Author: Rick Klau

Bag and Baggage – Denise Howell: D conference highlights  Technology is not as easy and cheap as it could be, not yet the ultimate tool. There’s nothing more fun than working in this industry. — Bill Gates, on why he’s still working. I’m so jealous of Denise – D sounds like quite the conference. Denise’s…

If you haven’t been by HowardDean.tv in a few days, swing by – they have new video of the Governor’s speech in Sacramento in March (at the Democratic Convention). While this speech has been widely seen (it is still available at C-Span and Carl with a K’s site), this is near-DVD quality video. For those…

If you’re interested, there’s a good thread over at Slate Magazine about the Democratic race (as reported in Saletan’s piece “Democrats Turn Left“).

Bloglet is a neat little XML-RPC service that parses RSS feeds and sends them via e-mail to subscribers. (If that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you, read below.) But in the past month it appears to have choked – the website is dead (I tried repeatedly to connect to it last night and this…

News: Lieberman woos tech leaders In some early maneuvering for the 2004 election, a group of technology executives and venture capitalists said Wednesday that they believe Sen. Joseph Lieberman is the best choice for president. Getting John Doerr (a huge contributor and quite a force in the tech industry) is a coup for the Lieberman…

I could really use five minutes of your time if you’re a CSS wiz. For whatever reason, IE 6 is misformatting my home page. It loads the entire page, but then only displays column one (with the blog posts) up to the point at which column two ends. Everything that falls below that point is…

I admit it, I did it. And according to The Geek Test, I scored a 37.86982%, which makes me a “Major Geek”. Thanks to Jim McGee, who linked to this. (And he kicks my butt as a geek – and scores 53%, making him a Super Geek.) How’d you do?

More proof that efficiency will matter to in-house lawyers who hire law firms “Mobile phone operator O2 has instituted a radical new initiative in its legal department, which will include slashing its current panel of 38 law firms by two-thirds.nbsp… The litigation and mediation group of O2nbspis studying previous O2 disputes to assess whether they…

David Weinberger (author, blogger) proudly proclaims he’s a Dean volunteer (I hadn’t heard this before, and it’s just one more sign that the Internet cognoscenti will increasingly coalesce around Governor Dean’s campaign) in his article about how poorly the various presidential candidates are using the Internet (with one exception, that will come as no surprise…

Today I started work on porting the k-collector client to MovableType. [via Curiouser and curiouser!] This is exciting. Matt is the brains behind liveTopics, a product that fundamentally enhanced mynbspuse of Radio. Now that I’m a Movable Type user, I think this is a very encouraging sign. Matt – need beta testers? 🙂