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California appellate court’s Justice Bedsworth stifles a gag (mostly) in his latest monthly column, “Criminal Waste of Space,” in the Orange County Bar Association’s monthly magazine, September 2011 OC Lawyer

“Eat, Drink, and Hire Lawyers,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
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Oregon’s Classroom Law Project (CLP) Multnomah County Courthouse Experience tour guide volunteer program is fun and educational and perfect for non-attorneys.
Orientation for the upcoming Courthouse Experience tour guide season will be held on Friday, September 9, 2011, at Noon.  Sign up to meet other volunteers and CLP staff.
I volunteered last year and will sign up for another round.  I met excellent co-volunteers, CLP staff members, lawyers, judges, and judicial staff all of whom cheerfully welcomed the CLP tour guides and the students who participated in the court tour program.
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This is true whether you climb mountains or research the law.  How many times do you read a news report about a tragedy on a mountain where the climber, hiker, skier is described as “experienced.”
How about those Facebook and Twitter meltdowns with people, quite old enough to be considered “experienced” by any measure, who seem not to have read the whole screen, literally and figuratively speaking.
This is a rather roundabout way of saying, we’re never too old to learn new tricks, to learn from young and old, and to jump at any chance to learn or refresh our skills, whether they are computer, notary public, search engine, or database searching skills.
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Mary Ellen Bates (InfoTip) Summer/August 2011 post, “Still Using Google?” gives you a summary of the Hitwise study on searcher and search patterns.
You can also visit a list of Search Engines, Wikipedia’s list, and this search engine list for even more search engine explorations.
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If your own website or Favorites list has the old URL, you might want to update it manually, but the search engines catch up fairly quickly. (We have a lot of research guide and website updating to do ourselves.  Oh boy.)
One’s quixotic search for PURLs (persistent uniform resource locators – see also the Wikipedia article) is foiled again.  It takes research, time, expertise, and money to transition to PURLs and no one has that nowadays so most of us are stuck with link rot.
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Even if you plan to hire someone to build your business website, it helps to have a general understanding of how a website is created.  How else will you know what to look for when you review resumes and interview job applicants for your website design project?
You can sign up and pay for training classes yourself, and there are some excellent classes available online and at training centers, but wouldn’t it be nice to get a FREE introductory hands-on tutorial with a friendly public library techno-trainer before being thrown into the mysterious and stressful world of bytes, fields, frames, call-outs, HTML, Flash, domain names, URLs, Java, etc.?
I was looking at my own public library’s list of free computer classes and here are some of the many skills you can learn: spreadsheets, creating a basic website, Windows and Web for beginners, word processing, and an HTML lab.
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California appellate court’s Justice Bedsworth tries to stay upbeat about the likelihood of retiring before age 93, while simultaneously trying to understand the war between the sexes in China.  Are they connected?  Stay tuned:
“Jabberwocky, Part Deux,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
See his monthly column, “Criminal Waste of Space,” in the Orange County Bar Association’s monthly magazine, August 2011 OC Lawyer.
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But when you’re in the early stages of research, or just curious, try these websites:
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You can read more about Sara Rose, Kid Lawyer, a 4th grader who likes to argue!
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