As you all know, I've been doing some work to try and find a way to shut down spam here in Utah. After some feedback on the original proposal and some requests from Sen. Niederhauser, I've come up with the first update of the proposed law. (Sorry about the lack of copy/paste, but the […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics on October 22nd, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Seems that the spam news in Utah is all over the place these days. I got the following in my inbox this morning:
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Utah on October 9th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last night I had the chance to meet with Sen. Niederhauser after the meeting of the Government Competition and Privatization Subcommittee. (You can read more on the subcommittee meeting here.) While talking to him, I brought up the anti-spam law I had proposed back in July. I was pleased to find out that both […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics on September 27th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Many moons ago (a few over 200 to be more exact), I had a teacher who was big-time into HAM radio. I was pretty interested in it from the few times I saw him using one and started studying what it would take to become a HAM operator too. I even soldered together my own […]
Filed under: Geek, Church on September 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
There comes a time in the course of a computer geek's computing that he (or she) realizes that upgrading has been put off for WAY too long. That time came the other night as the desktop started choking on HD episodes of Lost, sputtering to a halt as it struggled to find enough CPU power […]
Filed under: Geek on August 30th, 2007 | 10 Comments »
In a move seemingly designed to compete with Bob Murray's recent insensitivity, Richard M. Stallman, a founding figure of the free software movement, decided to end a short article about the recent earthquake in Peru with a bizarre nonsequitur paragraph attacking religious belief. With no warning whatsoever, he launches into the following:
I read that […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Rants on August 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You know you've always wanted to read the collected works of Dickens. Maybe you really want to catch up on your Cervantes. Perhaps you've always meant to read The Art of War but never got around to it. With DailyLit, you can do it easily.
DailyLit is a service that lets you pick out public domain […]
Filed under: Geek, Entertainment on August 15th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I sent the following e-mail to Sen. Wayne Niederhauser and Rep. Sylvia Andersen today:
Dear Sen. Niederhauser and Rep. Andersen;
My name is Jesse Harris and I'm one of your constituents. As an IT professional, I've seen first-hand the kind of damage bulk unsolicited e-mail can cause to unprepared organizations. The investment made in trying to filter […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Utah on August 9th, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Several months ago, Wired ran a great article on how companies are embracing radical transparency as a new approach to public relations. The list wasn't just a bunch of hip new Web 2.0 companies either. Microsoft operates Channel 9 as a way to give folks a glimpse into how their software business really […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics on July 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I've added a few new features over the last few weeks that I hope will prove helpful in finding nifty stuff on our site and participating more fully. For about two weeks now, I've had the Subscribe to Comments plugin installed and running. This plugin will send you an e-mail when someone responds to […]
Filed under: Geek, Website, Blogging on July 7th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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