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What Is The Greatest Jazz Album Of All Time?

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out. Listening for the umpteenth time this afternoon to Dave Brubeck and Time Out. Still relevant in 2020, although pressed in 1961. By far, the greatest jazz album of all time. Prove me wrong.

 

Wanna Get Away? Drive Your Car.

The Future Of Air Travel. Fly COVID Air, your health partner in the skies. Make sure you arrive at least 4 hours before your flight to complete the mandatory health screening. Then, settle back for a comfortable ride in a cocoon in the sir. Sorry, no food or bathroom breaks, unless it's an emergency. That will be defined by your flight crew. Enjoy.

Liquid Text For Windows Desktop - Pour Your Words On To The Page.

Liquid Text. Finally, something Apple invented that I am happy to use on my Windows machine. This cool app allows you to take any computer document and add notes, written with a stylus, or typed, and drag and drop excerpts of the document to a side by side workspace. I will use it most to review documents that I formerly printed and annotated with a pen. Thanks, Apple. It's about time you did something for Windows users. In fact, since Windows notebooks have touch screens, we can now make notes right on the screen. I hadn't used a Microsoft stylus; but, I see one in my future. Put your 2 in 1 notebook computer in tablet mode, and go to town. Cool.

Applying Monthly Security Updates To Your Android Phone

Security Updates For Android Phones. The days are gone when smartphones only got updated on a yearly basis. When you sell more phones than any company on the planet, you get Google updates much more frequently, and monthly security updates on Android phones are a thing, these days. At least, flagship phones like my Galaxy Note 10+ 5G get them. However, many of you ignore the update messages, don't you? Generally, you are one of two kinds of people. You watch your mileage, and service your car regularly, or you wait until you are in the middle of nowhere and the engine quits. What kind of person are you? Check your phone notifications. It may have an update for you.

Google Pizza - Life Is Getting More Complicated

Google Pizza. It won't be long now, until you will be able to say: "OK Google", "I want a pizza", and a pizza will magically appear at your front door a few minutes later, without human contact. A drone will likely deliver the pizza and Google's computers will take the order, and other computers will mix, and cook, the food. Of course, nothing in life is that simple anymore, is it? Here is what will really happen when you order a Google Pizza:

CALLER: Is this Gordon’s Pizza ?

GOOGLE: No sir, it’s Google Pizza.

CALLER: I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.

GOOGLE: No sir, Google bought Gordon’s Pizza last month.

CALLER: OK. I would like to order a pizza.

GOOGLE: Do you want your usual, sir ?

CALLER: My usual ? You know me ?

GOOGLE: According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust.

CALLER:
OK ! That’s what I want …

GOOGLE:

May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten-free thin crust ?

CALLER: What ? I detest vegetables !

GOOGLE:
Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

CALLER:
How the heck do you know !

GOOGLE:

Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

CALLER:  Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza ! I already take medication for my cholesterol.

GOOGLE: Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you purchased only one box of 30 cholesterol tablets at Drug RX Network, 4 months ago.

CALLER: I bought more from another drugstore.

GOOGLE: That doesn’t show on your credit card statement.

I paid in cash.

GOOGLE: But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

CALLER: I have other sources of cash.

GOOGLE: That doesn’t show on your last tax return unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

CALLER: WHAT THE HELL !

GOOGLE: I’m sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you.

CALLER: Enough already ! I’m sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others. I’m going to an island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone service and no one to watch me or spy on me.

GOOGLE: I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6 weeks ago.

Scam Spotter - How To Spot The Bad Guys.

Scamspotter. Google's new Scam Spotter website is designed to help you spot scam messages and phishing ploys. The top three rules also apply to scams in the physical world. First, slow down. No reputable organization will demand money fast. In the real world, sales people call this creating a sense of urgency. Just say no. Check it out first. Second, research the facts. If you get a phone call that is fishy, hang up, and find the company separately. Third, never give money to someone posing as a Government official, or other official. The real organizations will never demand money immediately. Check out this site to see how scammers part gullible people from their money. Be safe out there.

The Night. Always The Night.

The SmartWatch Is A Legal Assistant That Doesn't Need A Salary

How To Enable App Notifications In Galaxy Watch. In a Galaxy long ago, and far away, I sat in courtrooms without a legal secretary or legal assistant waiting for hearings to begin. When the hearings started, I had to schedule follow up hearings in a paper calendar. Then, I had to return to the office, or find a phone to call my legal secretary, and coordinate our paper calendars. She would also fill me in on phone calls, which she noted by writing details on a paper phone pad or slip, which was placed in my office on the desk. Smartphones changed all that, and, these days, Smartwatches have made that kind of communication ubiquitous and all on the wrist. In addition, even if I leave the Smartphone at home or the office, a dedicated phone chip in the watch receives all notifications, including text messages, emails, and calendar notifications wherever I am in the entire world. Legal secretaries and assistants no longer need to be just a courier of notifications. They can be partners in the delivery of legal services, and have more time to be the linchpin between attorney and client. Let the technology do the easy stuff. Save your brain and employees for a more important mission.

U.S. Versus China Trade Wars - Never Fight Without Ammunition

Legal Tech Industry Trade War? What Trade War? As if we didn't have enough problems with pandemics and hurricanes and unemployment, the U.S. versus China trade wars are further aggravated by the conflict over the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the legal tech industry, tariffs on goods probably don't affect much; but, many law firms have furloughed or fired employees who use that tech, and the market could become a precursor of a downturn in the need for legal services. At the least, the need for services may even increase; but, more clients will not have the resources to pay for services. On the other hand, the use of technology is enabling lawyers to remain in business by providing the means to maintain contact with prospective and current clients, and to serve their legal needs. Technology is the ammunition of legal services during trade wars and pandemics. Learn and use it.

In Case You Thought That 2020 Was Different

If you needed proof that Fate has been, and will continue, with the help of our fellow man, to do unspeakable horrible things, and that the only rational strategy is to live well and virtuously ourselves. I offer a Sixties ballad by one of my favorite groups, The Kingston Trio. While primarily a protest against the development of nuclear weapons, the song highlights the fact that Fate has been doing its best to bring death and destruction for a long time. What we are experiencing is more of the same. Now, the question becomes, what are you going to do, since you can only choose your own actions? Will you join the humans who are destroyers, or will you learn to love your Fate, and live a good life? Your call.