This is a recurring theme on this site if only because I give a regular presentation on the topic for lawyers coming to practice in Ontario from outside the province. The fundamentals of protecting client data – confidential and private information the lawyer collects during the delivery of legal services …
The practice of law is highly individualized. From the solo to the largest firm lawyer, there are nuances that each lawyer brings to the way they practice and that can distinguish the successful from the aspiring. The Muskoka Law Association invited me to come and speak to them about technology …
Every 6 months or so our organization puts on a multi-day educational program for lawyers coming to Ontario from other jurisdictions. I frequently do a session on issues relating to confidentiality and technology during the program. It is a baseline look at these topics – passwords, encryption, and so on …
The imminent demise of Google Reader has caused me to immediately move on. While many Reader users have migrated to other hosted sites like Feedly and Newsblur, I decided to install my own version of the open source Tiny Tiny RSS reader. This is in part because I don’t use …
Google will return a personalized set of results if you are logged into your account. This can create the so-called filter bubble and I tend to turn this off. But you can cause personalized results to default to being off in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are my …
The world of Chromium OS has been in motion. Hexxeh is no longer making two versions, focusing solely on the Vanilla build. I’d loaded Dell’s build from December 2011 onto my Dell Mini 9 and was happy with how it ran. Not great, but acceptable and it was fun to play …
I was watching Finding Nemo the other night with our “youth of today”. I’d only seen it for the first time late last year – about 9 years after it was released. That’s par for the course. This was the second time and I was enjoying it just as much. …
When Google announced it was wrapping up Reader, I flipped immediately to Tiny Tiny RSS and decided also to go back to Mozilla Firefox. That experiment has ended. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the Web browser but there were a couple of irritants that made me decide to go back …
April was a hectic month for a lot of reasons. Somehow I missed being quoted in an article in the Canadian Lawyer …
This is a recurring theme on this site if only because I give a regular presentation on the topic for lawyers coming …
The practice of law is highly individualized. From the solo to the largest firm lawyer, there are nuances that each lawyer brings …
It is trite to say that you can’t measure what you can’t count. There are many places in life where there is …
Spring is finally breaking through. It was hard to see the other day when we had the last attempt at snow, which …
Every 6 months or so our organization puts on a multi-day educational program for lawyers coming to Ontario from other jurisdictions. I …
The imminent demise of Google Reader has caused me to immediately move on. While many Reader users have migrated to other hosted …
The slow evolution of our internal technology use meant an upgrade to a larger network attached storage unit. I selected a Seagate …