Author: Rick Klau

  • Dean Meetup surpasses 25,000 members

    National Dean in 2004 Meetup Day — Join other Dean Supporters WHO Dean Supporters Worldwide. So far, 25002 have signed up.

  • A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web

    This is a great flashback. (Pop quiz: how many of the screen shots look familiar to you?) A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web: Reflections on microsoft.com from Birth to ‘Middle Age’ In the beginning, www.microsoft.com was just one computer tucked under a table at the end of a long hallway. It was designed…

  • Warren Says

    Warren Says Warren Buffett says: When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a “break” requires — now or down the line — that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can’t deliver a free lunch to…

  • RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions

    RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions From Thomas R. Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: “As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we’ve added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent decisions. There are two: http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/rss/0.91/supct_today.rss Actually the less-useful of the two feeds, this…

  • Gartner Hype Cycle and Blogs

    Andy has tapped into a large movement of “anti-weblogger ferver.” There are a lot of them out there, believe me. It’s just a natural cycle to go through. Weblogs have gotten a lot of hype. Now it’s time for the anti-hype cycle to happen. No biggie. I’ll keep weblogging whether it’s popular or not. [via…

  • Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing

    Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing I am not a Microsoft hater, Macintosh zealot, or Linux nerd. I do, however, believe in principled computing. My law office uses multiple operating systems and multiple applications, some open source, some not. I care more about how my data is formatted and stored than how the data is…

  • I win!

    In a battle of man vs. iPod, I won. It bent to my will, and finally accepted data from my computer. (Turns out the Apple tech support guy was right: it was the iPod, the cable or the Firewire card. The Firewire card, actually.) After replacing the Greek knock-off Firewire card (sold at the Apple…

  • InfoWorld: Reality Check on CRM

    InfoWorld: Microsoft’s entry into CRM shifts the market landscape: May 16, 2003: By Ephraim Schwartz: Applications Reality Check Microsoft’s entry into CRM shifts the market landscape By Ephraim Schwartz May 16, 2003 Interface Software is probably on the right track. Interface targets one market only, professional services – which for Interface includes billion-dollar law firms…

  • New iPod on XP?

    On a lark, I splurged last night and bought a 10 gig iPod. Five hours of maddening gadget hell later, I still do not have a single song on my iPod. I’m not exactly clueless when it comes to making tech stuff work, and this has been a remarkable exercise in frustration. The helpful (and…

  • 5/16: Party reckons with Dean phenomenon (Tom Curry, MSNBC)

    Party reckons with Dean phenomenon SEATTLE, May 17 – Under fire from the Democratic Leadership Council, a key business-friendly group, presidential contender Howard Dean is thriving on the criticism, drawing excited crowds on the campaign trail and making an unexpectedly strong bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination.