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Just arrived at my hotel in Seattle for Gnomedex. On my flight out here, I realized this may be the first conference in at least a half dozen years where I’m here as an attendee, not as a speaker, a vendor or a sponsor. Ordinarily on the afternoon of arrival, I’m realizing how woefully under-prepared…

We’ve known about this latest bit of news since March, but with a number of miscarriages over the last several years, we weren’t going to start announcing Robin’s latest pregnancy until we felt confident that things were progressing well. I’m happy to report that the Klau family is set to get larger by one sometime…

Yesterday we took a day trip up to the Wollersheim Winery in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, just under a 3 hour drive from Naperville. Robin read about the area — which sits on the Wisconsin River and is just east of the Mississippi River — in the Tribune last month, and we decided it would…

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…