Author: Rick Klau

I finally got around to updating the site’s look and feel. You’ll recall that I recently converted from Radio Userland to Movable Type; in that conversion I made the decision to stick with a standard template so that I wouldn’t run the risk of losing something important. This weekend I learned the ins and outs…

Speaking about the $1m raised online by the Dean for America campaign, Information Week columnist John Soat says: John Soat > IT Confidential: Spam Vs. Fund-Raising—A Clear Distinction > May 26, 2003” href=“http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10100230”>It’s not like that money is going to buy Howard Dean a chance against George Bush. My guess is, the contributors thought they…

Prof. Lessig wonders (after finding out that Starbucks corporate policy is to prevent any photos being taken): I wonder what would happen if hundreds of people from around the country experimented this holiday weekend by taking pictures at their local Starbucks… Check it out… taken during a Meetup for Governor Howard Dean (taken by a…

Untelevised [T]wo revelations have led me to the conclusion that Howard Dean just might represent the one and only hope of the Democratic party. Matthew Langer’s observations are worth reading for a number of reasons. Most significantly, he was active in Gary Hart’s exploratory presidential bid and has been highly critical of Governor Dean in…

There’s no single answer to the question, “Why do you blog?” But the last week has certainly given me some very personal reasons for enjoying it: unsolicited positive feedback from a variety of sources. Ernie thanks me for talking about an important issue, Rory thanks me for my writing, Jerry says I’m pretty smart for…

I’ve written about Chandler before, but I thought this was a good overview of what Cisco’s doing. law.com – The Cisco Kid [F]ew in-house departments are doing as much as Cisco Systems Inc. The 55 lawyers at the San Jose, Calif.-based network equipment supplier are using technology to handle discovery, track costs, create contracts —…

Ed Cone: “The blogosphere should be crackling over the story of Tom DeLay and the runaway Texas legislators, but it’s not, at least not yet.” [via Scripting News]

Here we go… Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire DeLay Admits Role In Searching For DemocratsHouse Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) “admitted” he “provided Texas Speaker Tom Craddick® with the same information that state police used to enlist a homeland security agency in the search for runaway Democratic legislators” last week, the Houston Chronicle reports. Meanwhile, the…

Zen and the Art of Data Restoration Standardization is elusive, even though there are so many standards to choose from. Or perhaps because there are so many. Nevertheless, for many years I have been pursuing an elusive goal of digitizing, standardizing, and archiving all of mydata. In this chapter of the journey, I ended up…

Wasn’t Google’s acquisition of Blogger heralded in part for the move to “Google’s more reliable servers“? From status.blogger.com yesterday: BlogSpot has been especially sluggish recently and we are working hard to improve the situation. We sincerely apologize that the problem has taken longer to resolve than expected and for the frustration of having poor performance…