Year: 2002

What does this mean? – Iraq is the tactical pivot– Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot – Egypt the prizeRead Jack Shafer’s article at Slate to learn more. It raises important questions: Why was this goof invited to present to the Pentagon? Is anyone (gasp) taking him seriously? Is he open to some basic PowerPoint tips…

TIPS is being run by “America’s Most Wanted” [bOing bOing] I’m having trouble believing that this is true, but by all measures it sure seems to be. According to this article at Salon, callers to the Operation TIPS hotline are routed to America’s Most Wanted. Guess Ashcroft was right after all – there really won’t…

Joy nails it. P.S.: Joy, can you please, please please fix your RSS feed? I’ve missed you!

Finally, A Way To Work Harvard Into The Conversation. Check out the first item for Monday August 5 here.  In some ways, the blogosphere resembles a cocktail party, as a joke works its way around the room.  The Nigerian bit had a multiplier effect which produced ten times the normal hit rate. [The Trademark Blog]…

If you’re looking for the ideal summer thriller, find a copy of The Quiet Game by Greg Iles. I don’t quite know how I have missed this author until now, but I’m glad I found him. I have read several of his books now – Spandau Phoenix, Black Cross and Dead Sleep – and have found…

Marc Barrot: “This should work even if your name is not Rick Klau.” (look under step 5, item #2.) Proof? Ernie did it. And some guy named Gilles. And some other folks. Again, Marc: Nice work!

I may be the only one who is completely impressed with Citigroup lately. I wrote about their incredibly successful cross-selling initiative (spearheaded by Tom Jones) last month; but I was also impressed on a personal level. My wife and I switched out banks last month, and are consistently blown away at how sophisticated they are. They’ve…

Thanks to a note from Bryce Yehl, I finally downloaded myRadio. It looks good, and is a nice extension of the Radio desktop. For the uninitiated, here’s what’s going on: Radio has two components. One is the version you see – a fully-formatted web site. There’s also a web site that I see. That web site…

Commenting on a post of mine from a few months ago, Mike Doan says: Mike @ 08/01/2002 08:38 PM. I’m an account and I blog…does that count? I rarely comment on the industry though. Until recently there hasn’t been much to comment on. [YACCS Comments for tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog]Cool! An accountant blog is…

(How’s that for a tortured headline?) Took a nice brief vacation, got back last night. Traveling with two kids under three is always an adventure! Much to get caught up on, and I’m again frustrated by Radio’s aggregator. (Non-Radio users can ignore this.) It took me just 20 minutes to get caught up on e-mail (more than…