Author: Rick Klau

Well, my sincere apologies to those of you who read this site in a feed reader… a combination of Movable Type database hiccups and my own inept attempts at hacking the system resulted in a disaster in my feed. It should be back to normal now, but likely errors you would have seen include previously…

Very cool: while watching video of the Vice President’s accidental shooting of a hunting partner (kudos to the VP’s camp for blaming it on the guy who got shot, by the way), I noticed a little icon next to “email this” and “copy link to clipboard”: Smart.

Every year for at least the last 10, I’ve used TurboTax to do our taxes. And each year, we’ve spent at least a few hours going through the dozen or more Goodwill receipts to try and figure out the value of what we donated in the past year. When done, TurboTax would cast a wary…

I just got word that I’ll be talking at next month’s Politics Online conference at George Washington University. Predictably, I’ll be talking about podcasting, RSS, and how they can be used effectively in politics. I’m excited, not least of which because this is about as perfect an intersection of my job (RSS, podcasting) with my…

File this under, “If I can do it, you can do it”: I created my own piece of FeedFlare to add a little functionality to my feed tonight. The API documentation is fantastic, so if you have even rudimentary familiarity with programming, you should be able to cobble something together. Mine simply adds a permalink…

A long-overdue update to my post from a couple weeks back. I noticed a few glitches with the copy of WeatherBug that CTO Chris Sloop handed out at Gnomedex last summer, and blogged about it. Sure enough, Chris called me (one of the many reasons I put my cell phone number on the site) and…

Forgot to note that I registered for Gnomedex 6 last week. Very excited to be going to Seattle again this year. Who else is going?

I’ve been traveling the last few days, so the media coverage surrounding the escalating violence over the editorial cartoons depicting Mohammed had largely gone by me. In between meetings in Manhattan yesterday, I stopped in a Starbucks to catch up on email, and caught this headline at CNN.com which (for me at least) seemed to…

Will sent me a link to the Freakonomics blog post about how Senator Obama drops his kids off at nursery school, and how lunch with the Senator at an upcoming fundraiser is expected to go for $20,000. One man who won’t be bidding? John McCain. Ouch.

I downloaded beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 yesterday, and I’m stunned. In less than two hours, it had replaced Firefox as my default browser, and I’ve been a Firefox bigot for more than two years. In no particular order, some thoughts on what IE7 does well: Tabbed browsing. Firefox had this before IE, of…