As of August 9th, this little blog has been going for a year. Since then, we've built up from nothing to over 1500 unique visitors dropping by over 4200 times a month, moved from a dinky secondhand server on our cable modem to a real hosting provider and posted 316 times (including this one) amassing […]
Filed under: Website, Blogging on August 15th, 2007 | 17 Comments »
You know you've always wanted to read the collected works of Dickens. Maybe you really want to catch up on your Cervantes. Perhaps you've always meant to read The Art of War but never got around to it. With DailyLit, you can do it easily.
DailyLit is a service that lets you pick out public domain […]
Filed under: Geek, Entertainment on August 15th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Utah is often referred to a "the reddest of the red states", a phrase referring to the current dominance of the Republican Party in the state's politics. Progressives and Democrats regularly harp on this statement as if it's the way it's always been. This characterization, however, is far from the truth.
Filed under: Politics on August 10th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I sent the following e-mail to Sen. Wayne Niederhauser and Rep. Sylvia Andersen today:
Dear Sen. Niederhauser and Rep. Andersen;
My name is Jesse Harris and I'm one of your constituents. As an IT professional, I've seen first-hand the kind of damage bulk unsolicited e-mail can cause to unprepared organizations. The investment made in trying to filter […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Utah on August 9th, 2007 | 9 Comments »
In the strangest political news so far this week, the Pirate Party of the United States has decided to try and get on the ballot in Utah, a state with relatively simple ballot access requirements and a penchant for voting third party more often than anyone else. No, they're not promoting pillaging, plundering or […]
Filed under: Politics, Twilight Zone on August 9th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Shauna and I watched Serendipity tonight. As with every other one of his flicks I've seen, it was good. I'm beginning to think he just can't make truly bad movies.
Or do I have some kind of weird man-crush on the dude?
Filed under: Entertainment, Tender Lumplings on August 8th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I have the very same couch made from zebra skin. (click on the picture for a larger image)
Filed under: Entertainment, Tender Lumplings on August 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thin is in, especially with school districts. Both Granite School District and Jordan School District (the latter of which covers my area) are facing the possibility of breaking up into tinier pieces, mainly along east/west divides. I'm thankful that the County Council has the good sense to not let the issues move forward this year […]
Filed under: Politics on August 7th, 2007 | No Comments »
I've been attending meetings of the White City Community Council for the last several months in hopes of getting them pumped up enough about UTOPIA to find a way to join. I'd been making some good progress in selling them on the project, but the last meeting revealed something that far dwarfs it in […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on August 4th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Work took me back to Texas, this time to the near-Gulf metropolis of Houston. I was pretty eager to partake of a city known for its great dining and fresh seafood with plenty of Texas flair. The city itself was less than comfortable. Non-stop rain produced stifling humidity, the kind that fogs your glasses when […]
Filed under: Food, Travel on August 2nd, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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