Archives for the 'Technology' Category
Respect For Competition May Increase Market Share
Garr Reynolds, author of the always inspiring Presentation Zen, provides some insight this week into a subject that is definitely relevant in the construction defect litigation industry. In his somewhat lengthy post, he analyzes the nature of competition in business through the vantage point of an American consultant living in Japan. He cites some recent [...]
23 January 2007 | Business, Construction, Construction Defect, Consulting, Experts, Litigation, Technology | No Comments
Amazing HDR Image Of Tokyo Nightscape
HDR, or high dynamic range imagery is a relatively new concept that is taking the photography world by storm. These hyper-realistic images are actually composites of multiple photos or images that are combined in digital imaging software to extend the dynamic range of the subject in a manner that is similar to the way a [...]
17 January 2007 | Photography, Technology | No Comments
From Thomas Edison’s Flop To The Future Of Construction?
Frank Lloyd Wright made many contributions that have revolutionized architecture. One of the less-obvious (to most) was the use of concrete and concrete block (CMU) as a sculptural medium that truly epitomizes the whole form follows function paradigm. And somewhere along the line, a draftsman (maybe it was an architect) with a few too many [...]
16 January 2007 | Construction, Litigation, Technology | No Comments
Interior Design For Pyromaniacs
Cool Hunting, a website devoted to all manners of design excellence, has a feature on some amazing “out-of-the-hearth” fireplace designs.
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12 January 2007 | Construction, Technology | No Comments
New Electronic Discovery Rules May Mean Some Changes In The IT Department
Most people don’t even know about this. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure received a makeover that will make Sarbanes-Oxley Act seem like a paid holiday for IT staff. In a nutshell - no more excuses of “the PC ate my email”. If you are involved in a federal lawsuit (will the states follow?), you [...]
10 January 2007 | Business, Consulting, Litigation, Technology | No Comments
Outsourcing Isn’t Always Bad
From USA Today Small Business:
“Fed up with rising labor costs, a new generation of entrepreneurs is launching millions of tiny companies differing from business in the past: They don’t want employees.
“The trend, building since the late 1990s, hit a milestone this year when the number of these microbusinesses reached 20 million — one for every [...]
12 December 2006 | Business, Construction, Consulting, Litigation, Technology | No Comments
E-mail Sign-Offs And Online Etiquette
What is the proper way to end (or for that matter begin) an e-mail transmission to a business associate? The NY Times explores this sometimes confusing issue.
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27 November 2006 | Business, Consulting, General, Technology | No Comments
The Myth Of The Paperless Office
The computer age has managed to rekindle promises from old science fiction stories whereby paper will be irrelevant and all data is a few keystrokes away. Environmental issues aside, is this even possible? Maybe in some industries, but is it possible for the construction defect litigation industry? Not likely. Sometimes a “paper trail” is all [...]
10 June 2006 | Business, Consulting, Litigation, Technology | No Comments
Beware of Microsoft Word File Metadata
A little known “feature” in the de facto word processor, Microsoft Word, is the metadata that is included with each and every file. “Meta-what?!”
Metadata is bits of information that describe or define the file. Or as defined on Wikipedia, “Metadata is data about data.” OK, so maybe that doesn’t help much either. In Microsoft Word [...]
21 April 2006 | Business, Litigation, Technology | No Comments
