Risk, Re-/Insurance and Future Thinking
From the category archives:
Now that the 2009 Hurricane Season is officially upon us, I am looking forward (if that’s the right expression) to testing out how this iPhone app works. I bought it some months back so only have historical data on it, from 2008 and prior, but it promises great things.
The app — “Hurricane”, from Kitty [...]
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DiscoveryResources has published a list of 20 top e-discovery predictions for the coming year.
These in particular struck me:
5. Software as a Service will start gaining inroads due to lack of credit and a reluctance to make capital purchases.
i.e. hosted discovery services. I’ve been using these for about 5 years now and the people I am [...]
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One Janis Krums (a man) went to rescue people from the Hudson, and sent this picture via Twitter, believed to be the first of the crash.
Citizen journalism — and perhaps useful to crash investigators and insurers.
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Following on from my recent post on my Windows XP setup and apps, here is a similar take on the Mac.
Stuff that is mostly the same as on Windows
Firefox, largely with the same Extensions as for XP
Evernote — has largely replaced Yojimbo for me, though that is largely for the portability between systems.
Mac-specific
DEVONThink Pro – [...]
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As I’ve recently moved to a new firm, I thought I’d set out what I found I needed to install to make me most productive. In no particular order:
1. Dual monitors — big 24″ screen mostly centred in front of me for work on documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, doc review etc; 19″ monitor slightly offset to [...]
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Apologies in advance for the painful obviousity factor (POF) of this (probably about 87 on the POF/Richter scale), but it was new to me even though I’ve used MS Word for aeons.
I’m working on a couple of docs that have got to about the zillionth revision stage now, and wanted to print off the latest [...]
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Well the new FT front page is much better than the old, easier to read, less corrupted by ads, better laid out.
Be nice if they would transfer the look to all other pages, too. I should have thought it would be simple enough to redo the CSS sheets for the whole lot, and not just [...]
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ReRisk now with added Twitter — see Rapido News items in the side bar over there —>
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Amidst all the doom and gloom, the early trains into the City packed with office workers keen to be seen to be keen, the belt-tightening, expense-cutting, travel-slashing and so forth, it’s occasionally worth remembering that there are different perspectives.
Here’s Steve Jobs on how Apple chose to get through the last downturn:
We’ve had one of these [...]
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I’m honoured. Lexis Nexis have chosen Re Risk as one of the Top 50 insurance law-related blogs in the whole world. I’m willing to bet there are only 37 in total, so being in the Top 50 is great.
Here’s how they describe us:
Features provocative insight on risk, re-/insurance and future thinking with a [...]
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