Would financial transparency help MLB teams avoid collusion charges? As the winter baseball meetings get underway, it's clear that the economy is having an effect on the free agent market. Donald Fehr of the player's union has already mentioned that the union is watching the owners very carefully for signs of collusion. I'm wondering how much information the owners are going to have to disclosed to prove that their free agent signing strategy was due to finances and not due to collusion

Yesterday, Omaha's Mayor Mike Fahey announced that all city departments needed to start cutting their budgets. Maybe the Chamber of Commerce should have pulled that radio ad about how recession proof Omaha is...... I'm just sayin.....

Haven't posted for over a year. Time to crank this sucker up. Today's chore is to visit the local co-location facility and get more familiar with the Pseries machines that I admin. I have most of the configurations down, but I have several gaps in the knowledge base. On Web 2.o front, I'm having problems with the normally wonderful Hiveminder not acknowleding my Twitter account. I'm not sure how to get Hiveminder's attention to get help. That will be an adventure.