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February 20, 2004
SB66 Passes the Utah Senate
SB66, the UTOPIA killer bill, passed the Utah Senate yesterday. The bill would make the tax restrictions on the project so onerous that the project will never happen. This is too bad, since I believe UTOPIA to be a significant step forward for Utah. With UTOPIA, we're broadband leaders. Without UTOPIA, we're broadband also-rans.
Several Senators tried to substitute other bills, or amend the bill, so that it more of a compromise and didn't outright kill UTOPIA, but in the end, QWEST won this fight. I'm very disappointed, but the fight isn't over yet---there's still the house. I urge you to send an email to, or better yet call your Representative and urge them to vote "no" on SB66.
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Free Amazon Web Services Workshop
Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist for Amazon's Web Services (AWS) wrote to let me know about another Amazon Web Services day. They did the original at last year's ETCon in Santa Clara. This one's in San Francisco on March 17th, and like last time, its free. I blogged last year's event. If you want to understand more about how AWS works and see some great examples of it in use, then this is a great event to attend.