As a follow-up to my earlier post; I’m beginning to think that the government, and specifically the United States Postal Service should take over the management and support of our Internet infrastructure.

Here’s some of the reasons I think this might be a good idea. Let’s look at the functions of the United States Postal Service:

delivery of mail (connecting people)
delivery of packages
official endorsement of dated materials (think tax returns being postmarked)
official government documents (issuing of passports, etc.)
economic exchange (delivery of paychecks, tax returns, invoices)

These are the basic functions that I believe are provided by the postal service. As I stated …read more

I think I may have completely changed my mind on something that I completely disagreed with not too long ago. The idea of Internet access being considered in the same lines as a utility like water, electric and perhaps phone service or sewage made absolutely no sense to me.

I’ve always considered Internet access more of a luxury item than something like a utility. If you didn’t have Internet access you could still get by with life.
My decision may have changed though as I started to think about another government service that has been visibly getting replaced by the Internet, and …read more

Former Michigan State head coach and athletic director George Perles has recently announced that he intends to throw his hat in the ring to be Michigan’s next governor. He’ll be a part of the Democratic primary in August 2010.
Perles is the CEO of the Motor City Bowl, an MSU board of trustees member, and a fundraiser for the Special Olympics. He says that he’d focus on recruiting should he be voted into office. Essentially, he’d do for the state what he did on the field – try to get more people to come to Michigan.
Name recognition is big in politics, …read more

Did you know that Google has a specific search function that only searches Microsoft related websites for the information?
I’m guessing the functionality works similar to Rollyo, in that they’ve picked a group of sites that focus on Microsoft information and search for your request among this specific group.
What I’m not able to figure out is what sites are searched. I’m wondering how you get your site listed in that group?
Google has other specific search sites for:

UPDATE: Microsoft
U.S. Government
Linux
BSD
Apple Macintosh