Year: 2002

So he works for Microsoft, but you can’t really argue with this logic: If you ask me, getting a kick out of being successful with a virus on Windows is sort of like claiming fame for rolling a bowling ball down a mountain. It isn’t very hard to get the bowling ball to the top,…

How do they pick the cities they show on the inflight map? Right now, we’re somewhere high above Canada (36,000 feet, to be exact) in between Goose Bay and Chicoutimi. Absent from the map? Montréal, Toronto and Québec City. Now they’ve gone to the large map – so you can see western Europe and the…

London Taxi Cabs are without a doubt the best in the world. Now if there just weren’t so much traffic, getting around town would be convenient and quick. Any time four adults (including two of us well over 6’) can fit comfortably into a vehicle with a driver, you have to be impressed. Why can’t…

Received an e-mail from John Hiler today, the guy who wrote the Google bomb articles from a couple weeks ago. Turns out he’s launching a new e-zine about weblogs titled “Microcontent News“. The article announcng the new zine is here, and here’s a snippet from the article that explains why Hiler is so enthusiastic: If…

One of the things that was really starting to make business travel bearable last year was high speed Internet access in every hotel room I stayed in. I’m a Hilton bigot (as a HHonors Diamond member, they upgrade me to embarassing rooms when I check in; how can you turn down a 1900 square foot…

Originally published: March 19, 2002Edited: April 16, 2002by Rick Klau Six years ago, I was in the main conference room of a Top 100 law firm. I was trying to convince the managing partner of this 400 lawyer firm that the firm needed an intranet. “Strip away the technology, the bells and whistles,” I said.…

Another good post from Ernie the Attorney about technology’s potential impact on the practice of law. And it forces one to ask a fundamental question: when does Ernie find time to bill time?

Just checked in for my trip to London. Interesting notes: even though the Feds have taken control of security, the separate check-in for first class/frequent fliers was still open at O’Hare. They’d said it would be closed a month or two ago – but hey, I’m not complaining. And what happened to the National Guard…

Great article about the growing importance of blogs in April’s Fast Company. One thing that bothers me, though: why mention only blogger.com? I guess the article was just about web publishing, but Radio does it better than blogger. And Radio is a powerful KM tool to boot…Anyway, couple key quotes from the article:The market for analysis,…

Don’t even know why I bothered to check the weather (I’ll be there all week starting tomorrow):