Author: Rick Klau

Molly Ivins: Picking a Winner No one has been waiting with bated breath for me to make up my mind about the Democratic presidential candidates, but I have, and you might be interested in how I got there. I’m for Howard Dean — because he’s going to win. Molly Ivins is one of the most…

Zogby notes that Dean has grown his lead at “exponential rates” since late summer. In a poll conducted Monday to Wednesday this week of likely voters in New Hampshire, Dean has opened up a 30 point lead in New Hampshire. Here’s the real story to come out of this: not that Dean will win, but…

Here’s a suggestion for the various social networking sites out there: give me a way to introduce someone to someone else. Here’s the idea: I have two people in my network. Today, any of the social networking sites waits until a user initiates a request; that request comes to me, then I decide to approve…

Check this out — ActiveWords is doing a promotion of sorts with Chris Pirillo, and it turns out that for a period of time you can get ActiveWords for free. This isn’t a demo version of the product, time limited version, etc. It’s the real deal. As an AW user, I can absolutely vouch for…

Now that I’ve moved my Movable Type installation to mySQL, I have some pretty powerful options at my disposal for making the blog more user-friendly. Highest on my list was implementing MT-RefSearch, a PHP/mySQL hack that helps all those Googling monkeys find what they need. Here’s how it works: when a user executes a search…

Last month I downloaded a copy of Bloomba and used it as my primary e-mail client (for non-corporate e-mail). I was very impressed with the functionality overall: the searching mechanism really is how e-mail clients should work. But I decided not to buy it, for a couple reasons: Price point. I haven’t paid $60 for…

Howard Fineman questions whether Dean is ready for the Big House over Dean’s handling of the sealed gubernatorial reocrds issue. I can’t say I disagree with Fineman (on the mishandline of the issue), though I don’t think it’s so serious as to call Dean’s fitness for office into question. We’ve had a couple situations over…

Wondering if anyone has any ideas on this: the UK has had its Data Protection Act for quite some time, and Canada’s Act is due to take effect on January 1, 2004. Both acts require a business that maintains contact information about an individual to have that individual’s consent. So, hypothetically let’s say that ACME…

Apologies for the lengthy delay; lots of driving over Thanksgiving (put over 2,000 miles on the family minivan!) and then a ton of work waiting for me when the holiday ended conspired to keep me buried until earlier tonight. I’m still not dug out completely (there’s tomorrow’s MeetUp to plan!) but wanted to make sure…

I’m back. You know it’s bad when several of your co-workers stop you in the hall and ask why you haven’t been updating your blog. On the one hand, I guess it’s good that they read. (Hi guys.) But on the other hand, where are their blogs? Do they think this is easy? (Actually, it…