Low Legislative Pay and The Creative Use of Campaign Funds

The Deseret News ran a story yesterday detailing how legislators are spending their leftover campaign funds. Unlike many other states, campaign contributions can be spent in pretty much any way a candidate chooses. Many candidates do things that are normal no matter where you go: give it to other candidates, donate it to charities or […]

Utah Democrats Get pwnz0r’d

Go see for yourself. Looks like a spammer broke in and vandalized the whole site with ads for online gambling.
That totally sucks, guys. I hope you catch the rat bastards that did this to you. And for the rest of you, don't answer the CAPTCHAs. That's how spammers try and sneak past the anti-spam measures […]

Sprinkler Woes

Yesterday afternoon, I set out with a shovel to find out which one of the irrigation pipes it was that had decided to go plooie. It only took having the irrigation lines on for about five minutes before it became very obvious where I needed to start digging. Several hours later (and with Shauna's extensive […]

Movin’ On Up (To the East Side!)

1,597 unique visitors. 3,442 distinct visits. 10,484 pages served with 34,860 hits consuming 2.23GB of traffic. And that's just last month.
What does this all mean? It means we're outgrowing our cable modem connection and need to move to new digs. That traffic doesn't include Shauna or I checking in on the website, traffic by […]

Civility in Public Discourse

Only by pride cometh contention. - Proverbs 13:10
Like most LDS, I spent the last weekend watching General Conference (or as I affectionately call it, "Church in your PJ's Weekend"). As usual, Elder Holland delivered a powerful speech, this one on the power of words. He bemoaned how easily we can and do use words to […]