Paul Jacobson

Category: Creative expression

  • The new Google Plus design looks a little like Facebook's Timeline

    You’ve probably started seeing tweets and posts about the new Google+ design. It’s live on my profile and this is what it looks like for me: The new Google+ design feels a little claustrophobic. The top and left bars seem to make the middle panel that much smaller. I also can’t help but notice the…

  • How should I type webtechlaw?

    I picked up a small issue with the way I type web.tech.law’s name. When I type it as “web.tech.law”, word processors recognise it as a Web address and I am constantly removing the links. My logo is styled more like “web|tech|law” but I’m not sure how the “|” character is recognised and displayed in different…

  • The Great Office Photo Wall debate

    My wife and I are having a debate about my planned photo wall in my new office which I move into later this month. The idea is to have one wall in my office and one in Nastassja‘s office which will have photos relevant to what we’re doing. My thinking behind the wall in my…

  • When lawyers kill fairies

    A fairy dies every time lawyers create documents that look as dense as this. And yes, we’re partly to blame for the fairy population devastation by participating in this madness. I’m resisting the urge to totally reformat this document …

  • RUIN: An incredible animated short film you must watch

    I just watched this awesome animated short-film titled “RUIN” by Oddball Studios and its a post-apocalyptic film which looks a lot like a Terminator movie featuring a disguised Keanu Reeves lookalike. The animation is incredible and the film is under 10 minutes. Watch in HD if you can.

  • Seeing the stars from the International Space Station

    This is a striking view from the ISS. Two things stand out for me. The first is how many more stars you can see from space and the second is that bubble around our planet, out atmosphere.

  • Weird rendering issues in Firefox on my @squarespace site

    I noticed some off rendering issues in Facebook when I view this site in Firefox (pretty much the last few versions), compared to Chrome. This is what this site looks like in Chrome: This is what the site looks like in Firefox (I’m running the stable version 11): I notice 2 issues in Firefox’s rendering.…

  • How to upload 80GB in a day with the help of a friendly ISP

    I have a lot of photos I have been backing up to the cloud for a long time. I use a few services to backup my essential data: Dropbox for all my documents (I upgraded to a 50GB account this year); I use Picasa to backup photo albums as I go (I upgraded my Google…