For the record, I really like my job. In fact just today I was telling my boss about how I like how I can learn much more at work than in a university setting. Without skipping a beat he said I could work as many more hours that I want

Enjoyed seeing your note about Colorado SIlicon Network:it's been a heck of a project.

But like you I was miffed that no one had ever done anything for this state's ICT sector. But IT or ICT is the "enabling technology" that allows everything else to happen. Colorado's biggest export is "chips". Not oil and not agriculture, as most would assume. We have 5 times as many chip related (design, test, application) jobs as in the largest similar concentration in all of Europe (our best kept secret). That place is the southwest of England.

CSN has forged a collaboration with my old region in the UK (See SiliconSouthwest) and, prior to them, in the South of France (see Provence Promotion or Mobile Valley). We, three, regions want to be very international in our cross-promotional and collaboration of developing knowledge based networks. In the end all three regions prosper. Places such as DSP Valley in Leuven, Belgium and the Rhone Alps (Grenoble, home to ST Micro) hope to join us.

You and your readers should please feel fee to call meif you want to know more about Colorado or CSN: Bruce Gammill (970-631-8722) in Fort Collins CO