It's no secret I've been in some high-profile fights with Mark Towner over his spamming ways. Remember the gun-for-hire e-mail he sent from Utahns for Public School? How about the threats to sue me? Maybe his blatant violations of FeedBlitz's ToS and their lack of interest in enforcing it? After all of that, […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on February 16th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Thanks to nearly a century of interference and bungling, the federal government has managed to make quite a mess of the telecommunications market. Not only was there rampant abuse of the patent system by men like Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1800s, the feds also made the Bell phone system a de jure monopoly […]
Filed under: Politics on February 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I would really like a legislature to go by without some sort of embarrassing technology bill being put forth. Despite my best hopes, it appears that this year isn’t it. Rep. Brad Daw has put forth a bill (largely written by the Chairman of SCO, a company that has it’s own disgraceful and embarrassing history) […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Utah on January 30th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It seems that there's been a bit of a stir lately as newspapers have flocked to stories highlighting Utah's somewhat… lenient rules on legislative gift-giving and campaign contributions. For those that don't know, here's the skinny: campaign money can be spent on anything you want and you only have to report, not refuse, gifts over […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on January 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Now that we're past Christmas and on to 2008, I think it's time to really start thinking about who should be elected as our next chief executive. I usually don't put much into it. After all, the office of President has become grossly over-emphasized for decades. We both expect the President to do the job […]
Filed under: Politics on January 1st, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As the statewide referendum showed us last month, Utahns feel very passionately about education despite the varied ways in which we all want to improve it. One solution is as old as the education system itself: spend more money. Certainly there has to be an appropriate level of financing for our education system to succeed, […]
Filed under: Politics on December 18th, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I'm sure many of you have read the children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In it, a young boy does what the title suggests, yet this action leads to getting the mouse a glass of milk to go along with it. This eventually snowballs into a complex chain of actions that wears […]
Filed under: Politics on December 11th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The final votes are in in the Bloghive Advisory Board election and I won one of the seats! Thanks to everyone for your support. I highly recommend checking out the final results to see how the votes ended up being tabulated.
On a side note, I have to say that I'm really impressed with this […]
Filed under: Politics, Website, Utah, Tender Lumplings on December 4th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Competition is the basic building block of a healthy system of free enterprise. With it, we get better consumer choice, a wide variety of products and services and the chance for each of us to start our own enterprises. Without it, we get corrupt and moribund monopolies that do not respond to customer needs, inflate […]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on November 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Apparently unsubscribe requests mean nothing. I got yet another spam from Marky Mark today, this time through FeedBlitz. Now if you recall, he used FeedBlitz back in June to send another round of spam. Rather than have his account terminated for violating the ToS, he decided to commit seppuku. I guess that was so […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on November 29th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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