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Last Friday, we presented one of our most popular seminars, "Electronic Evidence in Family Law," for the Louisville Bar Association and the Kentucky chapter of the American Association of Matrimonial Lawyers. It was a sophisticated audience, almost all of whom had dealt with electronic evidence in their cases.

The topic that most interested them was spyware (not surprising, as this is generally a hot button topic everywhere). A good number of the lawyers had run into spyware in their cases. Here's one of the war stories we told:

The husband, who had remotely installed the spyware on his wife's computer, wanted to uninstall it = perhaps someone had told him that he was committing a crime. In any event, this particular brand of spyware had a mechanism for remote removal. All he had to do was enter the password he had selected in the subject line of an e-mail and send it to his estranged wife. The problem (predictably) was that he couldn't remember the password. So the wife received a comic series of e-mails, containing variants of what the the husband thought the password might be:  merryweather, merriweather, merrieweather, meriweather, and, well, you get the idea. The wife was baffled and we were greatly amused, as everyone at Sensei realized that the darn fool had forgotten the removal password.

Thank God for the stupid - they frequently keep us employed.

So what's a "hot brown?" It's a dish invented by the Brown Hotel, and though many restaurants serve it, we were told by our Louisville hosts that no one makes it as well. Toasted bread is topped with generous slices of turkey, covered with a mornay sauce and bacon. The Brown Hotel (a tourist attraction in and of itself), was once the place to drink and dance the night away. In the early morning, the revelers would have a traditional breakfast of ham and eggs. Wearying of the same fare, the guests asked the chef to create a new dish and the "hot brown" was born.

Our "hot brown" was marveous, but John and I both noted that this is not a dish you should eat before seeing your cardiologist!

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