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Ron Paul was dead right about the economy. If you haven’t watched his videos on YouTube, you should. He was calling the bursting of the housing bubble well before it happened. And the credit crunch? Yep, he’s warned of that too.
Ron Paul would have smoked Obama in the [...]

The new Ubuntu is out. Download it here if you haven’t already.
For my non-technical readers:
Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux, an operating system that can replace Windows. Linux is open sourced, meaning you can look at the code and see how it works. It’s also free to download and includes a ton of world-class open-source [...]

Don’t forget about the inaugural meeting of Utah Mobile Developers Group tonight.  They’ll be discussing both iPhone and Android development and handing out some O’Reilly iPhone books.
I have a feeling that this group is going to be awesome. At least it will be for me; it’s right up the alley of what my new business [...]

I finally got off my butt and bought a year’s supply of food storage a couple of weeks ago.  I just can’t tell you how good it feels. It was mostly just wheat, beans, and rice; but we got a few other things to make it a little more tolerable. Let me just say, it [...]

On the bailouts, I just came up with this one liner (in the tradition of Yakov Smirnoff):
“In Soviet America, bank robs you.”
It would be more funny if it weren’t so true –or if it were said by a Ukrainian.

I thought it interesting that the Google 2001 index had only 671 search results for “Barack Obama“.
“Sarah Palin” had 0 results.
These old indexes are interesting, especially if you’re searching for old data. I hope we see more of them.

Over the weekend I installed Rockbox on my iPod, and let me just say that I love my iPod again.
I love that I can rate podcasts. I love that I can delete a song right from my iPod. I love that I can play Ogg Vorbis files. I love that I can make dynamic playlists [...]

I’m way excited about the Utah Mobile Developers user group that is forming. Their first activity is on the schedule for Wednesday, October 29 and will discuss both iPhone and Android development. Here’s the agenda and RVSP:
6:00pm Doors open, pizza, networking
6:30 Opening, recognize sponsors, review agenda, [...]

Well, the $700 billion (pre-pork) bailout bill passed 263 to 171, and our “conservative” president GWB has already signed it into law. Here’s the House vote and the Senate vote so you know who to hate.
Here in Utah, Senators Bennett and Hatch broke their oaths to defend the constitution, with Bennett being one of the [...]

Today the US House of Representative is very likely to pass one of the most stupid pieces of legislation I have ever seen. They’re getting MAJOR pressure by the president, majority and minority leaders in congress, both major party presidential nominees, the Federal Reserve, and everyone else you can think of to pass an “emergency” [...]