I previously reported that Amazon.com was down with a non-descriptive error message.

Has it been a year already? It seems like such a short time ago that I sat up at 2 a.m. in a hotel room in San Simeon, CA writing about 2006. I claimed 2006 incredible and, an "oddity" in my life as for the first time in recent years I was not alone and sad on New Years Eve.

Tonight I'm starting a little early, it's 11:31 p.m. right now as I type these words (I imagine it will take me a bit to finish writing this post) on New Years Eve, and I'm capping yet another amazing year in the life of Nick Moline.

The time has come once again for an announcement of something I've been working on at Justia. Actually this is a double announcement of not one but two new services that I can finally mention today.

The first is a whole new way to Search Justia's massive amounts of free legal information, and it's thanks to a brand new service by Google (which is a commercial version of a service that has been available for free for some time) called Google Custom Search Business Edition. At it's core, this is the same as the Google Coop: Custom Search Engine that has been available for some months. Some time ago I created hundreds of these custom search engines on Justia to search a variety of legal topics and sites, and you can find these custom search engines scattered around justia.com and it's various subdomains. From search engines that search all law school web sites in California (or any other state) to search engines that search all of the blogs in Justia BlawgSearch, these cses have been a fantastic way to use the power of Justia's free Legal information to search the web for legal information.

I'm not sure why I've never done this before, but I'm writing this blog entry from the air, literally. Barbara and I are on our way to Texas to attend my brother's wedding. David is getting married on Saturday in Houston. We are on our way to my parent's house in Arlington at the moment and will drive down with my parents on Friday.

We should be landing in about a half hour or so, after flying for a total of about 3 hours and 15 minutes, and I don't have too much to say at the moment.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of this year's MacWorld Conference and Expo, which my wife and I got to attend, was not the announcement of the iPhone, but the lack of the phrase "And now, one more thing" which has been Steve Jobs' catch phrase at his keynotes for quite some time now. Since Jobs didn't use it this year, I'm going to shamelessly steal the phrase for the day and say "And Now, one more thing from Justia". I mentioned previously, that I was already working on the next project after Dockets and that Justia would be announcing it soon. My boss announced it today on a legal mailing list, so now I can finally talk about Justia Regulation Tracker at RegulationTracker.com!

I've been bedridden for days with the flu and it's driving me bonkers. A few years ago I would occasionally watch the show Even Stevens on the Disney Channel and I'm reminded of the episode entitled "Influenza, the Musical" as I lay in my bed coughing. At least everyone around me doesn't spontaneously break into song for no reason.

Oh how I hope this flu goes away soon...

My last blog post before this one was in August and things have definitely changed in the lives of Barbara and I since then. The biggest change (really the only change but it has effected so much of my life it's really a category rather then an item) is that I got a new job. I now work as a programmer for Justia Inc. Justia is a company that, among other things, provides websites for lawyers and law firms. The company is based in Palo Alto, California (in Silicon Valley).

As such this change of a new job also means that we no longer live with my parents in Texas but are now Californians. We have a small, one bedroom apartment in Mountain View, California a few minutes drive from the Googleplex.

Those of you who know us best most likely know this by now, but I felt it was important to update my blog and let people know about these changes. Yesterday (December 18th) marked the 2 month (October 18th) anniversary of the day we moved into our new home here in California.

This is a retroactive post, in May, I had a horrific experience where I almost died from a combination ailment and car accident. While working late at the Want a Better Website offices, I started experiencing great pain, I believe now that I was passing a kidney stone. I decided at 4:30 a.m. that I should drive home. While driving, I had a car accident, as another symptom of the ailment (a sudden need to vomit without warning) caused me to swerve, hitting the curb and destroying both left tires of the car, not to mention bending the front struts in the impact with the ground. I was hurt, but not more badly then my gut was already feeling.

Well when I changed my blog software and updated it Mike decided to switch to wordpress too, he's been having even more fun with plugins then I have. He put his Battlefield 2 stats on his blog as well as a live look at who's on his teamspeak.