Author: Rick Klau

Yesterday’s announcement of Saddam Hussein’s capture was indeed a spectacular accomplishment for our military. It’s clear that consistent effort in intelligence-gathering, coupled with discipline and a few lucky breaks led to the capture of the most wanted man in Iraq. Regardless of your opinion of the merits of the war to begin with, one thing…

Wow. Jeff MacMillan, determined to talk sense into us poor saps, attacks me for not posting yesterday or today regarding Saddam’s capture. Sorry to disappoint, Jeff. Didn’t know my opinion meant that much to you. Since you asked, I spent yesterday (in between hating my country, of course), taking my 3 year-old to see Brother…

This has been on my list for a while, and now that it’s implemented it’s certain to be something I’ll use daily. Note: this requires PHP to implement. What I’ve done is pretty straightforward: to visitors, nothing has changed. But for me, whenver I visit my weblog, I see an “edit” link next to every…

From my three year-old came these two gems while shopping for a Christmas tree… After spotting a nice 6’ tall tree for the house, I showed it to Ricky and asked what he thought. He took a few seconds, looked it over, then said, “No, I think we should get one with lights.” After that,…

Taegan Goddard notes that a recent Survey USA poll indicates a major shift towards Dean in Iowa. I didn’t write about it here — been a bit busy lately, but last weekend I was discussing Iowa with a friend who’s just recently started following the race. And one prediction I made was that Iowa wouldn’t…

I don’t have a bat for this, but bear with me. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has put as much time into electing Howard Dean as any volunteer in the country. He signed more people up for DeanLink than anyone else in the country (469 at last count). He’s compiled a master list of every Yahoo group focused…

And no, it’s not a good thing. Thanks to an incompetent orthodontist who took my braces off too early as a kid, I’m now the proud owner of a mouth full of metal again. Technically speaking the braces aren’t metal but ceramic. That doesn’t change the fact that I feel like I swallowed a a…

Over at VentureBlog is this great post about Cravath, social networking, and the value of maintaining strong corporate cultures: Old School Social Networking As I type this, I am sitting in the Newark airport watching the snow fall and foolishly pretending that I will get on a plane this evening. It is just not going…

I got a complimentary copy of Winning Back America yesterday, courtesy of Simon & Schuster’s Geoff Kloske, Executive Editor of Adult Publishing. First off, thanks to Geoff for sending the book along. I’m going to read through it over the weekend and will post a review of it once I’m done. In the meantime, be…

At last January’s LegalTech, I met Charlie Uniman. It’s always nice when someone who’s read the blog introduces themselves; more refreshing was that Charlie, a lawyer for over twenty years in Manhattan, demonstrates what (in my experience, anyway) is a rare grasp of how technology can (and should) fundamentally change the practice of law. In…