Author: Rick Klau

I noticed in the last week or two that Firefox was often consuming a lot of my laptop’s RAM. Even though I have half a gig of RAM on this machine, Firefox was often grabbing most of the available RAM, causing other applications to occasionally stall, or at least cause the system to slow down…

Loved these gems from Jenny: An email message I received today from the Head of Adult Services at my local library: “I recently set up an AIM screen name for the reference desk, with the aim (ha!) of publicizing our IM availability soon. We haven’t told anyone about it yet. Nothing on the website, no…

I’m very disappointed, but I won’t be at today’s Blogwalk Chicago after all. It’s still snowing pretty good out here in Naperville — we received 6-8” overnight — and forecasts have it keeping up most of the day. My favorite snippet from the forecast: “Winds will also start to pick up…and will be gusting to…

Awe is the only word to describe the Huygens probe landing on Titan this past weekend. I thought I was impressed when I heard that Huygens had landed. Read the Slate write-up, then imagine you’re the guy pitching this project to his bosses over at the European Space Agency. Just try.

Remember my complaint last month about the Cingular/AT&T mess? Well, since then, Denise recorded a podcast about her trials and tribulations of getting her new Sony phone to work on the Cingular/AT&T network. Now this: The merger has been so complex and convoluted that both websites now have serious problems. The Cingular site lists no…

Just in case you didn’t see this: Dear Friends, On Thursday, January 20th, while the President is kicking off his $40 Million display of corporate power, we’ll be having a People’s Inaugural. We will be holding a press event at 12:00 Noon, at the Allegro Hotel. We will need help with with turnout. If you…

Hard to believe the Iowa caucus was one year ago today.

This just made me crack up: Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, “I’m on morphine and I’m higher than a kite.” It just gets better from there.. Bonus goofy news item of the week: Paris Hilton’s Blackberry was hacked. Quoth the source for this bombshell: “It’s one…

Oh, what a hard thing it is to be a 49ers fan these days. Ray Ratto sums it up thusly: Teams that go 2-14 never get that way with inferior coaching alone. You also need inferior talent, inferior talent recognition, and inferior ownership finding the people to recognize that talent… [A]ny lunkhead can go 6-10.…

I’ve talked in the past about boys only breakfast, a Saturday morning tradition with my kids. We do donuts at Krispy Kreme, and have for more than 18 months, with only a handful of missed days (often due to travel). It continues to be a wonderful treat for the three of us. This past weekend,…