Utah Open Source Conference: Aug 28-30 at SLCC Redwood

Utah Open Source Conference
Thursday August 28, 2008 - Saturday August 30, 2008
Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus
4600 S Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130
Website: http://2008.utosc.com
The Utah Open Source Conference 2008 will be held at the Salt Lake Community College, Redwood Road campus from August 28 - 30, 2008.
The Salt Lake Community College Computer Science department [...]

Geek Dinner Thursday 7-31 at Paradise Bakery

Looking for the Utah geeks, bloggers and coders? You’ll find them at the Utah Geek/Blogger Dinner. This month, we’re meeting at Paradise Bakery. If you have been feeling lonely for computer conversation in the Salt Lake Valley, you’ll find it all here!
THEY HAVE WI-FI, so you can bring your laptop if you want!
RSVP at Upcoming.org: [...]

Utah Jobs Growing

Matthew Reinbold was kind enough to use a few of my comments in a recent piece on Utah Job Growth at UtahPulse.com.
Here’s some of the takeaways:
“Unemployment is still below the generally-accepted measure for ‘full-employment’ of 4-5%,” Robert Merrill, Technical Account Manager for SOS Engineering and Technology, said. “This means that people who would otherwise choose [...]

Utah Tries Four Day Work-Week

On August 4th, Utah will begin its move to a four-day work week, a move that should save up to about 20% of the state’s expenses by 2015.
The change will apply to about 17,000 employees, roughly 80% of the state workforce, [Utah State Governor] Huntsman says. Public universities, the state court system, prisons and other [...]

Job Trends: Moonlight, Part-Time Desired by Candidates

It’s likely a result of the current economy, but we have noticed a very high percentage of people coming to us and looking for part-time or extra work on graveyards/evenings/weekends.
These are generally very talented individuals who like their current job/employer, but are looking for additional work to take on.
Likewise, these same people are usually willing [...]

Wanted: Real, CREATIVE ways to cut commute costs. NOW.

I saw an email from Yahoo’s Hot Jobs career center just now and clicked hoping for some great advice on cutting my commute costs.
Well, lets just say what I read was, um, more of the same:

Take the bus
Carpool
Ride your bike
Telecommute

With oil predicted to hit $150/barrell in a month, and prices at the pump currently over [...]

Four-Day Workweek Gaining US Popularity?

Photo by Yandle. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.
The Green Autoblog reports that the US workforce may be switching to a four-work-day week in response to higher gas prices and pressure to be smarter about requiring commutes. They point to this reuters article explaining how the four-day week is becoming a benefit in otherwise cash-strapped [...]

Podcamp SLC is THIS Saturday 3-15-2008

Details from Laura Moncur:
Thom Allen and Brad Baldwin are sponsoring PodCampSLC in Salt Lake City THIS Saturday March 15, 2008 a10am - 4pm at the Neumont University.
10701 S. River Front Parkway, Suite 300
South Jordan, UT 84095
http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampSLC
It’s a BarCamp for new media: blogging, podcasting, vlogging, etc. If you are a blogger, this is the event that [...]

Take A Flying Leap…

Well, it’s Leap-Day. The once-every four years event that has no real significance other than, when you’re the emporer, and you screw stuff up… you can fix it, well, any way you please.
As a sort of pseudo celebration of this, I am asking a question of you:
What ONE THING still haunts you because you didn’t [...]