It’s bad enough to accidentally download an e-mail worm — what’s worse is finding one that insults you for being foolish enough to open it. The Winevar worm is making its way around the Internet — make sure your virus definitions are updated!

Ordinarily, I would have posted a few Thanksgiving links a day for the past week, leading up to tomorrow’s holiday. Since I was on vacation, I’ll have to give you a few today, and maybe some tomorrow. If you haven’t made up your mind what to cook (besides the turkey, of course), or maybe a…

Courthouse News is a news wire service for lawyers, with daily comprehensive reports on new appellate rulings, new legislation, and new civil cases from both state and federal court. Unfortunately, the site hasn’t been updated since November 6, so it’s not quite “daily.” There’s also a link for Subscribers, but no information on how to…

Photographer Gregory Haun took old photographs from Portland, Oregon, went to the locations where those photos were taken, shot a photo of the modern-day location, and then used computer technology to merge the then-and-now images. Archeological Collage is very cool, and also a little sad, to see how things have changed.

When my father served as U.S. Attorney here in Dallas, he defended the government against a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed that the army had implanted radio receivers in his fillings, and that people were talking to him all the time (by the way, he claimed damages in that case of a zillion…

I used to love Gator — it made filling in online forms a breeze, and kept my credit card information handy so I didn’t have to pull it out every time I bought something online. But Gator apparently wasn’t satisfied with providing that great service, and started with a pop-up ad program; at select websites…

Cancer Prevention and Control, from the Centers for Disease Control, is the place to go if you want to learn about pending and enacted state and federal cancer legislation. View legislative analyses, reports, resources used by legislators, and related resources on breast and cervical cancer as well as cancer surveillance programs. If you’re researching…

About the Author

Hi!  I’m Tom Mighell, and I’m Vice President of Delivery at Contoural, Inc., where I help companies address their information governance, records management, and litigation readiness issues.  I’ve been a technology nut for going on thirty years now, and I love working with lawyers to help them use technology in ways that provide great service to their clients.