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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Things managers should keep in mind.
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Utah wants to destroy open government?
This past week has been a bad one for open and transparent government in Utah.
On Tuesday, Utah House Rep. John Dougall, a man who I respected by virtue of his limited government stance, introduced HB477, revisions to the Government Records Access Management Act, that makes many changes to Utah's open records laws, nearly all of them bad.
The changes that are getting the most headlines are ones that exempt electronic communications from government officials from public scrutiny. Right now, e-mails, voice mails, text messages, etc... are presumed open to the public unless they contain material that allows them to be exempted from an open records request. This is a good thing. Lawmakers like Rep. Hendrickson have been quoted in the press, however, as saying that allowing all e-mails to be...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Piers Morgan is awesome
Piers Morgan is great and I can't wait for his show to debut on CNN.
In a time when our choice in cable news is crap coming with a huge slant from the right or crap coming with a huge slant from the left, there's just not much out there worth watching. That is, until later this month.
If you aren't familiar with Piers Morgan, you've probably been living under some type of a rock. He's been prominent in American pop culture the past few years as a judge on "America's Got Talent" and also as the winner of season two of "Celebrity Apprentice." Prior to those exploits, however, Morgan was a very respected British newspaper editor and journalist.
Later this month, he'll be taking over Larry King's timeslot on CNN. It's a show I'll watch until I have a reason not to.
Larry King had way, way,...
Monday, January 3, 2011
Shopping carts as a matter of personal responsibility
I've decided there is no greater sign of laziness amongst our society than failing to return a shopping cart at a store to the "cart corral."
I was at the 1300 South Target tonight (a beautiful new store that opened in October) and on my way out of the store, I noticed there were stray shopping carts all over the parking lot.
This cart someone took the effort to mount up on the curb, you'd think they'd be able to move it 20 feet to a corral?
I snagged one cart as I was going to my car (because I figured if I'm going to walk by a stray cart, AND a cart corral on my way to my car, shouldn't I put it in the corral?) Then after unloading my groceries, I grabbed two other nearby carts and took them both to corrals.
Here you can actually...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
"The Social Network" could be great, but could be sucky
When I went to the movie theater over the weekend to see "The Other Guys" I was drawn into one of the trailers before the film. It was for "The Social Network," which is (a version) of the story of Facebook.
To be sure, there's a lot of drama behind the creation of Facebook, certainly much more than most people realize between planting their crops in FarmVille, offing a rival gang in Mafia Wars or getting into arguments on friends' status messages.
"The Social Network" is based off Ben Mezrich's book, "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal."
For those not familiar with Mezrich, he (I felt) hit the ball out of the park in his 2002 book, "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story...