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For a little more than a year, I’ve been a SpamCop subscriber, and in those 13 months, SpamCop has intercepted more than 27,000 spam messages. One of the advantages to SpamCop is that it’s server-based, so I don’t have to download the e-mail before seeing if it’s spam or not. (This is a huge advantage…

Jennifer Klyse has some poignant observations about the challenge of measuring school performance through standardized tests. No child left behind? I’m not so sure.

Just a tech note for anyone interested in such things: I just modified my RSS template in Movable Type to include macros from MTMacro. Here’s what I did: Created a Movable Type module that contains all MTMacros (currently using a Google macro and an Amazon macro that invokes the MT-Amazon plugin). I can now reference…

Some sobering commentary (Updated URL – permalinks to Dan’s site appear broken) from Dan Conley, the guy who used to run Deanblog.com. Dan does a good job of identifying trends he thinks will be decisive in 2004, and risks he sees in a Dean candidacy/presidency. I disagree with Dan, but want to take more time…

I finally got to read the article in this month’s ABA Journal about lawyers who go out on their own, and the lawyer most prominently featured is none other than one of my best friends, Erik Heels. Congrats to Erik on the coverage, but more importantly, congrats are due for his success. If you need…

If this works, I should be able to add tags to my blog posts, and it will automatically create a linked Google query: Rick Klau. Code for the macro courtesy of Code Poetry, who lists all macros on their site here.

I experienced a few problems this morning with the MT-Amazon plugin. It happened while I was monkeying around with my template, so I originally assumed it was something I’d done… but nothing I did to the templates fixed the error. Eventually I found a couple threads at the Amazon.com discussion board that seemed to confirm…

I was IM’ing with Matt Mower yesterday and he let me know that he was going to be getting me an early version of the K-Collector Client for Movable Type sometime tomorrow. I’m excited about this, as I see K-Collector as an incredibly powerful way of aggregating and classifying content across blogs. See a demo…

I’ve been doing some tweaking to this blog in the past couple days, experimenting with some “Movable Type” plugins to extend the functionality of this site. Some new items: Installed MT-Amazon, a plugin that lets me link this blog to Amazon.com using the Amazon web services API. Without the technobabble, that means that I can…

Just returned to the office from a thoroughly engagaing lunch with Jim McGee. Jim is every bit as smart and engaging as his weblog would have you think he is. As has become the norm in first-time meetings with fellow bloggers, all of the ordinary “getting to know you” stuff is gone. We already know…