Every time there’s the slightest amount of snow in Central Texas, the entire city of Austin shuts down. Usually, this is an overreaction.

Today was different. When I got up this morning, it was already sleeting. A couple of hours later, it turned to snow, and it’s been snowing on and off since then. In nearly four decades in Austin, I’m not sure I can remember when we’ve gotten so much snow.

After three days of panic by the local media, the snow finally arrived. Indeed! Snow in central Texas!

A few weeks back, I received a jury summons. I’ve never served on a jury, and I wouldn’t mind doing so, except that right now I’m relatively busy with client work. In addition, I’m bidding some projects that I might lose if I end up spending two or three weeks in a jury box.
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Lynn Bender is the man behind GeekAustin.org, a community for Austin’s high-tech industry. The site contains news and postings of interest to the technical community, as well as information on the numerous real world events GeekAustin.org hosts.

In the early 1990’s, Julie Fergerson managed the help desk for IBM’s Austin office. She was bothered by the inefficiencies of their systems, so she began using web technologies to reduce costs and improve technologies. In doing so, she created perhaps the first corporate internet.

Note: This is the first in a series of biographies of and interviews with the people who made things happen in Austin’s early internet history. H/T to William Leake of Apogee Search for the idea behind this series.

Prior to 1990, Steve Jackson was known as the the man behind Austin, Texas based Steve Jackson Games, publisher of the games Car Wars, Illuminati, and GURPS. Then, everything changed.

The Texas Longhorns kickoff to the UTEP Miners to start the game on Saturday, September 26, 2009. Did I mention it was hot?

It was a brutally hot afternoon at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, with lots of empty seats (yet somehow more than 101K in attendance). Those of us there did our best to cheer the Longhorns as they took the field to play the UTEP Miners.

As always, the Wife and I were in Section 127 (upper deck eastside at about the 28 yard line). As usual, I brought a camera with me to take some pictures.

We started at the north gate to see the coaches and players walk in.

Saturday evening, September 19, 2009, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium hosted the largest crowd ever to attend a game in the state of Texas (101,297 official attendance). I shot this video of the opening kickoff to capture the environment.