Laptop meets liquid
I had a business trip to the west country last week and did something really stupid on the way back. I accidentally knocked over a bottle of water and my computer got wet.
It killed it dead of course.
It was difficult to come to terms with to start with, I kept trying to start [...]
The Legal Web
Are you feeling ignorant about the internet. Worried about wikis? Baffled by blogs? Or intimidated by twitter? You need a bit of professional training and guidance.
Allow me to introduce the answer. This is the new ebook and CPD course from Nick and Delia on Modern Practice Topics for Solicitors.
Nick and Delia have been [...]
I wrote earlier about a search engine optimisation (SEO) service I had started using (and which I am still using) called Scribe. Well the people behind Scribe have now produced >> a rather good report on SEO which you can get here.
The report, as you would expect from the bloke who set up the Copyblogger [...]
I don’t know about you, but I find I am using the internet all the time. I am constantly looking things up, checking facts and the law before I write something, or seeing what new blog posts have been written by others. And I want to get there quickly with no tedious looking [...]
Using the internet seems a bit like magic. You click on your computer and the fruits of knowledge of the whole world are at your fingertips. Just like that.
And now we are told that we do not even have to store information on our own machines – we can store it all ‘in the cloud’. [...]
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 [...]
The UK Supreme Court IT – revolutionary or rubbish?
Two diametrically opposed articles have caught my eye today, about the new Supreme Court.
1. Richard Susskind writing in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers (Jan/Feb edition) talks admiringly about the court being the most technologically advanced in the UK, and describes how the Justices can call up documents and court papers with the flick of a [...]
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