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Most of you probably already know, but today was Bill’s last day at Microsoft. On the scene: Microsoft’s farewell to Gates Regards,jim®

Paris, France: The Board of ICANN today approved a recommendation that could see a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet’s addressing system. “The Board today accepted a recommendation from its global stakeholders that it is possible to implement many new names to the Internet, paving the way … Continue reading →

PUBLISHED ON Wednesday, June 25, 2008 AT 12:06AMYakima Herald-Republic The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a 2009 spending bill that includes $500,000 to complete the Yakima River Basin water storage study, Rep. Doc Hastings announced. The Pasco Republican said the money will be enough to finish the five-year … Continue reading →

If you were wondering, why I haven’t posted in a week or so, it’s because I have been attending the Association of Washington Cities – Annual Conference in Yakima, WA. It was without a doubt the best AWC Conference I have attended since started I was elected in 2004 – The City … Continue reading →

Don’t listen to all the naysayers – like Barack Obama – who try to convince you that drilling for oil here or sinking a well there will only impact the price of gas at the pump by “a few pennies a gallon,” and won’t have any impact for many years … Continue reading →

While liberal media types pooh pooh the notion that increased oil exploration and eventual production will ease the oil crisis, and, bewilderingly, hold out hope at the same time – for thirty years and counting – that solar and wind energy will really amount to something/anything some day – this … Continue reading →

Dear Friends: After 12 years of faithful service, my good friend and colleague Councilman Al Hubert from Toppenish has decided to step down from the Yakima County EMS Trauma Care Council, and he nominated me to serve as his replacement.  On  May 21, 2008 the Yakima Valley Conference of Governments General … Continue reading →

Had a great opportunity to attend the 25th Anniverary of DNS Roundtable discussion, one of the major issues was PITMA’s.  If you don’t know what a PITMA is you need to, here is a blog article on the subject. http://myaxcess.com/blogs/jimr/archive/2008/06/11/if-it-looks-like-a-duck-and-quacks-like-a-duck-then-it-must-be-a-duck-unless-it-s-a-pitma.aspx

I had the opportunity (and pleasure) to attend a Roundtable Discussion this morning with some of the most well known Domain Name System (DNS) Experts in the world, including Dr. Paul Mockapetris  (inventor of DNS), Cricket Liu (author of many DNS books, including DNS and BIND.), Paul Vixie and Paul … Continue reading →

[media: link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K7wpatALDQ”] I had the opportunity to watch the world premier of The King of Kong today (yes I know it’s been out for quite some time.)  To say I was little disappointed in Billy Mitchell is an understatement. For those of you saying who is Billy Mitchell?  He is/was … Continue reading →