| Dialtone’s Unlikely Arc
Someday, Alvaro Albarracin may step back and smile when he thinks about how he guided his company through the dot-com implosion of the past two years. Of course, that would require looking back, and Mr. Albarracin prefers looking ahead. He is already focused on the next move for Dialtone Internet Inc., the privately held company he founded in 1998. We want to be the number 1 managed hosting provider in the world, says the 33-year-old entrepreneur. Wed like to merge with or acquire other companies so we can scale faster. That may sound like a tall order for a company that grossed $7.9 million in sales last year, but given Mr. Albarracins track record, it could well prove achievable. He started his company as a one-man virtual Web-hosting firm in the bedroom of his home in suburban Miami. He and his wife, Madelyn, and their two young children had just moved into a four-bedroom home, and he convinced her that the extra bedroom could be an office.
Tri-State Briefs
BELMONT, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Continuing Education Department and the Southwest Wisconsin Regional Economic Development Coalition are hosting the Building Economic Strength Together conference from 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 11, at the Baymont Convention Center in Belmont. Event organizers say the conference brings people who are committed to local and regional economic development together and teaches them how individual successes can promote economic wellness throughout the region and state. The cost for a full-day conference, including dinner, is $55 per person, $45 per person if they are in groups of two or more, $25 for a full-time student and $25 for dinner only. To register, visit www.uwplatt.edu/cont_ed or call UW-P Continuing Education at 608-342-1314.
Wells fires free-kick winner
The game only got the go ahead an hour before kick off as morning rain had made the pitch very heavy but fortunately the wind got up and blew the worst of the showers away and the game went ahead. Cambridge had fought a 2-2 draw at the Beveree earlier in the season but on this occasion never really got to grips with the conditions or the opposition. .
Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's ...
Nothing says "I love you" like fork-tongued thrash metal. That's why, just in time for V-Day, we bring you the romantic saga of Dallas-based Damageplan, the new noise gods on the block formed by guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul, formerly of Pantera. With Pat Lachman on vocals, Bob Zilla on bass and, we figure, Lucifer on cow bell, Damageplan has recorded New Found Power, a full-length that came out February 10 on Elektra. It's filled with valentines such as "Soul Bleed" and "Fuck You," which features the sly seduction: "Fuck this, all of this/Bitch and moan and piss." Awwww. I think we can agree that New Found Power is the perfect Valentine's Day gift, especially if your lover prefers switchblades to Cupid's little arrows. After all, what's a dozen roses when you could give her "Blunt Force Trauma" (track 12)? Gosh, honey, you shouldn't have.
2007 Tri-County All-Star Football Team
JASON SMITH STAFF PHOTOGRAPHEShawnee running back Jon Wright (33) carries the ball Nov. 17 during a second-round playoff game against eventual state champion Guthrie. Wright is a member of the News-Star's 2007 Tri-County All-Star Football Team, along with Wolfpack teammates Tucker Brown, Tajhler Phillips, Brandon Carter and Forrest Reed. .
What I Learned in Jail Last Night
He's the only what who really believes in what we do, though," the lady cop sighed. They transported us to the precinct in the Canal Street subway station. Still handcuffed, they pulled the bobby pins out of my hair, the shoelaces out of my shoes, took my backpack and all belongings into custody, and removed my belt. My nose was running from not being able to reach my face for two hours, and my makeup was smeared from lying facedown in the police van. I fit right in! They put me in a cell and slammed the door. My cellmate was a teenage-looking, chubby goth girl with holes in her tights who scratched herself compulsively. We said nothing to each other; meanwhile, the guys in the two cells next to us were practically having a party. They'd gotten some guards to buy them Cokes and were hollering and yelling about "we'll be outta here by 3 a.m., no problem." They were in for the crimes of "outstretch" and turnstile-jumping.
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