Wow, landing contract work can be time consuming. Sometimes it takes more work to find the contracts than to fill the commitments. In the last couple weeks I was able to land a few good deals and get few solid leads, but I had to let a big one fall through so I [...]

Looking for work has actually been kinda fun. I get the feeling it has something to do with looking at the right time, being in the right place and having the right skill sets. I’ve known that Utah was a hot-spot for tech and I assumed it was a great place for Open Source hackers. [...]

To all my OpenSuse friends: In the past, I’ve made fun of your distro while you where not around. I’ve poked fun at your package management. I’ve installed over OpenSuse with other distros. I’ve blown away partitions reserved for OpenSuse. I’ve ignored your releases. But today, that all changes. Today, I give it a fair shake. I’ll let you know what [...]

A year ago, I gave wordpress a spin and started sharing with the world some of the many things that interest me. This tends to be stuff about Open Source/Free software. The cool thing about Open Source software is that it seems to have universal appeal. This map shows typical geographic locations [...]

I’m happy to learn that Asterisk 1.4 is out.

While working on some Xen stuff, I’ve found that a drawing is about the easiest way to document some things. I’m going to be doing some drawings of custom Xen networks, but until then, here are a few drawings of default Xen networks to serve as a point of reference. This first one just shows how a [...]

Christer Edwards pointed me to the best bug report I’ve ever seen: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix Microsoft has a majority market share | Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small [...]

This should lead to some interesting search results. If so, I’ll share what I’ve learned 5 or 6 weeks from now. basketball coach championship conference dawson defense final four finals friars game head coach houston jeff van gundy mcquaid jesuit high school nazareth college nba nba broadcasts new york knicks playoff points providence rochester rochester new york rockets rutgers seasons turner sports It’s kinda like setting a trap. Analytics - that’s some fun stuff :)

Scary and exciting. That’s how I would describe my new occupational path. I’m going to be accepting contracting work while I look for a more stable arrangement (read: get-a-job). I want to be able to look around and get to know some of the many businesses in the valley that have need [...]

I shortened the page load times on the Utah Open Source Planet by bringing the number of posts down from 60 to 40.

OK, so that’s a little dramatic, but still, my blog’s google placement for certain keywords has suffered sorely and it troubles me. It all started with comment spam. I installed a spam eating plug-in to keep the flood from pouring over my blog, and it worked well - too well. At first, I was [...]