3.00am
Phone call from partner in Singapore reporting serious laptop problems and constant bleeping. Ask whether two matchsticks and bare wires inserted into the mains socket are a viable alternative to the mains adaptor contained
within the small plastic case we supplied. Quiet pause follows. Vow to never disclose story, especially not within an article in a major legal journal.
3.15am
Sleep. Dream of legal technological utopia, where technology never fails, suppliers offer their best prices on first meeting, lawyers always attend IT training
sessions, the Inland Revenue has agreed that IT directors need pay no tax at all and IT staff
unanimously agree that meeting commercial goals is more satisfying than any technology interests on their part.
