Author: Rick Klau

Where’s Baudrillard?. Brent Staples claims to have learned something about French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s opinions of “The Matrix,” a movie that borrows heavily from Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. However, Staples’ short piece on the subject has a lot less of what Baudrillard thinks of “The Matrix” and a lot more of what Staples thinks of…

On this last trip, I finished reading Interface by Stephen Bury. (Bury is Neal Stephenson’s pen name.) It’s not traditional Stephenson fare – while he definitely gets the technology right, this is much more of a political thriller. There are threads of Robert Ludlum in here, what with the shadowy multi- national syndicates and vast…

Good thread on institutional memory and attrition at law firms: I imagine it’s very frustrating to spend 5-7 years somewhere building up a set of tools and having to leave it behind when you go. Not an easy job. I happen to think that the tangible things like documents and databases, while valuable, pale in…

“You can use Natara Bonsai to do this…” [YACCS Comments for tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog]We have a winner! Thanks to the comment above, I now have a functional copy of my Radio outlines on my Palm. It’s not perfect (it involves a two-step process to go from Radio to the Palm), but it works.…

Struggling Airline Helped By Friendly GiantFORT WORTH, TX— Hit hard by the recession and the aftermath of Sept. 11, American Airlines has received some much-needed assistance from a friendly giant named Urno. “Urno has been of enormous help to us, mostly by picking up planes and running them to their destinations to cut fuel expenses,”…

I’m on the road on the west coast tonight, and got to the hotel in time to watch the 24 season finale. I’ve been hooked since the first episode (I’ve always been a Kiefer Sutherland fan). In spite of the fact that this is the conclusion to twenty-four episodes, and that it will no doubt…

Thanks to Dave for linking to my request for help on OPML to Palm integration; I’ve had three recommendations (ShadowPlan, Progect, and one other). Shadow seems the most likely candidate for success – it uses XML, just not OPML (it wasn’t out when Jeff Mitchell, the author, started working on it). An XSLT style sheet to translate…

I’m heading to San Antonio now, speaking at the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Conference. Updates may be sporadic for a few days…

I’m just now starting to understand the power of Radio’s outliner as a content creation tool; see this article as a great overview of how you can use the outliner for more than is immediately apparent. I just love that with each day, I learn more about what Radio can do. (Even more impressive: these…

Broke down and bought another Palm (an m125 on eBay) over the weekend. I hadn’t replaced my old one last year, but finally ran out of patience. Here’s my question: I now rely on my Radio Outliner. I no longer use my tasks/ to do list in Outlook because the hierarchical view of items is…