I'm putting together a training class on reviewing non-disclosure agreements. I did a training class for this same client last week on "Contract Essentials" and now they would like to dig down a level and learn everything there is to know about reviewing an NDA. In addition to going element by element through the kinds of NDAs you see in high tech ( Read more... )

British perspective, please: is this story being treated as a big deal? Is there outrage? This is the sort of thing that I would expect to see here under the Bush administration but not in the UK, which I tend to think of as practically perfect in every way.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was quite stellar, though a bit smaller than usual: my brother and his family decided to stay home this year. A perfect storm of family politics collided directly into him this year, and I think he just felt it was all too much. But we did have my parents and Geoff's dad and wife. Everyone was in good ( Read more... )

• 07:49 Pleased to have found the npr suite of twitter feeds. #
• 07:52 Trying to get organized #
• 07:54 Excitement! Window washers coming 12/5! #
• 08:08 Putting together proposal for non-disclosure agreement contract review techniques for Teknovus. $$$ hopefully. #
• 08:13 Just won a flea-bitten grey Breyer horse just like my daughter's real horse on E- ( Read more... )

• 13:14 Getting ready to go to Matriarchs Tea at synagogue (to honor female congregants over the age of 80.) #
• 16:15 Just honored 28 Jewish matriarchs, age 80 to 107! Phew! #
• 17:54 Just finished cleaning the refrigerator. Yuk. Shouldn't leave it that long. #
• 19:49 Just finished baking oatmeal cookies, half with raisins and cinnamon, half with ( Read more... )

Join The Impact is a GLBT civil rights organization that has modeled itself on the Obama campaign's approach of combining active grass roots support with a positive message.

They have quite a few events coming up, but the one I really like is on December 10, International Human Rights Day, when they are sponsoring Day Without A Gay on which ( Read more... )

• 10:17 So happy to see my little Twitter world expanding! #
• 10:32 Emptying out e-mail in box. Stay tuned for an e-mail, if you're expecting one from me. #
• 10:34 Why do so many recipes call for blue cheese and bacon? #
• 11:19 @ planetmoney No, but I can tell you my personal history of surviving (or not) countless layoffs. Yeesh. Life in the post- ( Read more... )

• 09:08 @ itsprettyokay Glad to see you on Twitter! #
• 09:18 I'm excited by the Monty Python channel on YouTube! www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython #
• 09:19 Just finished first round of Christmas shopping. So where's that deflation everyone's talking about? #
• 09:50 Networking my little heart out even as I tweet. #
• 10:02 @ itsprettyokay twitter is perfect ( Read more... )

• 07:14 It's only Wednesday? What is going on with the time/space continuum this week? #
• 08:26 Well, that was a classic cat-herding exercise. Except I *like* cats. #
• 10:04 South Carolina implementation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act is wild! Prison, anyone? #
• 15:42 Both kids now have their flu shots. We're a fully-shotted family now. #
• 17:32 Back ( Read more... )

Fun article on the LOLcat phenomenon.

Fun Ken Burns-style documentary about LOLcat history.