A Year of Blogging
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...
Monthly Archive: August 2007
Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way
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,...
The Republicans Weren't Always In Charge: A Brief History of Utah Politics
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...
Spam Wars: Initial Contact
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...
Avast Ye! Pirate Party Coming to Utah
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...
John Cusack can do no wrong.
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...
Seen on Craigslist today
I have the very same couch made from zebra skin. (click on the picture for a larger image)
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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...
Breaking: The Plot to Kill Townships
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...
Restaurant Roundup: Greater Houston and Humble, TX
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...
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