Author: Rick Klau

Hanging out on the couch today, a show on in the background had an ad for G4 TechTV. I was working on the computer, and only vaguely heard the song running through the ad: some kind of hip-hop-wannabe about tech stuff. Wait… what? Did he just rap “crashed FeedBurner”? Couldn’t be. I wasn’t on the…

I have two early Internet memories: first, reading James Berardinelli's movie reviews on rec.arts.movie-reviews. (Amazingly, James is still going strong on his own website, at http://www.reelviews.net/.) The other memory is writing a column for the school paper on the first gulf war ('91), and interviewing students in Tel Aviv and Riyadh by e-mail. It took…

I showed this to my parents over the weekend, and was struck again by how great Ben Affleck can be. Affleck’s impression of Olbermann is uncanny. He’s obviously having a ton of fun with it. And SNL’s directors did an impressive job with the camera setups to mimic Olbermann’s infatuation with multiple camera angles. http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/498b1c4f83ff53f7/4741e3c5156499a7/6c9794bf/-cpid/1d537b276b044422…

Dan and his wife Michelle stopped by Google on Monday. For those that couldn’t make it, we make many of our “tech talks” available on our YouTube channel. It’s here: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUEGzjnGsiA&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] It was great to see Dan in person, hear more of the story behind Daemon, and hear about the process of becoming a…

Keep your master’s voice in your mouth by paul curreri I love what Paul does with the words… I'd feel bad about butchering the song by singing it, but I've always adored this lyric: “In heaven there are vats of wine, I know a dude who’s stockpiling mine. He comes to me & says there’s…

Right before Google bought FeedBurner, I was inspired to set up a site to try and help parents stay on top of which toys might be harmful to their children. The site is called SaferToys.org, and the concept is simple: create a crowd-sourced site where parents can submit stories about harmful toys, or simply vote…

A couple weeks back, I indicated I was interested in adding a job board to my site to help out my friends who are currently looking for work. The suggestions that people provided me with in the comments and on Twitter weren’t really satisfactory: most of the services I looked at seemed designed to either…

The boys had their first experience with Pinewood Derby, and despite not having the fastest cars on the track, they definitely had some of the most stylish. Robby placed 2nd in his den for design, Ricky placed 3rd. 🙂 Not bad for a first year!

President Obama re-took the oath of office yesterday, due to an “abundance of caution” (per new White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs). I have an idea for Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media: Barack should take the oath of office every day and put it on YouTube. Think about it – you…

My old friend Hiram Wurf has an absolutely awesome Google Map showing which projects around the country are “shovel ready” once the infrastructure stimulus bill passes. First, the map: [googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107575130705572889675.0004609079503aa5310a6&source=embed&s=AARTsJocI7KNWXN29IElMu0AkVnCDNTOhg&ll=41.967659,-97.119141&spn=45.474974,74.707031&z=3&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Just a great example of how to use a Google tool to organize a set of data. Hiram used My Maps to build the…