Obiter

I was a junior lawyer, fewer than two years qualified, when I was asked a question during a contract negotiation that I should have been able to answer.

My guitar collection rocks. There's a gold top Gibson Les Paul, a cherry red SG, a couple of Fender Strats, a Cole Clark acoustic made from Queensland silky oak, and a peculiar looking, no-name, deep…

At eighteen, my girlfriend made me go to a club in Newcastle, where I was living at the time. Clubbing was never my thing. I hated it.

There is a phrase that sits at the end of contracts in Australia. Not all of them, but enough for me to confidently state that you have seen it before. It reads something like: "Executed as an…

Yesterday I published a module on this site explaining in the fairest terms possible how Claude's new text watermark works. As I was signing-off on the content, I wrote the editor's note, beginning…

Before they are published, these Obiter pieces exist as essays on my hard drive. I have a backlog of concepts, and few that I've developed a bit beyond that. This past week, I started to do the…

Right now, we should be living through a global energy crisis unlike any other in living memory. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran should, according to every serious forecast, have caused…

I was nearing the weekly reset for one of my personal subscription accounts and had something like 22% of my weekly usage allocation remaining. That's the kind of constraint that makes a person…

You have met this man. Everyone has met this man. Call him the Deputy Head of Something, and he's twenty minutes into a lecture nobody asked for. Senior enough that no one can leave, and confident in…