2005

No, it’s not a typo. My friend Reid Trautz has started his new blog, Reid My Blog. Reid is the practice management advisor for the D.C. Bar. His blog will focus on “furthering innovation in management, governance, and ethics for lawyers.” I’ve encouraged Reid to do this because I know he will have some…

I’ve talked to lots of people about blogs this past week. (Many refer to lawyer’s blogs as blawgs.)  I’ve decided I won’t spend much space on my blog discussing how to set up a blog, how useful they are and so forth. There’s a lot of that information already available in the blogosphere and I’m…

When I was at the ABA Midyear Meeting, my laptop refused to connect to the Internet. The underlying problem was simply some corrupted DLL files, but, as the doctors would say, it presented itself in such as way as to send us down a lot of blind alleys. I received help from an outstanding IT…

The mouse is a very useful tool. We click on pull-down menus, graphical interfaces and icons to choose from among literally thousands of options. But there are many operations we do many times in a day or week. Memorizing the keyboard shortcuts for these tasks makes us more efficient computer users and speeds our workflow.

This week is the ABA Midyear meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. I will be attending  to, among other things, participate in the National Association of Bar Executives meetings. It’s a great place to get ideas to better serve our members. I’ve been invited to speak on a couple of panels. Wednesday I’m doing "Champagne…

Spell checking in your word processor is a useful tool. But here’s a goofy way to spell check anything that appears on your screen in any application. First, install the Google Deskbar. (Internet Explorer only.) Then when you want to spell check a word, double click on it to select it and hit Ctrl+Alt+G…

The Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive is less than three inches in diameter and comes in 2.5 and 5.0 Gigabyte sizes. It has a retractable USB cord included and (according to the computer magazine I’m holding) the 5GB should cost $160 street. Convenient and cute. I haven’t personally seen one, but we all…

If you need to locate an Oklahoma lawyer who practices in a certain geographical and practice area, you can do that online at OklahomaFindaLawyer.com. It is a free service, both for our members and the public. Not all lawyers are listed, only those who choose to sign up.  If you’re an Oklahoma lawyer who…

I posted a link to my "blogs" article yesterday. In it, I profiled Bloglines as a web-based RSS newsreader. Yesterday My Yahoo announced new features, including support for "the various flavors of RSS and Atom, allowing you to add virtually anything to your page." I had noticed people accessing my site through the beta…

My story in the Jan 15, 2005, Oklahoma Bar Journal asks “Was 2004 the Year of the Blog?” I used this story to introduce my blog to our membership. The title is no doubt a bit of hyperbola since most Internet users (and therefore most of the general population) still don’t understand what a blog …