Author: Rick Klau

Santa was good to me this year: in addition to a Flip Mino HD to replace the Mino that was stolen at the Convention in August, I also got a guitar. I learned to play as a kid, but haven’t played in decades. One of my 2009 resolutions is to re-learn the guitar, and I…

Seven years ago today, I started this blog. Though the frequency of posts has declined over time (thanks in large part to Google Reader and Twitter), this site remains an integral part of my online routine. Thanks to everyone who reads, comments, and stops by.

Realized that I posted to Twitter last month but haven’t said anything here: we’re going to DC for President-elect Obama’s inauguration. Who else is going? Anyone care to share two tickets to a ball? 🙂 The reason we’re going is a bit different than you’d think. Back in March, during the interminable slog through the…

I re-added the FriendConnect sign-in widget on the blog last week, and earlier today I added back the wall gadget. Interested to see how useful it is – feel free to share videos, add your comments, or ignore it. 🙂

http://youtube.com/v/6NdAoMUW0wg This is an unreleased track by Paul Curreri that I found on YouTube. As with every other song by Paul, I adore it.

Had to pick up some wine at Merryvale, and decided to take a swing by Castello di Amorosa. A couple pictures: More pictures here.

Just got back from watching Quantum of Solace. It wasn’t as shockingly good as Casino Royale, but Craig sure is a great Bond. One nit: this director needs to watch his final print in a theater, and then tell me whether he can tell any of his actors apart during any of the action scenes.…

http://youtube.com/v/59IK28ry9eQ “Traditional sidewalk values”. Priceless. Still struggling to understand the whole protest-after-you-lose-the-vote thing, but I guess those are details.

It may strike some as odd that my first post-election political post would be about the GOP, but there you go: I’m a maverick. (Is it OK to use that word again? Or will it forever conjure up images of Tina Fey hawking “Palin 2012” t-shirts on QVC?) I’ve been heartened in conversations with friends…

In moving 3,000 posts over from WordPress to Blogger, errors when users visit old links are inevitable. My implementation of WordPress published posts to URLs that looked like this: http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2008/11/04/yes-we-did.php I’ve converted to Blogger, and Blogger’s permalinks are a tad different: http://tins.rklau.com/2008/11/yes-we-did.html Specific differences: no /archives sub-directory, no /day in the path (just /year and…