Blogger is frustrating

I want searching capabilities and I want categories. Arrgh. I mean come on, the biggest search engine in the world can't include the ability to search in a blog? Almost every other blogging software I've looked at has this capability. I'm seriously considering moving to another application that has these features.

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My visit to Washington DC

I had the opportunity to visit Washington DC last week. Unfortunately for me I was only able to visit the memorials late at night. It was a day trip, arrived in the morning, stayed one night, left the following afternoon.

Here is a great picture of the White House. There is construction going on for the inauguration in a few weeks. So there was this huge structure in front of the white house.

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Salt Lake City good for High Tech

A story on deseretnews.com explains why Utah is good for technology. Here is my take.

Yes, we have a very technology thinking work force. It starts very early, in elementary school. Our children are exposed to a lot of technology. Spend a few hours in the afternoon at the local library and every computer has a student aged user sitting in front of it. Almost everyone that I know has at least one computer in their home (and if you're like me, several.) So our kids are exposed at the earliest age.

Then there’s the work force. You can't get a job today without being exposed at some point to a computer. Every police vehicle has a computer. Local Utility company vehicles now have laptops in them. We no longer have cash registers; we have computers with cash drawers hooked to them. You can apply for or renew licenses online. Pay your bills, order products, read news. It goes on and on.

But high tech isn't just about computers. It’s about the technology used in business. There are some very high tech companies in Utah that have nothing to do with computers. One example is Hexcel Corporation which has a plant in West Kearns. The plant is one of many throughout the US that manufactures a graphite composite used in a lot of products we buy. They primarily supply product to the Airline industry (next time your on a Boeing airplane, remember that the skin holding the thing together is made with a graphite material manufactured in Utah), golf club shafts, kevlar helmets and bullet proof vests, hi-end bicycle frames, ski poles, skis and many other product.

Utah is also home to Helicopter manufactures, medical supply manufactures, rocket engine manufactures, irrigation manufacturing and mineral mining. All of these companies rely on employees who know and understand technology. These people are smart, educated, and go outside the box with innovative ideas. The Utah work force seems to embrace this technology. They crave it. They expect it. It makes the work day fun and challenging. It also helps our economy.

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Gmail import tool

I found this interesting little tool that will let you import from other mail file types, specifically mbox format, into your Gmail account. Gmail import tool. If you don't have mail in this format you are out of luck... I assume that means if you use Outlook, you're out of luck. Sorry. Maybe support for it will be in future releases.

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I hope he doesn’t mind

Usually when I find a great link on the net and I post about it I give complete credit and a return link so the other site will get any traffic I can drive. But in the case of the Memorial post from Joel on Software, I decided that it was more important to me than just making a link. People change their weblog addresses, or their archives are removed or what ever. I didn't want to lose this. It's selfish I know, but extremely important.

I am pretty sure that Joel will not be changing his weblog any time soon, but I still wanted to play it safe. I'm not sure if he's the creator of the htm or he got it from somewhere else, but I appreciate the efforts and wanted to give full credit where I got the information.

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