Year: 2005

So it turns out that yesterday’s connectivity problems were due in part to someone sending a live video feed from their laptop. Good Lord.

Given the horrendous connectivity problems throughout the day, I chose not to do any real-time note-taking during the sessions. Some random observations: Dave’s OPML app is cool. I remember when I first “got” the outliner built into Radio a few years ago and getting really excited about it, and I documented how I managed my…

Spotty wifi is conspiring to force all of us in the room to (gasp!) pay attention. I feel bad for Dave, whose demo requires net access… memo to conference planners: get the speakers a wire. Don’t make them dependent on the stability of the wifi connection.

It’s raining men. If ever there were a need for gender equality, it’s this conference.

Just arrived at my hotel in Seattle for Gnomedex. On my flight out here, I realized this may be the first conference in at least a half dozen years where I’m here as an attendee, not as a speaker, a vendor or a sponsor. Ordinarily on the afternoon of arrival, I’m realizing how woefully under-prepared…

We’ve known about this latest bit of news since March, but with a number of miscarriages over the last several years, we weren’t going to start announcing Robin’s latest pregnancy until we felt confident that things were progressing well. I’m happy to report that the Klau family is set to get larger by one sometime…

Yesterday we took a day trip up to the Wollersheim Winery in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, just under a 3 hour drive from Naperville. Robin read about the area — which sits on the Wisconsin River and is just east of the Mississippi River — in the Tribune last month, and we decided it would…

This is hilarious. (Hat tip: So-Called Austin Mayor) Vote for the hottest U.S. Senator. Note, however: We decided Barack Obama is so hot that he’d wipe the floor with any of the others, so he’s excluded from this contest.

A friend has asked for a recommendation of a local web designer who’s comfortable working with small businesses, reasonably priced, etc. If that sounds like you, drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch with my friend (a Chicago business).

Caught at /., Google has filed a patent application for its PageRank technology. Nothing necessarily shocking — slow and steady, get inbound links, don’t be evil kind of stuff — but very interesting to see it spelled out.