Internship

I accepted an internship offer last night! I'll be going to work for Blue Coat, a company that creates internet proxies for very large companies. For those less geeky, a proxy filters communications. This way people don't use company resources to go looking for porn, etc

They also make a wonderful free home solution! K-9 Web Protection is a filter that keeps elements of webpages from coming up, not just an entire webpage. You can configure it to be as tight or as loose as you like, have an override password, make it apply to many different kinds of webpages (chat, gambling, porn...). Visit http://www1.k9webprotection.com/. In a world where our children will be even more an internet generation than we are, I think it is something every parent should seriously consider - even if the family computer is in the living room.

So, I'm excited to go intern at this company (for more money than I've ever earned before at straight-time) because of the challenges in the job, but also because they do good in the community! They took a product that is very good as far as internet filters go, and said, "We need to contribute to the community." So they made a smaller version available for free.

If you are an Apple fan, they're working on a version for you right now. If you use a PC (really, a false dichotomy, but we'll get into that another time), check it out!

So hooray! I got an internship that lasts until I graduate from BYU! I still attend school full-time, so it's part-time right now; when I'm not attending full time, I can work full-time at this internship. Of course, there's potential for a full-time job when I graduate... So, now we see how long we're in Utah. They do have a California office...