These are a few notes from CALIcon 2026, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan in early June. This was my first CALIcon, and I’ll definitely be back; lots of practical takeaways, new ideas, and plenty of fun too. The session recordings …
The Problem In a recent case involving AI-hallucinated citations, the attorney responsible for the hallucinations accidentally made an excellent point: when a generative AI tool makes up citations in a proprietary format, it’s difficult or impossible to verify them without …
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I’m a devotee of the Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity method, which emphasizes regular review of your systems and tasks to make sure everything’s up to date and tidy up some of the mess that daily life makes of your …
I’m currently taking a class in Old English, just for fun, and we’ve been translating some medical texts on herbal remedies. A nettle poultice, for example, is good for chilblains and sore joints, and carrying periwinkle will keep one safe …
Following up on my earlier post about generating Bluebook citations, there’s a new variation on the Bluebook citation style available in the Zotero Style Repository. If you search “Bluebook”, you’ll find a new style available called “Bluebook Law Review (with …
If you’ve ever used a tool to generate citations, there’s a good chance that tool used Citation Style Language. CSL is an open source, XML-based language designed to describe citation styles. Many citation managers and citation generator tools rely on …
I’ve recently started an exciting new job, but one part I wasn’t so excited for was switching from Google Workplace to Microsoft 365, and especially from Gmail to Outlook. In Gmail, I relied heavily on labels, filters, the “multiple inbox” …
I’m not much for year-end rituals, but I do like to look over the books I’ve read during the year and see which I can’t stop thinking about and which I can’t even remember reading. For a holiday fluff sort …
Let’s talk about big tech – physically big, that is. With all the focus on cloud-based tools and other software, it’s easy to forget about the hardware. Here are a few of the most useful, novel, or interesting “large tech” …
