Ignite Portland 5! (…oh, i think i’m gonna be sick)

The line-up for Ignite Portland #5 is in, and yours truly is on the freight train headed straight for Public Humiliation, USA. I think this must be some kind of payback or revenge for laughing so hard when Cami Kaos went on about “her bluff being called.” There I was, sitting with A.J. and Jon laughing it up. “Ha!” I said, “She sent an idea as a joke and totally got called on...

SAO Introduces Group Insurance Plans

Those of us without health insurance, or whom are self-employed and need to pay gobs of money for it, know that every little bit helps. The Software Association of Oregon has decided to be that help. It looks like they have instituted a group health benefits package that is available to any member of the SAO. This includes Gorge Technology Alliance (GTA) members, since the SAO sponsors the GTA. Details went out...

Oregon Blogs Test Site Up & Running!

Bill Jackson has done it again. Mere days after he spurs us for a re-invigorated Oregon Blogs effort, he has the test site up and running. He posted the details on the Oregon Blogs Weblog: Please go ahead and create yourself an account, add plenty of (appropriate) feeds, file issues for anything that is broken or otherwise obviously wrong, and chat us up on the mailing list with ideas for improvement! Please...

Why Cuil Should Buy Iterasi… No, Seriously.

Ahh, the power of blogging. It’s one of the things that makes the internet great. Anyone can sit in the comfort of their own 40-hour/week job and detail how they are the only person who truly understands the large-scale economic trends that drive our global financial markets. Anyone can become an analyst of complex political interactions… or even corporate strategies. I think this tendency is very...

Holy Shmoly! » WordPress MU 2.7 beta!

Woohoo! WordPressµ beta is released by Donncha O Caoimh mere minutes ago! This is a moment much anticipated in the Blog Server world, because WordPress 2.7 is a rockin great release, and we’re all anxious to get it up and running. It looks like we can too, it’s pretty stable: This is quite a stable release and has been tested by many but it’s not the final 2.7 release so there are probably bugs...