Author: Rick Klau

Ernie nails it : “[E]ven more important is the conversation that is taking place amongst lawyers in San Fransicso, Chicago, Maine, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Brussels.  Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web precisely so that such conversations could take place.  And people like Ev Williams and Dave Winer created simple tools to facilitate…

That’s it, I’ve got to read Cryptonomicon again – From CafeauLait.org: How did Enoch Root come back from the dead? He dies in Sweden in 1944 on on p. 541 when “the only other people in the room are Rudolf von Hackelheber, Bobby Shaftoe, and the Swedish doctor.” Then, 55 years later, Enoch Root shows…

My good buddy Erik Heels has published a fantastic primer on how to choose domain names. In a former life, Erik and I wrote a book togeter (the well-written but terribly-titled Law Law Law on the Internet) and we continue to co-author nothing.but.net for the American Bar Association. Today, Erik’s an IP lawyer based outside…

Guess this is as good a place as any to vent. I was invited to speak at a conference next week in DC. Attendees will be c-level marketing executives from the nation’s top law firms. While there are plenty of qualified possible speakers out there, the conference organizer invited me because we’ve known each other…

An absolutely wonderful day. Made waffles for everyone (my wife and two sons, and my in-laws are in town) to start the day, then spent all morning and early afternoon cooking with my wife. Butternut squash soup (from scratch), followed by turkey (which had brined for 9 hours, then air dryed for 12) that was…

Dry Ice in the Toilet. What happens when you put dry ice into an airplane toilet at 33,000 feet? One unfortunate pilot found out, and the story is priceless. He turns and looks at the toilet. But it has, for all practical purposes, disappeared, and where it once rested he now finds what he will…

Check this bit out from yesterday’s All Things Considered: John Freyer decided he had too much “stuff” in his life, so he decided to have a virtual yard sale on the Web. He wound up selling everything, including odd items like leftover pork rinds, a set of old false teeth and his own eye glasses.…

Nothing like flying 4000 miles, arriving late and having to go directly to your day-long meeting without so much as a swing by the hotel to take a shower! We were almost two hours late leaving O’Hare last night, arrived close to an hour late in London. Then the fun started – Heathrow Express took…

From Jeff’s Radio Weblog: Congratulations to Rick Klau who recently passed me on the all-time most-read list: 78. The Fat Guy30,374  79. tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog29,594  80. Jeff’s Radio Weblog29,590  81. Jeroen Bekkers’ Groove Weblog28,669  82. The .NET Guy28,660     6:10:05 PM  Link  Google It!Thanks, Jeff! And according to SiteMeter, I’m about to have my 20,000th visitor to the site (probably within the hour). Including page views from…

Here’s a trivia nugget for you: my alma mater plays tomorrow in the most played rivalry in college football. Do you know who is playing? (Hint: tomorrow will mark the 138th meeting of the two teams, 36 more meetings than Army-Navy and 20 more than Harvard-Yale.)