This is my iPhone about a week after buying it. Talk about bummed. It dropped from about 2 feet onto my driveway (slipped out of the van when I opened the door). It was dark out, so I didn’t realize that it was broken until I got inside. When I shared this story with the guy [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Well, if you don’t blog about forming a new company and getting ready to launch a new product, what do you blog about? I guess when you’re busy, that’s what it takes to get you posting again. I don’t have much to say right now, but we’ve worked our guts out, spent much of our [...]