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#WhyIAmASolo - I Set My Office Community Standards

Facebook has become such a big part of our lives that we forget its power to regulate us. I am still, three years later, trying to figure out what "community standards" are. Apparently, a photo showing a woman in an office chair, demonstrating the chair's benefits for computer use, violated Facebook's "community standards", and didn't show up in my feed. Here is my post. You be the Judge.

" Sitting Down For Work? You're Doing It All Wrong.
Practicing law involves a lot of sitting at a desk. With the rise of technology, that time has expanded to include looking at a monitor and typing on a keyboard. All the lessons your mom taught you about sitting up straight; lessons reinforced in the military, are wrong, wrong, wrong. Get a decent chair like the one in the photo, and lean back in a relaxed fashion, while giving support to the lumbar region. Using a computer mouse from this position is a lot less stressful on your low back. So, relax, and work away. Just remember to get up often, and walk around. When you are a solo, you have to do this anyway. No one is bringing you coffee."

This Is Not Your Father's Air Travel

FutureLawyer - How Is It Like Wine?

Florida's Future Lawyer Hpmepage! Information on Technology for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals..It is pretty amazing to contemplate that I first published the FutureLawyer page in 1997. I will have to figure out how to celebrate the 20th anniversary somehow in 2017. This is a page grab of the site in June, 1998. The Internet was in its infancy; and, the tech was pretty basic; but, it served as a front end for my musings on legal tech. Anybody out there have a page grab earlier than 1998 of their site?

#ParrotSunday - No Parrots On This LIst

What are the ten largest birds in the world today? Watch and see. No parrots among them.

Does This Doctor Look Familiar?

I think I've met this guy.

Anyone Want An Argument?

20 Ways To Get Use Out Of Old Android Devices

20 great uses for an old Android device | Computerworld. Okay, you probably don't have as many old Android devices laying around as the FutureLawyer. I probably have about 20 working smartphones, a few tablets, and 5 or 6 working computers that are just sitting, doing nothing. I have used old smartphones for remote security cameras, backup phones, universal remotes; but, this exhaustive list is certain to pique your interest. Makes a great weekend project. Enjoy.

#PoetryFriday - Snowbird

SNOWBIRD

He looked at the snow
piled on the ground.
Its powdery beauty glistened
and the early morning sun
rose over the forest trees in the distance.
A deer hopped through the chilly meadow,
happy to be in a winter postcard wonderland.
The snow covered the walkway
to the car in the driveway.
The newscaster predicted
more chilly weather
and a freeze coming.

His view switched to a garage
and a snow shovel.
Someone would be spending time
moving piles of snow and mud
away from the path.
He thought about the cold
and the heavy coats
and the muddy boots
in the foyer.
The chilly forecast was the final straw.
His old skin
wrinkled at the thought of another winter.

He turned off the TV weather report of his former home
Smiled, and walked out into the Florida sun.
He wore his uniform
of a Tshirt, plaid shorts, and FlipFlops.
He thought he might cut the grass
this afternoon.

Is Windows Defender Good Enough By Itself?

What%u2019s the Best Antivirus for Windows 10? (Is Windows Defender Good Enough?). You don't need a commercial anti virus program. The built in to Windows program, Windows Defender, is as good an anti virus program as is available, at any price. Viruses, however, are not the only threat you face. Malware, ransomware, and other nasty things are out to get you. For that, you should install Malwarebytes, the best software to protect the other half of your use. It isn't expensive, and you can set it and forget it. Be safe out there.

Microsoft Tips For Fun And Profit

Microsoft Tips. Are you spending enough time honing your computer skills by mining the many and varied ways that your computer and Windows can be used to have fun and be more productive? Increasing your computer skills will make you a more productive lawyer, and will turn into more dollars in the firm bank account. You can start learning here. Just learn one new thing a day, and you will find yourself being called an expert soon. How do you think the FutureLawyer started? Osmosis is reserved for biological transfer. Computer knowledge requires brain power and work. Now, get to work.