Monthly Archive: April 2007

Low Legislative Pay and The Creative Use of Campaign Funds 2

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...

Utah Democrats Get pwnz0r'd 2

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...

Sprinkler Woes 1

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...

Movin' On Up (To the East Side!) 2

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...

Civility in Public Discourse 6

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...