Author: Rick Klau

Interesting: a tech growth fund managed by a family in Naperville, IL: Calamos Growth  is the largest fund run by Calamos Asset Management Inc., based in Naperville, Ill. Tech Dose Information  [Technorati] naperville   “Assets have swelled 64 percent from $8.5 billion a year ago and have more than tripled during the past two years.…

Woke up last night to a call from my in-laws; my wife’s 96 year-old grandmother died at the age of 96. The woman was a force to be reckoned with who lived life on her terms and ensured we all knew where we belonged. I first met her at the family “camp” in Maine nearly…

Just finished reading Ragtime Blues in today’s Chicago Tribune. What a powerful article: Reginald Robinson, a drop-out from inner-city Chicago holed up in his bedroom and taught himself to play ragtime piano, and emerged just a few years later as a genius piano player who could evoke the ghost of Scott Joplin while composing original…

Larry over at ArchPundit remarks that the Trib’s new design is bloggerific: Really, the new design is quickly taking what used to be (before the recent versions) one of the worst web sites to explore to one of the easiest and friendly for bloggers. [ArchPundit] I agree – the new design is nice. Incremental changes,…

It’s been a long while since I’ve done my last Friday Rumsfeld Blogging entry, but this may be the all-time greatest photo of Rumsfeld. Ever. With great power comes great responsibility: Donald Rumsfeld flexes with Spider-Man and Captain America. (By Jason Reed — Reuters) Can’t wait to see your captions. And remember — no wagering.

Denise Howell says her firm is doing a program in a few weeks where Mark Chandler is speaking: If you’ll be in Northern California on May 16, you might be interested in a free program to be hosted by Reed Smith from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in Menlo Park. It’s called Success Strategies for Today’s…

Hmm… Update: Of course, my feed doesn’t validate either. Two of the three problems are simple fixes, the third will take a little massaging to get right. I’ve corresponded privately with a few folks whose feeds break in my aggregator (I use NewsGator) — and this is a huge problem. Surprisingly, many of the commercial…

I placed my order for a Shaun Jackson Back Office laptop backpack last night, it should be here sometime next week. I’ve grown very tired of schlepping my briefcase — and a backpack seemed a good answer. Buzz recommended the Eddie Bauer backpack, but finding one was going to require a bit of hunting. And…

Saw a very positive review of OnlyMyEmail, a web-based service that filters your email and grabs all viruses, spam and other nefarious email before you ever see it. Since I’m now using my Treo to check email when I’m away from the computer, handling all of the spam was really getting annoying. I’m using OME…

Mostly for those of you reading in an aggregator, I’m making some changes to the blog this week. In no particular order: back to one RSS feed. I used to make two feeds available, one with excerpts and one with the full feed. Thanks to FeedBurner’s stats, I know that the full feed was more…