Author: Rick Klau

Rich at Capitol Fax has the scoop: the AFL-CIO just endorsed Tammy Duckworth in the primary race where she’s running against Christine Cegelis and Lindy Scott.

Yep, I want this. Very cool. And the other Mac announcements (particularly the photo sharing, blog updating and video updates) are enough to convince me that our next home computer will be a Mac (sooner rather than later, our home PC is on its last legs). Best news of all? My iPod’s not obsolete. Looks…

I’m excited to share the news that Markos Moulitsas (founder and owner of DailyKos.com ) is coming to Naperville in a couple weeks to help us kick of 2006 and talk about what’s needed to build a strong, permanent Democratic presence in DuPage County. Details are forthcoming — like last year, our silent auction will…

We had a wonderful Christmas at the Klau house. But I feel compelled to share a few lessons learned this Christmas: Amazon.com needs to mark their boxes as “wrapped” or “unwrapped”. There is nothing more annoying than opening a box with a gift for you in it, unwrapped… and no way to see who it’s…

The big gift under the tree this year was a video iPod, and I’m in love. I’ve already started loading it up with some video blogs, and I’m currently experimenting with the best way to rip DVDs to video that the iPod can see. So far, the easiest option seems to be PQ DVD, which…

My letter to the editor of The Naperville Sun, in response to columnist Tim West’s support of President Bush’s wiretaps. Hopefully it’ll get published soon.

Oh my God, this post by Heather Armstrong (aka “Dooce”) will leave you gasping for air. Riotously funny.

DNC blog, giving us the President’s quote on April 20, 2004: Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. New York Times article that broke the story on Friday about the Bush Administration…

Om Malik on Broadband : » Performancing for Firefox, Awesome In fact, if I have to use a PC, then this will be my choice of blogging application. Performancing for Firefox is just the kind of simple, lightweight application I had imagined was possible when researching my story, Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare. Totally agree with Om:…

Wow, I almost forgot. I started this blog four years ago today. The blog is directly responsible for my last two jobs, led me to meet too many people to name individually who I know consider close friends, resulted in me meeting one presidential candidate, hosting a hopefully future presidential candidate in my family room,…