Comments for The Scots Law Student

Comment on Support BAILII by Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:38:50 +0000

Hear hear. Bailii is great… maybe we should do a sponsored blog-a-thon?

Comment on Tesco price checking by Tesco Makes Up Their Own Law Against Recording Their Prices

Tesco Makes Up Their Own Law Against Recording Their Prices — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:11:10 +0000

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Comment on Soulver T&Cs by Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:01:21 +0000

Wow… you’re blogging from your kindle?!?! Talk about living on the edge!

Comment on Soulver T&Cs by scotslawstudent

scotslawstudent — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:45:13 +0000

I always liked that all users of iTunes have agreed not to use it for nuclear research.

I’ve got a bit of an arms race going in Diploma — the tax stuff is going right over my head so every week I take a slightly better calculator to the tutorial to see if it’ll help. I’ve settled on bringing Soulver and it really does seem to work. If you were doing this a lot I would set up a template with whatever constants you need already marked in for speed but I find it’s good enough just to see each line of working.

The homepage stupidity is no fault of yours. I killed the layout with some images in the first Kindle post and am slowly trying to push that post off the homepage so that the layout will work again. For some reason one of the bugs is that you can’t see the latest post’s headline. It should be fixed in two posts’ time, so I’m hunting for bloggable material.

Comment on Soulver T&Cs by Law Actually

Law Actually — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:34:38 +0000

I’d not heard of Soulver or OpenCalc before, but I’ll definitely be checking out the latter.

I’ve recently been doing some commercial work for one of the companies in the group who are about to start selling hosted SaaS packages. We’ve gone to great pains to limit what the various packages can’t be used for… nothing remotely dangerous, risky or that could result in any kind of loss, damage … so, no running nuclear plants, air traffic control towers, life support systems etc.

The examples still tickle me…

Btw, am I just being stupid, or when you go to your blog’s homepage is there not a way of clicking the most recent post title so you can go to that ‘page’ and leave a comment?
I had to into the post directly from google reader as I couldn’t find a way in. The other posts have a clickable title…

Do I just need my eyes testing? :-\

Comment on Kindle update by scotslawstudent

scotslawstudent — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:51:05 +0000

That’s how it starts. I’m very happy Calibre means I don’t need to buy a newspaper subscription, though.

Comment on Kindle update by Law Actually

Law Actually — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:04:10 +0000

You’re a very bad influence… I’ve just bought my second ever piece of paid kindle content!

Comment on Kindle update by scotslawstudent

scotslawstudent — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:21:09 +0000

I think I might be putting in enough for both of us. I’m a sucker for clicking “buy” after I read a free sample. It’s an absolutely diabolical piece of design — it’s seamlessly tied to your Amazon account which is often seamlessly tied to your card. In fact, it’s a reason not to have the 3G model; at least I can only buy new books when I’m at home.

Comment on Kindle update by Law Actually

Law Actually — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:52:18 +0000

Yeah, I think I might give it a whirl.

Poor Amazon… they don’t make much money out of me from their kindle content.. I’m a big fan of their free books and the only book I’ve paid for was under £1.00.

Comment on Kindle update by scotslawstudent

scotslawstudent — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:27:57 +0000

I’m a fan of the app myself but I think the Kindle app only shows a small corner of what the Kindle can do. I think it really comes into its own when you’re using it to display your own documents.