Old Dogs & New Tricks

I thought I was being entirely cool a few years ago when I began self-publishing ItSeemstoMe as an e-newsletter. Now, my friend Buzz Bruggeman tells me I'm ridiculously quaint and old-fashioned because I don't post it in a Weblog. Well, when you have your 60th birthday breathing into your face like some oversized sheepdog, quaint and old-fashioned is simply not acceptable. I need to keep current with the technology, even if one of my darkest secrets (until now) is that I never quite figured out how voices go through phones, or out of radios. I've always been in love with the miracle of technology--how it changes lives, not the mechanics of it--how it works. I thought it was incredible when the PC came along, but now technology is beginning to solve more personal problems like cancer.

This blog will be about technology and humanity, where it's been and where it's taking us. It will also be about the pragmatics of it--how it will bring financial advances forward. My thanks to Buzz and to Ernie the Attorney for pushing me into blogging.

Now if I can just get this damned thing uploaded...

Comments

[A.J. Levy]

Shel,

Regarding your old dogs and new tricks, I once heard a line: "There's nothing an old dog loves more than to learn new tricks." You wrote you were (or soon will be) 60 when you started your blog. Try 67 -- that's how old I was (and still am) when I started mine -- with Movable Type, Typepad's precursor. This old dog loves nothing more than to learn these new tricks.

Ernie also got me interesting in blogging and I started mine earlier this year: www.outoftheboxlawyering.com. The site is aimed at showing unusual "out-of-the-box" solutions that lawyers have used in solving what seemed to be insoluble problems. (I have been remiss in updating it lately, but I hope to start back up soon.)

I also include some non-legal humor, including, first instance, submissions and winners to the Bulwer-Lyton "It was a dark and stormy night" bad writing contest.

Good luck with your blog. Ernie is a great cheering squad and backer.

[Katerina]

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