Author: Rick Klau

  • Web hosting suggestions?

    I’ve been a Verio customer for seven years. I pay $25/month for 200 megs of disk space and 7.5 gigs of bandwidth. It includes CGI hosting, but nothing else — no PHP, no mySQL, etc. I have a total of 10 POP mailboxes on the domain, star aliasing for mail forwarding, and 20 unique e-mail…

  • What was President Bush for Halloween?

    Annette Messina shows us that David Letterman knows the answer.

  • Aldon Hynes and the Declaration of Independence

    For those that don’t know, that cutie on stage with Governor Dean from Saturday was Aldon Hynes’ daughter Fiona. Aldon’s wife wrote a terrific recap of what being on stage meant to her. Aldon’s commitment to the campaign and his ability to get others involved is an inspiration. Do yourself a favor and read his…

  • Dean about to see a “groundswell” of support…

    Challenges Expected to Grow for Dean Rivals Read the whole article from yesterday’s L.A. Times, but the concluding quote is just too much: A top advisor to one of his rivals said that given the financial and organizational resources flowing to Dean, “The truth is you are looking at a situation where if Dean wins…

  • Dean in a Super Bowl ad?

    Aziz over at the Dean blog wants to get Dean to buy an ad in the Super Bowl. He shrewdly notes that the Super Bowl is just four weeks before Super Tuesday. Hmmm….

  • Naperville Sun covers our Iowa road trips

    Here’s a great article in the Naperville Sun (Naperville is a town of about 130,000) about our efforts to shuttle volunteers to Iowa: Local Dean supporters begin road trips to Iowa By Katie FoutzSTAFF WRITER Naperville resident Rick Klau will pack his bags with glossy brochures bearing Howard Dean’s name and head west to Des…

  • Bloomba – e-mail client update

    After a couple heavy days of Bloomba use, here’s some feedback: The spam filter is quite good. No false positives yet. Bloomba doesn’t actually do the spam filtering, the proxy server (SA Proxy) that’s bundled with Bloomba does. And there’s a nice integration point between the two: if you get a message in your inbox…

  • While on the subject of Kerry…

    Boston.com / Hard to pull for Kerry As long as we’re discussing the Kerry campaign strategy, it will be awfully interesting to see him explain away his own behavior in 1996. From this September column in the Boston Globe: Kerry didn’t just violate the deal [with opponent Bill Weld to limit campaign spending to $5…

  • MSNBC.com: Dean shakes up Democratic Race

    Dean shakes up Democratic race “The more liberals find out about his record as governor of Vermont, the more they’re going to be uncomfortable with him,” said Jim Jordan, campaign manager for Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.). Assume for a moment this is true. Jordan doesn’t actually think that after acquainting themselves with Dean’s record…

  • Slashdot on The Matrix (Resolutions)

    Slashdot | The Matrix: Resolutions Slappy White writes “For six months, Matrix message boards were aflame with speculation, theories, predictions and outright psychotic guessing about Revolutions. Now the film is here, and this article has a humorous roundup of some of the popular theories, both those that were close and others that were, shall we…