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Entries from May 2008

Law Blogs Without RSS Feeds

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Every once in a while, I’ll come across a law blog that does not have an RSS feed. The problem isn’t that their blog software doesn’t support RSS feeds. Instead, these bloggers have gone out of their way to disable their feed. I don’t get it.
The entire point of blogging, I thought, [...]

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Tags: blog · technology

I Love Arial

May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I came across a website for a court clerk. The site looks fine on Internet Explorer, but is absolutely unreadable on Firefox or Safari. For some reason, the designer wanted to use Edwardian Script, which was specified in a broken font tag. Internet Explorer ignored the broken tag, so the website was [...]

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Tags: web design

County Advises to Disable Pop-Up Blocker

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m came across a website for a county this afternoon. At first, I tried to click on some of the links in the navigation, but that didn’t work. Then, I noticed the the warning at the bottom of the page:
Some links on this web page/site will be blocked if you have a “pop-up [...]

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Tags: technology

Offshore Tax Havens

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The IRS is conducting an investigation to determine the tax liabilities of US taxpayers who have signature authority over bank accounts at or over American Express, MasterCard, or Visa credit, debit or charge cards issued by banks or other financial institutions in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman [...]

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Tags: criminal law · tax