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...
Author: Jesse
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!)
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
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...
My Own Private Idaho?
On our way home from visiting Shauna's brother last night, the radio station we normally listen to was playing a lot of off-the-wall stuff as part of the night format. Something that really jumped out at me was the B-52's...
Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us
In a move designed to infuriate the technical community (yours truly included), the judge in the patent case between Verizon and Vonage has issued an order that Vonage is prohibited from completing calls from its service to a regular phone...
And yet, I can't look away.
In the proud tradition of Badger Badger Badger and Peanut Butter Jelly Time, I give you: LeekSpin. (Hat tip: Ethan at SLC Spin.) Warning: this will be stuck in your head for weeks and yet you won't be able to...
Some Real Innovation in Education
A recently released report proposes some big changes to the way schools currently run their operations. It's got the usual stuff like increasing teacher salaries (which, adjusted for inflation, have stayed flat for over 30 years), expanding college programs that...
It's about time the groundhog did his part.
Yesterday marked the true first sign of spring. No, I’m not talking about sunny skies and chirping birds. I’m talking about busting out the grill and doing some manly cooking over open flame. Yes, I broke out the BBQ for...
A Concert I Won't Be Going To
When Shauna first told me about a tour of Cyndi Lauper, Blondie and Erasure coming to USANA Amphitheater, I was pretty stoked to see it. We had seen Erasure in May of 2005 when we first moved to Utah but...
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