Month: December 2005
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Lessons learned this Christmas
We had a wonderful Christmas at the Klau house. But I feel compelled to share a few lessons learned this Christmas: Amazon.com needs to mark their boxes as “wrapped” or “unwrapped”. There is nothing more annoying than opening a box with a gift for you in it, unwrapped… and no way to see who it’s…
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iPod Video
The big gift under the tree this year was a video iPod, and I’m in love. I’ve already started loading it up with some video blogs, and I’m currently experimenting with the best way to rip DVDs to video that the iPod can see. So far, the easiest option seems to be PQ DVD, which…
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Letter to the editor
My letter to the editor of The Naperville Sun, in response to columnist Tim West’s support of President Bush’s wiretaps. Hopefully it’ll get published soon.
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Funniest thing I’ve read in years
Oh my God, this post by Heather Armstrong (aka “Dooce”) will leave you gasping for air. Riotously funny.
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Bush lies regarding wiretaps
DNC blog, giving us the President’s quote on April 20, 2004: Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. New York Times article that broke the story on Friday about the Bush Administration…
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Performancing for Firefox
Om Malik on Broadband : » Performancing for Firefox, Awesome In fact, if I have to use a PC, then this will be my choice of blogging application. Performancing for Firefox is just the kind of simple, lightweight application I had imagined was possible when researching my story, Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare. Totally agree with Om:…
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Four years
Wow, I almost forgot. I started this blog four years ago today. The blog is directly responsible for my last two jobs, led me to meet too many people to name individually who I know consider close friends, resulted in me meeting one presidential candidate, hosting a hopefully future presidential candidate in my family room,…
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Patriot Act infinite loop
Brad Feld posts about the latest odd Patriot Act foolishness: the requirement for a non-PO Box mailing address. In Brad’s case, that’s impossible since he doesn’t have a physical mailing address. And, as he notes, it’s rather ironic, since the government won’t let you use a government-provided mailing address as your official mailing address. Seems…
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Duckworth website
Just found Tammy Duckworth’s website here. There’s some info on her stance on the issues, and a collection of news items as well. According to the events page, she’ll be doing her formal campaign kick-off at campaign headquarters in Lombard today at 1pm.
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Scoble meets with Darcy Burner for breakfast
Darcy Burner is an ex-Microsoft employee who’s running for Congress in the 8th District in Washington. She dropped Scoble a note, and after meeting for breakfast, Scoble had a few suggestions for her about how to use the technology well. Scoble’s last comment caught my eye: Oh, she did get something right, though. She promised…