Archive for the 'Utah' Category

Food Storage Christmas

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

This Christmas our family gift is a years’ supply of food storage –and I’m thrilled to have it.
I decided I’ll also be giving the gift of food storage to my family and friends. No I’m not buying it (although I think a box or a bucket of wheat makes a tremendous gift idea), but I [...]

Places to Go, People to Meet

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I’m pleased with how much opportunity for personal development and professional networking there is in Utah. Yes, I do want to see it grow even more, but it’s nice have more good options than I could possibly attend.
Tonight for example, the Utah Tech Events and Utah Business Events calendars show four events in which I [...]

BYU Web Startup Group

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I just added the BYU Web Startup Group to my comprehensive list of Utah Tech Groups.
From their website:
The Web Startup group was founded to bring together people interested in creating new sites and services online. Group members include web developers (programmers and designers), marketing and business-minded individuals, creative idea people, and others with technology related [...]

Chuck Baldwin 2008

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I dislike both major-party presidential candidates so profoundly that I would feel extremely uncomfortable giving my vote to either of them. Sure, I like Obama even less than McCain, but luckily I live in a “landslide” state where I don’t have to make the difficult decision of whether I’ll vote for the proverbial “lessor of [...]

Utah Mobile Developers First Meeting is Tonight

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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 [...]

Utah Mobile Developers Group

Monday, October 6th, 2008

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, [...]

The Trouble with Pizza Girls

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The trouble with pizza girls (and everyone else these days) is that they blog.
I love the internet and its bountious opportunities for citizen journalism.  Ten years ago you would never have heard this story.

UTOSC 2008 and Utah Business Search Trends

Monday, August 25th, 2008

My brother Gabe wrote an interesting post highlighting how Google Trends searches show that Utah is a hotbed of Open Source. It reminded me that I haven’t plugged the Utah Open Source Conference that’s happening this week. This conference is something you don’t want to miss.  I think you can still get tickets.
If your business [...]

Binding Utah Delegates to McCain

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I blogged that this was happening, and now it’s happened.  I liked David’s Garber’s summary of the Utah GOP’s delegate bait and switch so much that I got permission to post it its entirety:
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It’s official! This morning, by a vote of 70 supporters to 12 opponents, Utah’s state Republican Party’s Central Committee voted to adopt [...]

Utah GOP Insider Politics

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I thought these emails were insightful as to the way the insider politics work in the Utah GOP:
—–Original Message—–
From: Ivan DuBois [mailto:idubois@utgop.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:15 PM
To: Utah Republican Party
Subject: State Central Committee Issue
Importance: High
Dear State Central Committee Member:
Today we received a written request from State Central Committee member Mark Shurtleff to give our [...]