Michael Gracie 

Colorado HB 10-1193 motioned for the voluntary collection of sales tax by online retailers. Most probably didn’t pay much attention to it because it was “voluntary”, meaning law makers had visions of sugar plum fairies and passive-aggressive search engine optimizers dancing in their heads when they offered up the punch line. Of course legislators and [...]

If you woke up from your New Year’s hangover, immediately reached into your vest, found your fishing license expired, and thought “damn, I spent that thirty bucks, and then some, at the bar the last night”, there’s no need to worry. You can fish on that 2008 license until March 31st. That’s three free months [...]

Take your time – you’ve got about 36 hours Cheap cement is pouring into the US, and it’s creating headaches for Cemex, the largest US producer. Don’t feel sorry for them though – they’ve been pushing through price increases in the midst of plummeting construction. I wonder how this will effect the ‘replacement cost’ line [...]

Just in time for autumn It’s a great time to be fishing, and it’s only going to get better. We’re heading into a transition period, when the temperature cools, the leaves start falling off the trees, and (happily) when fish either head into spawning mode and/or start bulking up for winter. In my humble opinion, [...]

I’ll fish three of these Gold Medal waters in the next four weeks.

70 people get together to build a web-based company in a single weekend. That’s 70 people that either barely know each other or have barely worked together – well maybe 60 or so plus a few that actually do work together. Nevertheless, just getting this many people to burn their entire weekend working for 1/70th [...]

Fortunately, I think happy hour should be longer, even if it does have to start a little later. According to yesterday’s report from E&Y and DJ’s VentureOne, venture capital investing hit its best quarter since the first of 2001. That’s great for startups. Unfortunately, the party doesn’t seem to be happening in my neighborhood. You [...]

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is touring the state talking about fraud, privacy and identity theft. His last stop, in Pueblo, was met with something less than enthusiasm – in fact, he was met with nobody at all. The AG was targeting the elderly – the ones you would think would be the most vulnerable. [...]

You would naturally assume that if some educational institution was now “missing” a laptop with the names and social security numbers of 95,000 students and faculty on it, that I would be picking on them like no tomorrow. In this case, however, it happened in my backyard, so I am just hoping nobody I know [...]

I was getting worried for a while, but now I can now safely continue picking on all the universities losing their data. I feared I might eventually have to target someone around my neighborhood, but as it turns out, Colorado universities are taking the issues pretty seriously. Whew!