tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71363523727957381692012-02-16T01:11:48.635-08:00wizkidnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-50660307872995595582010-03-31T09:21:00.000-07:002010-03-31T19:58:03.968-07:00

I recently got the opportunity to interview Travis Hughey, inventor of the Barrel-ponics system of food production. It is an Aquaponics system geared towards low capital requirements and minimal environmental impact. Travis gives us his thoughts on engineering, missionary work, and much more...JMZ: Hello Travis, welcome to my blog! Let's begin with the basics, how did you first get interested

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Hello everyone. I haven't updated my blog in a while so I thought I would give my readers and friends a short update on my current activities. As many of you are aware the housing market has literally flipped over. So I thought it was a good time to make an investment in the central Phoenix area. I like the area because it is 1) diverse, 2) young productive people live there, 3) undervalued,

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-75551259426681860572008-09-07T23:06:00.000-07:002008-09-07T23:10:03.756-07:00

I can remember with crystal clarity at least a dozen people tell me with a straight face, "Real Estate Never Goes Down" as little as 2 years ago. Not only does it indeed go down, but we are now in the biggest financial mess this country has been in since the Great Depression.

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-55855388074163969162008-09-01T20:32:00.000-07:002008-09-02T02:13:35.420-07:00

"We live in an epoch changing time. The end of the millennium, the end of the century, the end of the ideological era. It is all global border-lines, challenging us to just so global answers, large-scale reflections. However, within the smaller cycle of our Russian social life the obvious *volte-face* is taking place. It is going to be quite comparable with perestroika and “democratization” in

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-28265880041666031772008-06-07T12:30:00.000-07:002008-06-07T12:34:24.908-07:00

An interesting documentary on free software use in Third World economies.

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-13073027645256802222008-05-16T11:31:00.000-07:002008-05-16T12:00:57.890-07:00

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Alan Dayley of Phoenix Linux Users Group. Alan had some very interesting things to say from both a Arizona perspective, and from the perspective of someone who helps manage a Linux Users Group.JMZ: Alan, welcome to my blog! First off, I'd like to thank you for doing this and for all the effort you've put into fostering a Linux community in the

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-41883948002408101072008-04-04T13:22:00.000-07:002008-04-24T09:42:17.297-07:00

I recently had the opportunity to talk to Josh Weiss, who works with Partners in Solidarity. Partners in Solidarity was founded by Matthew Rutman with the vision of bringing computers and technical education to the rural schools and NGO's of the Guatemalan state of Quetzaltenango. The project facilitates the donation of computers, supplied by Next Step Recycling in Eugene, Oregon, to allow for

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-25581192208086903212008-03-27T12:09:00.000-07:002008-03-27T12:33:31.011-07:00

Healthcare is an issue on everyone's mind these days. Our politicians are talking about it, Americans are complaining about it, Non-Americans are ridiculing it, large overweight media personalities are creating funny documentaries about it. It suffices to say that Healthcare is a topic on everyone's mind.The issue is in how Healthcare should be managed. The ones who are on the spot, the

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-29223182770962160162008-03-23T00:15:00.000-07:002008-05-29T19:35:53.962-07:00

An area that has always absolutely fascinated me is Local Currencies. Local Currencies are alternative currencies not necessarily backed by an official national government. Other terms for Local Currencies are LETS, Community Currency, Alternative Currencies, Barter Currencies, and many more. Their use is far more popular in Europe, Canada, and Australia- although there have been a number of

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-27050586951106378002008-03-15T18:07:00.000-07:002008-03-15T20:38:01.904-07:00

A lot of my readers are in Arizona, I thought I would do a small and brief feature of yet another chapter in the bankrupting of America's technology workers. From CIO magazine:The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, late Thursday, would increase the cap in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. In addition, there would be no

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-50313740084955382872008-03-10T12:18:00.000-07:002008-03-10T12:50:04.202-07:00

So it seems we've got a blip at Topicle.com on today's tech PR circuit. Topicle.com is a kind of meta-search engine that allows people to assemble links to their sites and create specialized 'vertical' search engines for particular topics. For instance someone (most likely a paid employee of Topicle.com) created a search engine for Real Estate that includes a bunch of links to reportedly

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-19569487027760970542008-03-09T10:04:00.000-07:002008-03-09T15:03:42.754-07:00

SEO or Search Engine Optimization and its partners in crime; SEM ( Search Engine Marketing ), etc. Are those disciplines dedicated to the art of manipulating and coercing search engines to do the bidding of paying clients. SEO was more or less an outpost of traditional marketing disciplines and is typically populated and run by 'non-technical' types. SEO never really appealed much to the

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-86885409553188979272008-03-06T13:55:00.000-08:002008-03-08T13:59:24.208-08:00

a very provocative and poignant video about a very serious issue affecting us all: Net Neutrality. If the telcos get their way, you won't be reading great blogs like JoshuaZeidner.com anymore. They would put you on a strict diet of Gigaom.com for the rest of your life. And that would be a serious tragedy. I caught this video virus from Isen.com.sorry folks, looks like that video link broke

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-53564661279650002992008-03-05T11:06:00.000-08:002008-03-08T15:22:04.332-08:00

Opening up my newsreader today and being exposed to cacophony of news bits about Microsoft's Singularity platform, and seeing all the likely PR mouthpieces like Om Malik blogging about it, I decided to take a closer look at their license agreement.At this point in time I accept the authority of the Open Source Initiative for approval of various open source licenses. Let it be known that two

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-61679047512591415922008-03-04T09:07:00.000-08:002008-03-09T09:57:01.846-07:00

Malik is on the right holding a 'mobile device' the person on the left appears to have his startup swerve on.Recently Om Malik decided to make his mark (or mark his territory) on the Open Source world by launching his new blog Ostatic, with typical Silly Con Valley fanfare.What do I expect from this blog? the same payola pay-per-post droning I expect from all the other pure crap Om Malik

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-70651002143425472542008-03-03T09:17:00.000-08:002008-03-10T11:57:05.196-07:00

The word is out on the street: Web 2.0 is the next big thing! or is it Web 3.0? Needless to say, Web something point 'oh' is up to bat and sure to hit a home run.In the past few years weve seen the proliferation of what is called in the common parlance 'Web 2.0' sites, that is a somewhat ambiguous catch phrase for web sites that rely on user participation for content. The business model works

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-79446801345489958892008-02-17T21:47:00.000-08:002008-02-21T11:30:35.209-08:00

I was lucky enough to be able to have an in-depth discussion with Ted Gould regarding the future of Inkscape and SVG. We spoke a bit about Inkscape's history, its future, and the role SVG will play in the web in coming years.JMZ: Ted, you've been involved with SVG for some time. How did you first get involved with the SVG standard? TG: I first started to work with SVG by contributing to Sodipodi,

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-49140938800329454902008-02-16T16:03:00.000-08:002008-02-16T16:52:14.238-08:00

note: this applet appears to violate the security domain in both FF and IE...

wizkidnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136352372795738169.post-77346971059337322752008-02-14T10:53:00.000-08:002008-02-18T11:50:01.318-08:00

Many may ask... what goes on @ PLUG (Phoenix Linux Users Group)?PLUG is a semi-formal group of Linux Enthusiasts based in the Phoenix area that has been in existence in various forms for over 10 years. There is no legal US entity associated with PLUG at this time. Some claim that there is a Steering Committee associated with PLUG, however the names of the members of this group have never been

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