Word has just reached me (code for: I started reading the stuff piled in my “in” box) that FIU and Barry law schools both achieved full ABA accreditation in December.
Congratulations to all. The FIU achievement is particularly impressive, as they did it in the minimum time possible under the rules.
So it seems that this very respectable law prof from another university reads this blog. And what does he send me? A link to this:
To Make Her Crazy Enough to Fit In:
Chick #1: I didn’t get into any of the colleges on the east coast I applied to. I’m so bummed.
Chick #2: But you got into Miami — that’s pretty cool.
Chick #1: But that’s not on the east coast. I’m going to have to get a passport and some crazy shots to go there.–W 10th & Bleecker
Miami Herald, Big coke float a mystery,
A police officer made an unusual discovery in Hollywood Tuesday: a half-million dollars’ worth of cocaine.
The cocaine — about 37 kilos (more than 81 pounds), wrapped tightly in cellophane — had likely been at sea for a month before washing ashore at North Beach Park, 3501 N. Ocean Dr., said Capt. Tony Rode, a Hollywood police spokesman.
The cellophane package was coated with barnacles, he said.
Forget those metal detectors on the beach…
South Florida has been awarded the coveted #1 ranking as the public corruption capital of U.S..
Between 1996 and 2005, a record-setting 576 people were convicted of federal corruption charges in the district that extends from Key West to Sebastian, according to the agency’s most recent annual report.
Actually, the award is a bit of a misnomer — given that it is awarded for the most public officials convicted of corruption, it could easily mean that we’re the leader in dumb and corrupt public officials. Maybe in Chicago or DC they are smarter at covering their tracks. Or maybe we have better prosecutors.
In any case, I would like to go on record as saying that this award is unfair to both of the smart, honest, hard-working public officials in South Florida.
I’m sure that there are at least a couple.
I don’t expect much sympathy for this, but it was so cold out today that I had to wear a sweater. And we’re running the heater in the house this evening. I’m told it could get down to to the low 40s (that’s a few degrees centigrade) tonight.
We do expect a brief annual cold snap, but never this early in the year.
Back on Dec. 17, 2005, I posted an item entitled Kudos to the Miami-Dade Public Library which said,
I have to praise the Miami-Dade Public Library system. Once I escalated my complaints about their new wireless service they have done almost (but not quite) everything I asked for.
They unblocked digicrime.com from the PC network. They are going to put into place procedures which allow on-the-spot blocking overrides for the laptops they lend out in the library (!). They regret that they don’t see a secure means of providing a similar on-the-spot override for users who bring their own laptops, as they think that would ‘compromise security’.
But most importantly, they’ve unblocked port 22 so I can use ssh! And they were very nice about it, too. (Please, nobody mention some of the things you can do with ssh tunnels, ok?)
I’m impressed.
Well, a good chunk of that statement is now inoperative. I am posting this from the Kendall branch, and my attempt to reach digicrime.com just produced this glorious message:
Access to this site is restricted 1
Hacking the site is www.digicrime.com
Not only is this infuriatingly uninformative, but it represents a grave breach of faith with library patrons. How many other whitelisted sites have been surreptitiously re-blocked?
At least ssh is still open…
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