Author: Rick Klau

Hilarious quote from a not so funny situation: “It’s for fun and games,” spokeswoman Katie Kroft said.“This is why we have everybody sign a waiver.” Someone needs to go back to media training. When kids are injured, the words “fun” and “games” shouldn’t be in your lexicon.

At the kids barber shop, heard this: “She says she’s a Christian, but there’s no way. And besides, she’s asking me for a divorce, the least she can do is let me claim the kid on my tax return. I need that 500 bucks.” The “gentleman” was on his cell phone for the entire time…

The blog of the individual who killed a 10 year-old girl, is here. It would seem that these posts (1, 2, 3, and 4) suggest that he was lonely, didn’t have much luck with a couple of girls, and lost a couple friends when he was in high school and college. In other words, just…

NBC-iVillage Term Sheet: Six Serious Bidders; Hearst Issue Predominant | paidContent.org (tags: Hearst iVillage NBC media) Chicago Tribune | Bush: `Full support’ Maybe “full support” is just this month’s “heckuva job, Rummy”? (tags: Bush Rumsfeld Iraq) On the ballot: Pull troops out of Iraq? Getting active locally is good. But Iraq policy is as far…

That’s a little eerie… last night I wrote about familyware, and today Steve Rubel points out that Jot is offering one-click family sites. Doesn’t look like they solve the syncing issue I raised last night, but for a web-based offering, this looks pretty good.

I love – and I mean love – Google calendar’s interface. It’s just right. And Charlene Li’s observation that it’ll help her with planning a kid’s play date hits on an important, even critical, problem this solves: familyware. What do I mean? Robin uses Outlook on her home computer, which syncs with her Blackberry. I…

Quick update on my transition to WordPress… this has by far been the smoothest conversion between blog platforms. (By comparison, converting from Radio to Movable Type took a couple of weeks of effort.) Some additional tweaks I’ve added since last night: Now reading plugin. Lets me identify what book I’m currently reading, links to Amazon.com…

It recently came to my attention that someone who I’ve known for over 3 years is insisting that I’m working hard to undermine efforts to build a strong Democratic Party in DuPage County. This individual has repeated these claims at local meetings (of interest groups and township party meetings), as well as on e-mail mailing…

Just caught this 2 week-old quote from Mark Beese: Rick Klau once told me that blogs are an online, two-way conversation about ideas. I am surprised, and very pleased, to discover this to be true. Mark, I’ll assume your surprise isn’t because it was me saying it. 😉 Mark was writing about the conversation that…

For those who care about such things, I migrated this blog from Movable Type to WordPress. Why the switch? For starters, my MT install was starting to accumulate quite a bit of cruft, and it was taking increasingly long to post to the blog. Furthermore, attempts to weed out comment spam were blocking legitimate commenters,…