Author: Rick Klau

Finally broke down and bought a Treo (the 180) to replace my current cell phone and PDA. Thanks to Ernie’s rave reviews, I felt pretty confident that this was the right move. Bonus: it’s a GSM phone (so it’ll work in London, which I visit about every six weeks) and T-Mobile has the GPRS service…

I’ve been meaning to write something on the Total Information Awareness (TIA) inititive underway at that bulwark of civil liberties, the Bush Administration. But my travel schedule the past few weeks has been more than a bit hectic, and I haven’t gotten around to it. Declan McCullagh (DC correspondent for News.com) has an interesting little…

My long-time friend Josh Marshall is getting credit for much of the attention paid to Trent Lott’s offensive remarks last week. As well he should – nice work Josh!

Help from the CrowdI love this story. A ripoff artist gets caught because the network worked. A human network, in this case, augmenting the virtual one.[Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]

Want to change your Windows NT or Windows 2000 boot-up screen? Take a visit over to this site to follow some pretty straightforward instructions on how to do it. (Not for the faint of heart – you’re changing a Windows system file.) In about 20 minutes, I was able to add my company’s logo to…

I’m still alive. Quiet and exhausted, but alive. Yesterday was fairly typical of days on the road lately: 5am: alarm goes off. In a fog, I stumble out of bed. “Where am I?” Phone says Marriott Courtyard, Crystal City. “Right. DC.” “Why am I in DC?” “Why’s the alarm going off?” Shower clears the fog.…

The New York Times runs an article by Barnaby Feder announcing that WiFi is “hot” but that profit potential is “tepid”. (Always nice to see the Times doing its part for vocabulary appreciation.) A couple quotes: Many of the early leaders in Wi-Fi are obscure companies like Proxim, Buffalo, Linksys and Dlink. … [T]he communications…

The more I read about Howard Dean, the more I am convinced that he will be a serious candidate that will frighten the Republicans during primary season. Check out this article from a couple weeks ago in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. While some hint that he’s really just running for Vice President or Secretary…

From Jennifer Klyse, exactly the kind of project that would generate a tremendous amount of attention and awareness of how weblog technology can produce tangible benefits: What I’ve been working on when I haven’t been at work.. I had an idea for a newsfeed. Since I’ve become completely hooked on my aggregator in Radio, I find myself…

Will Ferrell as Santa Claus in a couple parodies of Apple’s Switch campaign… On Santa’s run-in with the law: “Merry Christmas! … or Happy Holidays! I could go either way.“ On Santa’s iPod: “980 Christmas songs. And 20 Doobie Brothers. And 1 Sheryl Crow.“ Yes, the Ellen Feiss ad is funny. But there’s something about…