekends.

MBE: How low can you go? (and still pass!)

I finally forced myself to do a full practice MBE yesterday and it confirmed what all my other practice question sessions had already indicated: If I took the test today I’d get about 60% of the questions right. That seems awful, yet I’ve heard it’s usually a passing score for the MBE once everything is scaled.

DSL Modems: Aren’t they all the same?

Question for any tech-minded readers out there: I’m trying to sign up w/Qwest for DSL service at our new house. We had DSL w/Verizon at our old place so I still have the DSL modem that Verizon made us rent/buy. Qwest tells me I have to have one of the modems on their list of compatible modems, but I don’t want to buy another modem.

Pre-prep bar issues: Are books enough?

Montana appears to have a similar passage rate to most other states—about 80% (PDF).

Loan Consolidation Time again

Interest rates are going up again July 1 so if you’ve got student loans you might want to consolidate. Of course, if you have student loans, I’m sure your lender has made sure you know all about consolidation—perhaps much more than you ever wanted to know. ((Access Group must have called me a dozen times before I finally told them that if they called me one more time I would go elsewhere to consolidate.