Author: Jesse

WordPress Comment Problems 3

WordPress Comment Problems

It looks like we're having some problems with some comments not showing up properly in WordPress. One of them was edited to fix some bad HTML, but the others that aren't appearing seem to have no rhyme or reason to...

Restaurant Roundup: El Paso, TX 0

Restaurant Roundup: El Paso, TX

Work-related travel had me spending the latter half of the week in the Lone Star State, a river away from both a foreign country and another state. El Paso looks a lot like pretty much any other town in any...

Power For Water: A Vital Trade for the West's Future 3

Power For Water: A Vital Trade for the West's Future

Ask most people what they imagine when they think of the West and they'll probably call up an image not too unlike a barren wasteland of cacti and tumbleweeds. Despite the green fields of Utah and the lushly forested banks...

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant? 0

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant?

Web folks are fascinated with statistics. We love to see how many visits our blogs get, how they get there, who's linking to us and what browser everyone is using. In our quest for meaningful data concerning who's reading and...

Restyling The Template 2

Restyling The Template

One of the best parts of WordPress is the ability to customize to your heart's content. You can either go as basic as downloading and installing a new theme or plugin or as extensive as re-writing individual components. Today I...

Week on Food Stamps: You were supposed to suffer, not innovate! 80

Week on Food Stamps: You were supposed to suffer, not innovate!

Last week, legislators across the country decided to take part in the Food Stamp Challenge, a project to have elected officials live on the same budget as a person on food stamps for a week. About a dozen Utah civic...

Utah Congressional Delegation Supports Walmart Bank 0

Utah Congressional Delegation Supports Walmart Bank

In a measure sure to steam everyone who hates America's favorite big box, Utah's entire House delegation voted against HR 698, a measure to prevent anyone from opening an industrial bank unless financial transactions account for 85% or more of...

The Voucher Fight Moves To The Courts 6

The Voucher Fight Moves To The Courts

As predictably as the Cubs crushing the spirits of their fans with a long string of losses, it looks like HB 174, the second voucher bill, is going to result in a legal showdown between the attorney general, state school...

Restaurant Roundup: Ottumwa, IA 4

Restaurant Roundup: Ottumwa, IA

"Ottum-where?" That was my reaction when I was first asked to go to Iowa for work. Everything I had heard about the state lead me to believe that it would be endless fields of cows and corn with no signs...