Author: Rick Klau

Just got back from voting. Our primary isn’t for another week, but I wanted to test out the Diebold machines that DuPage County contracted to use last year. No, this isn’t dirty political tricks, it’s called Early Voting (not to be confused with absentee voting, or absentee-in-person voting). Confused? Yeah, most people are when they…

In a bi-partisan gesture the likes of which would make James Carville and Mary Matalin proud, I’m proud to announce that I’ve hired Jake Parrillo at FeedBurner. Rumor has it there are some well-known Republican blogs out there (!), so I’m guessing Jake will have more than enough to keep him busy in his first…

Congrats to Jim & team for the new site at BarackObama.com. Lots of good content, and I’ve been promised some cool new features in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned.

Two years ago, I saw Big Fish for the first time, and wrote about my response after we got home. I’ve since watched it several times, and bought a copy for my Dad last Christmas. It’s a great movie, I think I’ll watch it again this weekend.

Hearty congratulations are in order for Debra Shore, a friend of mine who’s running for commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District in Cook County. Today she received the Chicago Tribune’s endorsement, which is a terrific acknowledgement by the Trib of her commitment to the environment, her eagerness to be a responsible steward in Cook…

I was quite fortunate to have dinner this evening with Andrea Weckerle. Andrea and I went to law school together, and we’ve both chosen what the law school career office no doubt calls the “alternative route”. (Which is to say, neither of us is practicing law. And from the tone of tonight’s dinner conversation, it’s…

Check out Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post about why you should use FeedBurner. Thanks, Marshall! (One note, Marshall — redirecting your feed to FeedBurner is a painless and effective way of making sure you don’t segment your audience.)

Elena, the girl who died a couple weeks ago (whose father is keeping a blog) has been on my mind a lot the last couple days. In particular, something that her Dad wrote as he was starting to chronicle the mourning of his daughter’s passing: How often have you been with your child and not…

You know how on Lost, random animals show up that may or may not mean something? Woke up this morning, and six wild turkeys were in our front yard: Reminder: we live in a suburb of 150,000 residents. Where did these turkeys come from? Why? The boys (and the dog!) sure loved them.

Andrea Weckerle pointed to this blog authored by the father of a six year-old girl who died last week of bacterial meningitis. My son turns six next week, I’m not sure I have any words right now. I can’t begin to comprehend losing one of my children with no warning, from healthy to dead in…