I stopped blogging for most of a year. I found myself tempted to write about minor frustrations, not useful ideas. I should be thankful for days when I can fix a user's problem in two minutes by noticing that the power cord or connecting cable isn't plugged in, or can fix a "non-focusing" LCD projector by taking the lens cover off. Also, for a while it seemed as though there was little new out there. Vista and Office 2007 seemed old hat. What would catch my eye would be either for techies as such instead of lawyers (most lawyers won't get any benefit thinking about text editors or SQL statements); or else would be actually law-related, as I sent out the court decisions.
But just because I've seen something a hundred times doesn't mean most readers know about it. There are new things out there useful to lawyers in their practice, including ways to make the tech end of it easier. And even a mini-editorial about why John Q. Public should love standards of review and the ability of an appellate court to say "we might have decided it the other way around if we'd been the trial court, but we can't say the trial court was outright insane to decide as it did" is technically legal. Moreover, if a few such articles can help the general public appreciate why we need independent judges not swayed by majority opinion or money, then it fits the goals of the state bar association.
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