Journal Entry: July 24, 2001

Did another big update on this website, converting everything over to use CSS.  That’s not an overly simple task in the realm of FrontPage, but it’s done!

As I wrote in my journal entry a couple weeks ago, I’m starting my own company.  I just sent the paperwork off today to the Colorado Secretary of State and the IRS.  The company is Zang Spur Consulting LLC.  I’m setting up a website for it, but it’s still very much under construction. I’ve been spending the past several days writing a business plan for myself to serve as a guide over the next few months.

You might be asking yourself, “Where does the name Zang Spur come from?”  Well, here’s the story:

Why Zang Spur Consulting?

Well, I needed a name and I wanted something with some geographical significance.  It turns out that in the 19th century, the town now known as Broomfield, Colorado was called Zang’s Spur.  

The name comes from the farmer who lived here, Adolph Zang.  He convinced the local railroad to build a rail spur out to his farm, to make it easier for him to get his goods to Denver.  So, that rail spur was known as Zang’s Spur and the township that formed up around it got the same name.  Sometime in the 1890’s the name changed to Broomfield, after the fields of broom corn grown here. I didn’t like the ’s in Zang’s Spur, since it made the name tougher to spell and didn’t yield a nice internet domain name.  So I dropped the ’s and stuck with Zang Spur. The City of Broomfield did the same on the sign for Zang’s Spur Centennial Park, which now simply reads “Zang Spur Park”.