Author: Rick Klau

I’m settling in for a wonderful evening of food, toy assembling and a sip or three of wine. I’m sure the two year-old will have us up before daybreak, so I’l likely be out of touch for a few days. For everyone reading this, I hope you have a relaxing, enjoyable few days. Merry Christmas!

I played around with Movable Type over the weekend, then went off the deep end and installed Movable Type locally and used Radio to publish it up to the web. This is probably (OK, almost certainly) one of those “because you can” moments that has no practical value, but then again, it might actually make…

The next five months are going to seem like an eternity. Check out this article on The Matrix in this week’s Newsweek, where we learn: On the climactic car chase in Reloaded (Matrix 2): The ensuing sequence may be the most audaciously conceived, thrillingly executed car chase ever filmed. Sounds like hype, yeah. But you’ve…

MSNBC: Lott Steps Down as Senate Majority Leader. He’s staying on as a Senator.

I started this blog one year ago today. Many thanks to all of you who continue to stop by and read.

I like the idea behind Creative Commons, the license project designed to make the distribution of intellectual property more flexible. Read more about it at their FAQ, or just go ahead and get yourself a license. I just added a button to this site that permits copying, displaying, or performance (!) of work on this…

Well, so much for being excited about my Treo arriving. I ordered the Treo on Monday morning, around 9:30am central. By about 4pm, T-Mobile had approved me for service and I was told: See that “awaiting shipment” in the right-hand column? Just in case you weren’t sure what it meant (I sure thought I knew…

I’m a huge fan of John Cusack’s (though I’m not sure I’d vote for him for president) and I think Identity – starring Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall and Rebecca DeMornay – looks awfully spooky. Scheduled release date is March 21, 2003. Check out the trailer at Apple.com.

Internet World ran a case study this week about Lincoln Partners, a Chicago-based investment bank. They recently purchased InterAction for business development and client service. Lincoln Partners plans to use InterAction 5 to manage both its strategic and tactical business development initiatives and the processing of transactions. The firm will now be able to execute…

UPDATE: (10:05pm CST) Not that it much matters, but the directory of RSS files at Blogspot sites is back up. Go to http://blogname.blogspot.com/rss/ where blogname is the name of whatever blog you visit. Using the URL below (http://appellateblog.blogspot.com/rss/) produces an apparent list of all BlogSpot RSS feeds. (And for those that asked: this isn’t a…