Author: Rick Klau

This is hilarious. (Hat tip: So-Called Austin Mayor) Vote for the hottest U.S. Senator. Note, however: We decided Barack Obama is so hot that he’d wipe the floor with any of the others, so he’s excluded from this contest.

A friend has asked for a recommendation of a local web designer who’s comfortable working with small businesses, reasonably priced, etc. If that sounds like you, drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch with my friend (a Chicago business).

Caught at /., Google has filed a patent application for its PageRank technology. Nothing necessarily shocking — slow and steady, get inbound links, don’t be evil kind of stuff — but very interesting to see it spelled out.

Ernie passes the baton to me, and asks: what is my total volume of music what is the last CD I bought what song is playing right now what five songs do I listen to a lot because they are special to me five people I’m passing the musical baton to Like Ernie, music is…

The list of US Senators who chose not to co-sponsor the lynching apology adopted at the U.S. Senate yesterday: Alexander, Lamar (R – TN) Bennett, Robert (R – UT) Cochran, Thad (R – MS) Cornyn, John (R – TX) Crapo, Michael (R – ID) Enzi, Michael (R – WY) Grassley, Chuck (R – IA) Gregg,…

Knox College has the audio up in Windows Media format, but I figured that might be a bit tricky for any non-PC users out there. (And they’ve buried the audio file in a pop-up window that makes it hard to actually find and download the file.) So I grabbed the WMA file and converted it…

Just had my domain shut down by my webhost for about 15 minutes. I checked it out, turns out it was due to “CPU Abuse”. Translated, that means that the deluge of hits to my mt-tb.cgi and mt-comments.cgi files (the two scripts that Movable Type uses to handle trackbacks and comments) were getting hammered so…

I learned of Jim Keane’s passing from Monica Bay’s blog last week, and today received an e-mail from Andy Adkins which included a link to the guestbook provided by the funeral home where Jim’s funeral will be. For those that didn’t know Jim, he was an early evangelist for the transforming role technology would play…

I have a Windows Media audio file (.wma) that I’d like to convert to MP3. Anyone have a simple way to do it? Once I have the conversion done, I’ll share the audio — it’s of a recent event that I think people will want to hear.

Saw this in our elevator the other day, and was intrigued: Fish & Richardson is advertising on the Captivate Network. Wonder if any other law firms are doing this? Certainly seems like a great idea: quick ads, captive audience, and almost guaranteed repeat viewings by your audience. (I’ve seen it at least a dozen times…