This is an email I recently wrote to my family: It has come to my attention that some of my nieces and nephews are lacking when it comes to what I feel is one of the most valuable skills a person, especially a young person, can have today. This skill affects how educated you will…
Why Gas Prices Are High
I’m not sure why there is even a debate on this. Sure, I took economics classes in college, but I think I failed some of them and I still get this. I’m not surprised to hear Democrats coming up with strange explanations, but why Republicans can’t explain it or are failing to explain it is…
My First Computer Experience
Yep, that’s me. I can’t imagine that I was more than six years old at the time when my dad bought his first computer, a TRS-80 from RadioShack. Can you believe RadioShack was one of the first computer manufacturers/retailers and today they’re…well, what does RadioShack do anyway? I don’t think I’ve ever been to one…
Check Your Email
About three weeks ago I had an issue with my donloper.com email. I check a lot of email addresses through my email client and since my donloper.com email was acting up I turned it off. Then I forgot to turn it back on again until about three hours ago. 467 messages, included 68 notifications about…
The World Famous Fives
It’s 1:20am, and that means it’s prime time for a blog entry before I go home. Not wanting to think too much at this time of the morning, I’m opting for an installment of the World Famous Fives. A Top 5 with myself, that is: Top 5 movies and/or TV shows that are randomly connected…
Owen Cherrington, A Personal Tribute
I just received an email newsletter from the Rollins Center for eBusiness at BYU containing this article – http://ebusiness.byu.edu/newsletter/news.cfm?newsletterid=59&id=186. Out of all the professors I had at BYU I don’t believe I had more one on one talks with any of them more than with Owen. The last time I talked with Owen was a…