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President Hinckley passing away tonight was a bit of an emotional roller coaster, on top of that, Archbishop Christodoulos died tonight as well. 
This tweet from Jeffrey McManus cut through the emotional stress and really made me laugh!
Heads of the mormon and greek orthodox churches both died today. somewhere the pope is looking at his watch […]

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President Hinckley has been an influence in my life for as long as I can remember.  Equivalent to the Pope, President Hinckley was the spiritual leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and for the last (I don’t even know how long) several years has provided constant guidance to members of […]

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Apparently there is a Star Trek XI Teaser Trailer running before Cloverfield - and obviously this guy recorded it with his cell phone, but it’s still pretty cool!  Leonard Nimoy is the only voice in it saying “Space the final frontier” and it has audio from the Apollo moon landing running in it.  This is […]

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Wow!  Jonathan Schwartz announced this morning that Sun is going to acquire MySQL for $1 Billion!  My first thought: “Ok, cool, what does this mean for MySQL, a database system that I heavily use?  Schwartz says:
…in addition to acquiring MySQL, Sun will be unveiling new global support offerings into the MySQL marketplace. We’ll be investing in […]

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I’m sure that all my readers are anxiously awaiting my take on the MacWorld JobsNote since it is extremely difficult to find a blog that covered it.  I know it was yesterday, but digesting everything The Steve said and really boiling it down to its essence takes time. 
If you were one of the 3 people […]

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Utah Business Magazine has released their “Forty Under 40” selections for this year.  Most of them I’ve heard of, some of them I haven’t even heard of their companies, a few of them are friends of mine:
Steve Spencer
President, Twelve Horses North America, LLC | Age: 37 | First Job: Bagger at Albertsons | Last Book […]

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From an interview posted on a popular blog (Devin and Matt are the reps from the blog):
Matt: By the way, just a warning, the guy coming in after us is Gay.
Devin: Yeah, we were making fun of Gays and he mentioned he’s from San Francisco and we were like, “Um, are you Gay?” And he […]

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