Author: Rick Klau

In June, 2004, I posted the lyrics to “Become America” by The Call. It remains a favorite of mine – I think Michael Been does a wonderful job of capturing the mixture of patriotism and frustration that I felt throughout much of President Bush’s term. Thanks to the iLike gadget, I added a clip of…

We are one. Yes we can. Hope. In a campaign known for its slogans, I find it hard to reduce my thoughts about President Obama inauguration to a few words. But if I had to choose, I’d have to start with my kids. I suppose it was inevitable that I would look at my children’s…

A couple weeks ago, Robin and I took a look at some of our bills and realized we were over-paying for several of our basics. We had TV and Internet through Comcast, and phone service with AT&T. By bringing the phone over to Comcast, we cut our monthly costs for the three services in half.…

I mentioned last night that you should “join” my site using FriendConnect, Google’s service for adding social tools to sites. What I’ve enjoyed so far about FriendConnect is the way in which it makes public the individuals who hang out here. I don’t have a huge audience, but those who do hang out tend to…

I’m going to start playing around with my FriendConnect-enabled page, so if you haven’t already, head to the site and join up.

One of the hardest things to hear from a friend is that they’ve lost their job. Doesn’t matter if it’s a lay-off, a personality conflict with the CEO, a start-up changing directions… I’ve lost count at the number of close friends who are either actively looking for a job or giving serious thought to changing…

Just downloaded “a-blogger” from the android market, an early Blogger client for Android.No label support, doesn’t look look like text auto-correct or images are supported either. More soon.

One of the things I miss about living in Illinois was the regular group of friends I had over to play poker. A wonderful byproduct of the never-ending basement finishing project was that I had room for a poker table. Every few months, I had a bunch of friends over, and usually lost money while…

Three years ago, I had a pretty funny run-in with a spammer with a sense of humor. Instead of just spamming people, he hacked a mailing list, and spammed the mailing list. What’s funny about that? Everyone who replied replied to the mailing list, which meant that each complaint generated more complaints, and so on…

Got a call yesterday from the Dean of my law school, who was calling to let me know that the student committee responsible for picking a commencement speaker had asked to invite me. I’m more than a little blown away by this: it’s an incredible honor, but it’s also daunting (to say the least). So…