Author Archives: Andrew Melchior
This most recent weekend I had the chance to go ice fishing with a group of friends. We went to Fish Lake in Central Utah and it was great experience, considering it was my first time out on the ice. I have been fishing on many occasions in the past, as it has been a […]
Sprint Nextel announced today that they will be cutting 8,000 jobs during this first quarter in an effort to eliminate costs of $1.2 billion (yes that is with a “b”). That’s an average salary for those 8,000 employees being cut of $150,000. That seems like a pretty high figure to me as I’m assuming many […]
Yahoo confirmed today that a full scale salary freeze has been put in place due to the less-than-stellar performance of Yahoo over the last year (err 8 years since their stock reached its high in 2001), and of course the recession that is simply killing off one company after another. This isn’t really shocking news, […]
In an economy such as today’s, many tech companies are hurting and looking for ways to cut costs to maintain profits. Microsoft, Intel, and EBay all announced sad news today. You can find a quick summary below with links to the full stories. Microsoft Microsoft announced today that they will be cutting 5,000 jobs over […]
Yesterday I spent a few hours with a good friend of mine, Dave, that is an electrician in the Salt Lake City Utah area. He has been in this industry all of his career, but within the last few years he has started his own company and is doing contractor electrical work, along with all […]
When building a new website, or rebuilding an old website, you’ll want to try and establish your brand so that you can be identified as unique in your market. Doing this is not always easy, and depending on your market it can be very difficult. Whenever I’m involved in a build or brand project I […]
If you have ever owned your own website or blog, been in charge of development for a company, or programmed in dev for a company, I’m sure you have spent and currently spend a lot of time dealing with the questions of, what’s the best platform to build X website, blog, or feature on? I […]
If you saw my last post about me suspecting Twitter was broken, than you’ll understand this post title. I think I got a personal confirmation that Twitter is broken for sure, or at least I’d like to think that it was a personal confirmation. I was trying to post a reply tweet and after clicking […]
I have been using Twitter pretty heavily for the past 90 days and have started to catch the vision of how me Tweeting can help me and DSM in the big picture. My partner Mat Siltala (@matt_siltala) has been on Twitter for about 2 years now and really has been encouraging me to use it […]