Author: Rick Klau

Chris Smith reports in: KM – google mentalityYou don’t even notice it happening. But one day your hooked. That single textbox with the silly name is an awesome primary source. It’s amazing how effective it is. When I’m looking for an coding answer I used to go to MSDN. But in the past year the…

It’s official. Search for Rick at Google… Sports writers Rick Telander or Rick Reilly? Nope. Texas Governor Rick Perry? Rick Lazio? Ricky Nelson? All pretenders. Of course, I’ve got a ways to go before I can claim #3 like Ernie can…

On breaks in college and law school, I worked at The Nature Company. During my lunch hour, I would almost always grab a Galen Rowell book – my favorite by far was The Yosemite. Yosemite has long been one of my favorite places on earth, and the book – Galen Rowell’s photos coupled with John Muir’s…

I think this should be an option built in to Radio, but it’s relatively easy for you to do on your own. Here’s the issue: Radio is a web content management system – when you add content to Radio, it automatically uploads that content to your website. For many users, their web site is hosted…

ACLU Launches TIPS Watch Web Site, ACLU – “The ACLU needs your help today to defeat this massive invasion of personal privacy before it can take root!” In a related article, see “A Site to Despise Untrained Spies,” http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0%2C1283%2C54492%2C00.html. [LLRX Newstand]Anyone who is interested in my post a few weeks back about Ashcroft’s Operation TIPS…

Network World Article on Blogging. I was interviewed for this article on blogging and using it in large organizations a few weeks ago.  Most of the interest was generated by my offer to pay for blogging software for the first 100 State IT workers to start one.  [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog]

After experiencing some frustration with the time it takes pages to load on this site (for those who are interested, it seems to primarily be a function of the complex nested tables that make up the underlying HTML), I’m going to try to learn enough CSS to redo this site without using tables. Any suggestions…

Prof. Manindra Agarwal and two of his students, Nitin Saxena and Neeraj Kayal (both BTech from CSE/IITK who have just joined as Ph.D. students), have discovered a polynomial time deterministic algorithm to test if an input number is prime or not. Lots of people over (literally!) centuries have been looking for a polynomial time test…

What comes to mind when I mention these names? William Buckley, Dan Quayle, Ken Starr, and Tom Delay. Did you say cruise? I thought so! Click if you dare…

Great article from Strategy + Business, Booz Allen’s in-house publication: CEO vs. CIO: Can This Marriage Be Saved? It focuses on the unfortunate tension between many CEOs and their CIOs. Some relevant quotes: The problem is that most CEOs are interested in technology only to the extent that it adds value to the organization. To them,…