Kate Carruthers

Summary of the tips from LifeHack on getting to the top follows, the original post is from Oct 2007 but still resonates for me. This is worth thinking about today as we all consider resolutions for 2008. 1. Whenever you can, act friendly and open 2. Don’t be manipulative

Changes to the law of consent in rape come into force today. I think it is a big step forward to have consent formally defined. Some people have claimed that these changes will cause frivolous cases where women will have a change of mind after the fact. But nobody has

This is a really great summary of how people are using Twitter and why from Dan York over at Disruptive Conversations, in summary he uses Twitter: 1. as a News Source 2. as a Knowledge Network 3. as a Virtual Water Cooler 4. as a way to stay up-to-

About a week ago I decided to start deleting some of my lesser used online accounts, starting with MySpace. It seems that it is very hard and takes a long time to delete a MySpace account. I went to the MySpace site and followed the directions to cancel the account,

Repost from STUB website follows ... Some Melbournites (well, at least @fulltimecasual) are in our fair city, and have decreed that there shall be a STUB meetup, this Sunday (30th December) from 2pm at the Glenmore Hotel. Where: Glenmore Hotel 96 Cumberland Street,The Rocks (map) When: December 30, 2007 2:

Over at the Sydney Morning Herald website Richard Ackland summed up some of the more memorable happenings in Australian legal circles in 2007, but two stood out for me: 1. JUSTICE SLEEPS IN NSW "The NSW Court of Appeal upheld the right of judges to get in some important