Author: Rick Klau

Sweet: Denise today caught that Brandon Rash, a student at my alma mater (Richmond School of Law) has a new blog: the EEJD blog (that’s EE as in “Electrical Engineering” and JD as in “Juris Doctor”). Welcome, Brandon!

My friend Matt Freeman has a website up for his race for Naperville City Council (the election is on April 5). It’s been great to get to know Matt and help him on this race. He’ll be a fantastic addition to the Naperville City Council — be sure to take a look at his site…

Aurora’s primary is today, polls close at 7pm. I’m guessing the top 2 finishers will be Tom Weisner and Richard Irvin. Will post an update when I start seeing returns online. If you live in Aurora (I don’t, I’m next door in Naperville), get out and vote!

On the road for a few days, posting is light. As Linda Richman would say, “Tawk amongst ya’ selves.”

In today’s Chicago Tribune: “Every year they make the same proposal and some of it is just ideological,” Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said today in Chicago. “It strikes me that we should make a greater investment in upgrading our rail system rather than eliminating the subsidies that already exist.” More on this here.

Will notes that Style.org has some incredibly neat pages that show different ways of visualizing data. I agree. Kudos to Will, who poked around after I pointed out the attempt at determining the airspeed of an African swallow (unladen, migratory) and found a few other gems. Style.org is the work of 13pt, where Jonathan Corum…

Maybe it’s because it’s Valentine’s Day, but I saw this story and instead of thinking, “My, airports really aren’t safe”, I instead thought, “Wow – dating sure has changed.” The jokes pretty much write themselves.

Two days after the Red Sox historic sweep in last year’s World Series, I said only half-jokingly to a friend, “I think there’s still a way they could lose this thing.” It was a similar feeling to one I had over the past few days… could Howard Dean really be the next DNC chair? It…

This is tough: the Bush budget proposes eliminating Amtrak’s federal subsidy entirely (it’s currently at $1.2b). This would probably push Amtrak into bankruptcy, and result in the elimination of long-haul rail travel throughout much of the United States. Now, this is a perennial budget target, and the MSNBC article linked above suggests that Amtrak will…

We released the latest version of our hosted product yesterday, Workspace 1.5. Eweek includes a few more details about the release.