Author: Rick Klau

While in DC last week, I took the kids to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport. It’s part of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, created in part to display thousands of items that they just can’t fit into the museum on the Mall in Washington. As a kid, I wanted to be…

Sports Illustrated has a “25 Most Intriguing Characters” feature up at their website. Problem with #25: Flutie’s receiver was Gerard Phelan, not Gerald Phelan. Come on S.I., that’s a gimmie.

Steve Rubel catches a good case of a large company doing the unthinkable: listening. Want to keep a customer for life? Listen and respond to them. That’s exactly what Unilever did. Apparently the consumer product giant was actively listening to the blogosphere and they tuned into one voice, Dan Entin. Dan had been lamenting about…

Working for a company that many have described as a “Web 2.0” company, I absolutely love this characterization of what Web 2.0 means… I somehow missed this post from IBM developer James Snell written in May.  He describes Web 2.0 as “chmod 777 web“.  He adds some perspective on what Web 2.0 means to him:…

Whoa, nelly. Makes you want to get into the movie business, making movies nobody ever sees: Via Phosita: Story on the $17.5 million clearance of rights of Dukes of Hazzard. [The Trademark Blog]

Haven’t vanished… had a great time ‘down the shore’ in New Jersey, then turned right around and hit the road. Will be back in Illinois this weekend, and life will return to some semblance of normal.

We hit the road for the east coast in the morning, visiting my parents in Avalon, New Jersey (on the shore). Can’t wait, I hear the water’s warm and it promises to be sunny almost the entire week. No blogging until I’m back. Something tells me you’ll manage.

…Which would make our latest announcement kind of big.

Wow — just updated my Treo with the updater for my Cingular Treo 650 and the results are pretty incredible. Available memory on the phone went from 4 megabytes to over 10 megabytes, thanks to the changes in the Palm file system). What does that mean? In the old filesystem, files took up a minimum…

It started harmlessly enough: giving a speech in front of a room of 400 attendees, my tongue hit my teeth just right. Though I’d had braces as a teen, my teeth had spent the last ten years on an inexorable march towards overbite, overcrowding and, well, chaos. Of my front four teeth on the bottom,…