{"id":4804,"date":"2004-04-28T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T13:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/04\/28\/reforming-murphys-laws\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:50","slug":"reforming-murphys-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/04\/28\/reforming-murphys-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming Murphy’s Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"ship  What if you launched a new weblog, but no one could<\/EM> come?  A few minutes after we posted<\/A> two nights ago on the birth of prof. yabut’s journal<\/EM><\/STRONG>, our weblog server went down and stayed supine for well over a day. [Clearly, a clicked server does not boil any sooner.]   However, as Mr. Olson<\/A> has taught us, we probably shouldn’t complain — much less sue — over the disruption of a free service.   We shall, instead, bemoan the inevitability of Murphy’s Law<\/A>. <\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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On the other hand, lawyers are expected<\/EM> to be skeptics, nay-sayers and yabuts<\/A>, so we thought we’d inaugurate this new weblog with a counter-intuitive attempt at optimism<\/STRONG>.  After pulling teeth, the best we could muster were the following reform amendments<\/STRONG><\/EM> to <\/STRONG><\/FONT>Murphy’s Law<\/STRONG><\/FONT>, from Bob Brezsny’s <\/FONT>Free Will Astrology<\/FONT><\/A> column (week of April 22, 2004)<\/FONT><\/P>
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