• Connections - Dear Mom

    Waiting For Melissa

    November 26, 2011 - By 

    Our niece Melissa is coming over for a few hours; we’ll hang out with Rileycat and then head off to see the new Muppet movie, and after that we’ll all go down to see her grandparents and have dinner. She’ll stay with them tonight. It’s a social whirlwind when she comes to town – she lives pretty quietly down in Southern Illinois, so we try to pack a lot of “family time” into her occasional visits up here for holidays. Thanksgiving was a nice time… David’s Aunt Norma did a lovely job as always, hosting 42 (!) people at 4…

  • Geek Out! - Uncategorical Weirdness

    425-390-8105 Is Probably the ANTI Do Not Call Database

    November 21, 2011 - By 

    I received a call at work from a Renton WA number, and immediatly after got a spam text message. When I called the Renton number back, it was a voicemail saying “Welcome to the Do Not Call database. If you would like to be added to the database, enter your 10-digit phone number.” Note, no “Federal,” no mention of a US governmental entity. So I assume that it was actually an opt-in database for phone spammers, based on a bit of Googling around as seen below. One commenter remarked that it’s probably “out of country” spammers using some kind of…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    How One Utah Deals With Trolls: Into The Bucket!

    November 20, 2011 - By 

    Be sure to check back to see if/how this develops. This post shall serve as collection station; a trash bucket for the uniformed, poorly-sourced or offensively-stupid comments of angry right-wingers, bigots, racists, misogynists or anonymous trolls. This collection shall become a compost heap of sorts where these comments, as designated by OneUtah authors, will over time, fester, boil and decay until finally merging into a steaming pile of something that smells a lot like the abject suffering, socioeconomic injustice and murder of the innocent wrought upon us by blind obedience to the evil masters, politicians, pundits, corporations, false prophets, demagogues…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-11-20

    November 20, 2011 - By 

    Okay, now what did I miss? Be concise. # RT @guardiannews Warren Buffett buys $10bn IBM stake http://t.co/LFKEAipW # Retrained on something that, once again, is only working in the training room. And now we go back to the old way while we wait for IT. # Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Urban Rider #bike http://t.co/EAkUI0V6 # Jonathan Guyer: The Mendacious Mr. Netanyahu? #israel #nuance http://t.co/0QRIYG7K # Delta: Beware of bogus e-mails, postcards – http://t.co/xOOMbaE6 http://t.co/z9AxQSw6 # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-11-13

    November 13, 2011 - By 

    RT @LinBrehmer "Michael Vick just winked at me. Awkward." # RT @LinBrehmer "Down the rabbit hole. We're on the air." // Helmets and safety glasses, everyone. # Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about // Shared via #FEEDDLER #sharebros http://t.co/9nTrvtbO # I just used #Shazam to discover I'm The Slime by Frank Zappa. http://t.co/NFwo0ym0 # Snow flurries. Here we go again. #fb # I just used #Shazam to discover Blow Your House Down by U2. http://t.co/UlMjeEk8 # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Fixed a display error all by myself

    November 11, 2011 - By 

    This is just a memo as to how I finally fixed a display error on the Holy Moly website. Something I did recently, probably related to social plugins, caused the body to overflow to the right. There were big scroll bars at the bottom, and it looked terrible. Tl;dr: the width in a Facebook Connect button I was using was set to 450px, but I was using it in a 200px sidebar. My family members (except for my husband David) should stop reading here.