Social Blunder #6
When the vast majority of your co-workers think you're "Most Likely to Go Postal", it's a bad idea to joke about bringing in an AK-47. Just sayin'.
Author: Jesse
Richard M. Stallman: Tactless and Tasteless in the Wake of the Peru Quake
In a move seemingly designed to compete with Bob Murray's recent insensitivity, Richard M. Stallman, a founding figure of the free software movement, decided to end a short article about the recent earthquake in Peru with a bizarre nonsequitur paragraph...
The Special Session Was an Unnecessary Waste of Time
How long does it take legislators to figure out the complex issues surrounding the recent school district splits? More than one week of preparation and one day of actual special session apparently. About the only results produced from dragging legislators...
Social Blunder #84
A voice mail is not the place to start monologuing. Leaving me a 2-minute message to say what could be said in 20 seconds means it'll take that much longer for me to call you back (plus the time to...
Defeating Despotism One Kitchen Counter at a Time
The trip to Home Despot is often enough to make me drag my heels for weeks on basic home improvement tasks. It's usually too crowded, nobody useful works there, nothing is labeled. I suppose if you're a elbow-throwing contractor that...
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...
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...
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