Author: Rick Klau

We haven’t moved in 90 minutes, the last conductor update was that they were trying to get a diesel to pull us into Wilmington. No word on what will happen after that. Meanwhile, Chris Casey reports in my comments that we’re a top developing story on CNN, and we’re a front page story at CNN.com…

WCBS reports that all service between Boston and DC is suspended. Groovy.

OK, I have to give the Acela conductor credit. He’s hopping on the intercom periodically to give us updates. Five minutes ago: “We haven’t heard anything new, we keep calling but we have no further info on the ETA on a fix for this situation. In the meantime, if anyone can sing, please come to…

Was stuck in traffic yesterday en route to Baltimore for a family event (no, I was not driving!) and was able to stay online for 2 full hours. No interruptions in service… while the speed wasn’t super zippy, it was absolutely perfect for email, IM and casual browsing. What would’ve been a huge hole in…

As I mentioned last night, I downloaded the Office 2007 beta 2 and have been using it today to see how it works. Outlook’s support for feeds is pretty interesting, so I thought I’d give a run-down on my initial reactions. More after the jump. First off, since I’d already installed IE7 previously, Outlook detected…

Seen over at Uneasy Silence, the Office 2007 Beta is now available for download. I’m downloading it overnight, should be ready to play with tomorrow… I’m eager to see what they’ve done with RSS outside of IE7. Download link is here.

Filling out an expense report the other day, I was shocked to see how much money I’m spending each month on Internet access: airports routinely get you for $5-10 per day, T-Mobile can add another $20-30/month for periodic access at Starbucks in between meetings while on the road, and hotels are generally $15 or more…

I meant to blog about this when the paper arrived, just found a scan of it while browsing flickr. Amazing. THE DAY THE LAWN WASN’T MOWED Originally uploaded by buriednexttoyou.

New laptop more ThinkPad than not – Tech News & Reviews – MSNBC.com I want this laptop. Not exactly a ThinkPad, but an ultra-portable machine that sounds wonderful. (tags: thinkpad lenovo ultraportable laptop)

del.icio.us/help/firefox/success Finally re-installed the Firefox del.icio.us plugin, bookmark sharing will recommence momentarily. 🙂 (tags: firefox plugins delicious) Chicago Cubs : The Official Site Good news: Cubs can’t lose tonight. (That they’re not playing tonight is beside the point.) (tags: cubs) Odograph.com » Blog Archive » Where are the orange roughie? Inside joke. Turns out Don…