Author: Rick Klau

My taste in music runs to the eclectic, a hold-over from being a DJ while in college and law school. And though my collection of folk/acoustic music isn’t that large, I can’t imagine anyone not falling in love with Paul Curreri. I’ll grant that I’m a bit biased — I used to work with Paul’s…

Just when you thought Buzz couldn’t be any more pervasive, he turns up in Business Week. Congrats to Buzz for the exposure. Every vendor should be so lucky to have such passionate advocates as Handspring Palm has in Buzz.

Larry Sabato has updated his crystal ball for Q3, and here’s his conclusion of where the race stands: Dean (18 points) Kerry (10 points) Gephardt (9 points) Clark (7 points) Edwards (6 points) Lieberman (4 points) See the site for an explanation of the methodology (which looks at fundraising, people power, polling information and other…

I don’t know that I’d given it that much thought, but I always assumed “getting your teeth pulled” was a euphemism. Turns out it’s not: it means exactly what it says. I had two wisdom teeth pulled today. But the fun’s just starting — in a couple weeks, I get braces. And I didn’t even…

Howard Shapiro has just written a new book called One-Car Caravan, and it’s Shapiro’s account of the presidential race a year before the primaries begin. I haven’t read it yet, but plan to buy my copy shortly and will report back once I do so. The USA Today ran excerpts from the book last week,…

Many thanks to Matt Mower for letting me play with a soon-to-be-released copy of K-Collector for Movable Type. For those that don’t know, K-Collector is a tool that lets you add topic-specific information to your posts. The first step is giving you a way of visually representing the who/what/where of your weblog by showing others…

That didn’t take very long. In twelve hours, I’ve received 136 pieces of spam. Averaged out over a month, that factors to over 8,000 pieces of spam a month. (Two more since I started writing this.) Unreal. Ross is right, e-mail is dying. Please, make it stop hurting.

For a little more than a year, I’ve been a SpamCop subscriber, and in those 13 months, SpamCop has intercepted more than 27,000 spam messages. One of the advantages to SpamCop is that it’s server-based, so I don’t have to download the e-mail before seeing if it’s spam or not. (This is a huge advantage…

Jennifer Klyse has some poignant observations about the challenge of measuring school performance through standardized tests. No child left behind? I’m not so sure.

Just a tech note for anyone interested in such things: I just modified my RSS template in Movable Type to include macros from MTMacro. Here’s what I did: Created a Movable Type module that contains all MTMacros (currently using a Google macro and an Amazon macro that invokes the MT-Amazon plugin). I can now reference…