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The turn of the year – and the start of a decade

Materialising blawg

A new year today, nay, a new decade.  2011.  A hundred years ago my grandmother was 7, in those last few years before the Great War. I very much hope that this century we can avoid such horrors and remain, more or less, at peace. In my life there are a number of new things. …

The impossible journey

The new Landlord Law logo

A new year, a new Landlord Law It started in January.  I decided to change hosting companies and asked my web designer if my website (that is my membership site Landlord Law) could be moved over to the new company I had chosen which is called UK Fast. Turned out that they couldn’t, so I…

Fear of the unknown – getting a grip on new technology

Woman with computer

I can remember, back in 1994 when set up in sole practice, after I had decided to get myself a computer to run it, buying a computer magazine. It was completely incomprehensible. There were all these references to normal sounding things like windows and buses, but they did not make sense. I remember reading a…

Linkedin for lawyers

My profile on Linkedin

Linked in is the big social media service for business.  I joined it quite a while ago now, and although not essential, I think it is a useful service for lawyers.  Certainly it is not as useless as some solicitors I have spoken to seem to think (mostly these are solicitors who have little experience…

A change of direction

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It will not have escaped the more perspicacious among you that (a) I have not blogged much for a while here and (b) this blog has changed its appearance a bit. The two are not entirely unconnected.  I started this blog thinking that I might perhaps use it to support a consultancy service (should there…