OK! It has been a long time since I’ve accessed this blog. First there were back problems…then there were….but you’re really not interested in all of that, anyhow. Sufficient to say that I slacked off, didn’t get back to it, and am, in essence picking up again, mostly about what is going on in the [...]
As long as I’m thinking Conventions, I should mention Legal Tech West Coast 2006 on June 5 - 6 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Were it in San Francisco, or perhaps in the middle of winter here in Chicago, I might consider it this year. (Why schedule a New York show in [...]
I’ve been having problem with my natural born, G-d given equipment — herniated disks leading to some sort insult to a nerve with pain radiating down my left leg — not something particularly nice, and pain making it very difficult to walk, sit or almost anything in between. The pain relief people are working on [...]
The flight to Newark was uneventful, and the plane was only half full. The SuperShuttle to the Hilton and up to our room, where WiFi is $9.95 per 24 hour period. Not bad WiFi, actually, if a little pricey.
In the next couple of days I’ll be meeting representatives of several different companies, anxious to [...]
And they don’t even announce these things to point users to them. One day, a “delete” button appears along (along with the Archive and Report Spam buttons and the More Actions pulldown) and suddenly the most selected activity on Gmail is a single click rather than a pulldown and select action. (Well….maybe there [...]
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I wasn’t there in 1981, but the ALM folks, the current proprietor of the Legal Tech trade shows, claim that this year’s edition of the New York show marks a 25th Anniversary. (Mark Welch and I didn’t begin the Law Office Technology Review columns until late 1987. I’ve made most of the shows, since [...]
Well, yes it is. The introduction of WordPress 2.0 brings the question whether it is worth the time and trouble to upgrade, just to tell others about it, and whether it is worth it to pick up the Blog, and regular posting.
The answer is yes and yes.
So back at it.
ALM Publishing (a former publisher of mine in the days when the properties were owned by Steve Brill and some small partner of Steve’s) sends along word of a 15 percent discount on several of its books (scroll down). My e-mail promo code was 214201, although they have a different one one [...]
A couple of months ago I picked up a new notebook computer, inexpensive and sold under the name of the once notorious, but ever inexpensive eMachines. The M5405 came with a 1.6 MHz AMD Mobile Sempron processor, 512 MByte of RAM (although some of that was shared with the video display), a 60 [...]
My name is Barry Bayer. I live and work in the unfashionable Southern Suburbs of Chicago, and have been practicing law since 1969. I have been writing about personal computers, generally, since I bought my first Apple ][ in 1979, and computers and other technology for lawyers, specifically, since 1987. My [...]