Author: Rick Klau

Google Finds Brand Power. The search king finished ahead of such names as Coca-Cola and Starbucks for world’s top brand. [The Motley Fool]In other words, an insiginificant polling sample with an indeterminate number of people from unknown backgrounds voted on a subject. And from this, we get “world’s top brand”? Please. For a more, uh,…

Army Scimitar armoured vehicles patrol terminal 4 of London’s Heathrow airport, February 11, 2003. Britain drafted hundreds of troops into Heathrow airport and other key sites around London on Tuesday as a precaution against possible al Qaeda attacks during the Muslim festival of Eid. (source: REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid)Did I mention I’m in London?

Now that I’m in the UK, I have my first chance to test out my Treo. It’s a GSM phone, so it works internationally (which is great). One annoyance though – I need to dial a + before any U.S. number, and I need to drop the country code for any local (UK) numbers. Any…

… could you please verify that this blog loads properly and displays black text on a white background? I got an e-mail yesterday from someone who is seeing black text on a blue background (they’re using IE 5.x and confirmed it on both OSX and OS9). It would appeear to be a CSS deficiency in…

Several new articles in the press clipping page – including a good overview in The NY Times yesterday about Gov. Dean’s position on Iraq. And speaking of “Gov. Dean” – the Dean Blog raises a question that has puzzled me as well: is it Governor Dean, Former Governor Dean, Dr. Dean, or something else? The convention when…

I have no idea what Tom Ridge’s color scheme means, though I thought SNL’s parody – which had the color chart in various shades of white (bone, off-white, cream, etc.) was hysterical. But this news – that the UK troops are being brought in to guard Heathrow through Saturday – does not make me happy.…

Doc Searls stolen laptop. What’s Up, Doc?. Like many of you, I was shocked when I learned that my buddy Doc had his laptop stolen. What a crock! Well, it’s time to give back to the man who’s given so much to this community. I’ve set up a PayPal donation link. Let’s get that man…

Josh Marshall wants to know who else got help from GOP Marketplace last election. Yeah, I think I’d like to know too. This is what they refer to as “honor and dignity”, right?

Now this is more like it. The ABA goes beyond the obvious soundbite and actually digs a little, exposing some of the root causes of Brobeck’s failure. Turns out the firm borrowed heavily to finance the debt – the article not-so-subtly lays this decision at Tower Snow’s feet – and couldn’t make its quarterly partner…

If you know the rest of the words to that song (“cold spaghetti, cold spaghetti, mash banana, mash banana”) then you’ll appreciate this article at Newsweek on The Wiggles. My wife and I took our two sons to a concert last fall in Chicago, and it was surprisingly fun. The kids (well, the two year-old,…