Author: Rick Klau

I upgraded the back-end of this weblog to Movable Type 3.16 — so far, nothing appears to be misbehaving. I have noticed one of their reported bug-fixes: no more cryptic error messages during site rebuilds! I’d long ago learned to ignore them, but it’s nice to know that they really were harmless (and equally nice…

Jake assures me that today’s Tribune has a picture accompanying this story about Joe Trippi’s new venture. In that picture is a curious sight: Joe Trippi holding a diet Coke. Say it ain’t so! What next? He’s secretly working for the GOP?

I’m looking forward to going to Gnomedex this year; it’ll be my first time, looks like it’ll be a ton of fun. Fellow Naperville blogger Mike Marusin will be there… who else that swings by here from time to time will be in Seattle next month?

OK gang, I need your help. The Shaun Jackson “Back Office” backpack was a bust. While it sported a unique design, I found it highly impractical on the airplane; in order to access any of the pockets (of which there are too few, by the way), you need to completely unfold the backpack — not…

Picked up this nugget from David Allen’s Getting Things Done blog: Interesting thing about Flagstone is that one of their silver bullets is a company blog that they use to post up-to-the-minute potentially relevant data from their research in that industry. It has supported their positioning as the go-to people in that niche, because it…

Scoble pointed to this tragic post from Michael Giagnocavo, who buried his daughter today. She was five days old when she died. Like Scoble, I was not able to read Michael’s post without weeping. Sobbing, actually. I can’t begin to fathom the depth of Michael’s grief, nor can I pretend to empathize. Rest in Peace,…

Last night I installed MT-Keystrokes (hat tip to Erik for the pointer). It’s a simple, if clever, piece of anti-spam technology for Movable Type comments. MT-Blacklist does a good job of catching most of the comments submitted, but there are a ton of comments submitted that are queued for approval, and deleting them from the…

Great post by Adrian Trenholm (link via Lifehacker). A snippet: I wanted to take email which I didn’t want to deal with straight away, remove it from my inbox, then have it automatically reappear in my inbox when I was ready to work on it. Having read Merlin Mann’s email diet, I hit on the…

The other day, taking the train home from work, the guy behind me was ringtone shopping the entire trip. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the hip-hop chart-toppers on a Motorola phone in an otherwise quiet train car. Ironically, when his phone finally did ring, it was obvious that he hadn’t actually bought any of…

Sony billboard in NYC Originally uploaded by rklau. Originally seen at “HuffingtonPost”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jonah-peretti/sony-psp-powered-by-micro_1398.html.