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MidMarketMaven posted Matt Marsh’s notes from Stephen Covey’s recent speech at the University of Utah:
“Finally, [Covey] asked how many people in the room had created a culture in their lives that at least permitted, if not encouraged, those around you to kick back against what you say, to which very few responded yes.”
I can’t believe [...]

It looks like Google SketchUp is now live. But besides enabling users to put mock ups on Google Earth, I’m having a hard time seeing how this acquisition fits into its Google’s overall search strategy. Still, it looks pretty cool and will probably be great for branding. Plus, I believe that if it’s cool enough, [...]

Google’s Summer of Code is a great opportunity for IT and CS students to learn new skills, improve their resume, and make a little money during the summer. Plus, it offers students an opportunity to work with some really big-name open source software organizations.
Google is not taking applications yet, but it should be really soon, [...]

Most people don’t know this, but WordPress automatically builds RSS feeds for specific categories. So if you wanted to syndicate only “tech” stories from the Jordy Blog, you could use this feed:
http://jordy.gundy.org/wp-rss2.php?cat=3
To view which id you could use for a category-specific feed, just click on a category and see what is listed in the [...]

My boss, Paul Allen (the lesser) asked me to blog about how I redirected his entire blog site to new domain without losing traffic. So at the risk of boring some of my more technical readers, but also in the name of retaining my job, here goes. :)
Before the Move
First, the part I didn’t do. [...]

Netflix is suing Blockbuster, almost immediately after receiving a long-awaited business model patent. I personally hope the courts reward Netflix; Blockbuster’s imitation is just too flagrant… Plus I just hate Blockbuster. :)

TinyURL.com is a neat little site where you can submit a really long URL to make tiny. When someone clicks the TinyURL link (or pastes it in their address bar), they are briefly taken to the TinyURL.com page, then instantly redirected to the appropriate site. It’s a real simple concept, but it’s also really handy, [...]

XHTMLized.com is a great service where you send in a design for a webpage and they return a webpage in valid CSS or XHTML. They are very fast (less than a week) and pretty cheap (only $150). They can even return your design as a WordPress theme or whatever you like. Not a bad deal [...]

This email exchange between the City Manager of Tuttle and the lead developer of CentOS Linux is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time.
Here’s the hard-hitting local news coverage.

My good friend Doug Collins will be playing guitar with country music star Julie Roberts on the Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall tonight. You can watch his performance at 6PM Mountain Time on GAC.
Doug and I were together in our first little rock band (dubbed Social Faux Pas) in junior high. He and Jared [...]