Author: Rick Klau

Mathew Gross, the brains behind the Dean campaign blog as well as numerous other Internet programs, has left the campaign and is blogging at his own site. Mathew became a good friend of mine during the campaign (when I visited Burlington I slept on his couch) and I respect what he built, and perhaps more…

Just got a review copy of The Book on Bush from Viking, and started reading it last night. I’ll post my observations in the next few days.

Over at Joe Trippi’s Change for America, he writes — I think it is great to think about running good people seeking change at the local level — but I also think once we find someone at the local level we want to put out a national alert to all who care about our cause…

Joe Trippi (former Dean campaign manager) is back on the Net, posting to his very own blog at Change for America. Stay tuned.

Though there’s been nowhere near the blog coverage of his sentencing, you may recall that last April Mike Hawash, a naturalized American citizen and former Intel engineer, was arrested on terrorism charges. At the time, many (myself included) commented on the case and remarked on the Kafka-esque notions of a citizen being arrested (but not…

As I’ve tried to get my bearings with Linux (my first extended foray with Linux in over 5 years), I’ve run into countless situations where I was clueless not only to the fix to the problem, but to what exactly the problem itself was. For instance: I’m using KDE as my Linux desktop (tip #1…

Just upgraded my browser to the browser formerly known as Firebird (and now known as Firefox). It’s at version .8, and promises lots of bug fixes, minor UI enhancements, etc. I’m on a pretty creaky Linux box, and I have to say that .8 is noticeably faster than .7 was. Beyond that, I’ve not noticed…

I promised an update back on Saturday, so here goes. I’ve corresponded with some of you directly (and if I haven’t done so yet, don’t take it personally!) in the past week or so, but just in case you haven’t heard: I’m no longer at Interface Software. Best way to reach me is by e-mail…

Howdy. There’s been a lot going on in the real world for me the last few weeks, leading to a much lighter schedule of blogging than I’d like. I’ll be posting more next week, and will follow with an update of what I’ve been up to.

I thought Dean did a great job on Meet the Press yesterday — much more relaxed than he was in June, much more in command of the issues (and willing to tell Russert when he was off-base). I still see a Dean nomination as a long-shot at this point (side note to Mike at TopDog04…