Author: Rick Klau

This seems like a good tip for traveling through Newark… Many people have horror stories about riding the SkyTrain at Newark Airport.  It has a tendency to get stuck between stations, or to lock customers in and shuttle them around endlessly like cows in a claustrophobic boxcar.  Here are my tips: The attendants can’t really…

Like others, I was intrigued by Eric Alterman’s post on a private meeting between John Kerry and some pundits. Alterman clearly likes Kerry, and says that Kerry’s challenge is to find out how “to break through to Dean voters in the short amount of time he has left when the media has their storyline already…

The campaign brought the bat back, this time to respond to yesterday’s Club for Growth ad. The response ad will begin airing this weekend in Iowa and New Hampshire. Here’s the text of the ad — Title: “Club for Truth” Length: 30 seconds Video / Audio Image of George Bush over a closed factory. /…

From a source: Dean “has taken a slight lead” over John Edwards in a new Zogby poll that found “no clear favorite” — Dean had 11%; Lieberman and Clark 9%; Edwards, Al Sharpton, Dick Gephardt 7%; John Kerry 4%; Carol Moseley Braun 3%; and Dennis Kucinich .3%. Dean now “leads” in FL, with 16%, compared…

Dave Stratton asks in my comments for some examples of how to get the most out of ActiveWords. I don’t have all the answers (be sure to ping Buzz if you want the whole tour) but here are some good starts: Manage multiple sig files. I use a couple of e-mail programs, and was surprised…

Check this out: The Club for Growth announced yesterday that beginning today, it would be airing ads showing “Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean’s abysmal record on taxes.” “Handing over the economy to Howard Dean,” says Stephen Moore, “would give him a license to pick our pockets.” The ads, which will run in Des Moines, Iowa…

If I had a lot of free time and a decent budget, I would do this in a heartbeat.

Turns out the Yankees are in town that weekend, and the DNC is in negotiations to buy blocs of tickets for delegates. Predictably, Red Sox Nation aren’t all that thrilled. Come to think of it, it offers a nice metaphor. The Yankees, who’ve dominated the Red Sox in the past several offseasons, are the presumptive…

Is there any question that the Dean campaign’s efforts at courting “traditional” party support is becoming much, much easier as a result of this? (Questions: How many incumbents would love to see a two day infusion of $50,000? How many others in the Democratic Party are in a position to make it happen?) 30 point…

I’m looking to replace my current aggregator, NewzCrawler. It’s become a CPU hog, often consuming every CPU cycle to the point that my XP system becomes unstable. Here’s my list of requirements: Stability. I’m not looking to become a beta tester for another app. I want something that works. Movable Type integration. If I see…