Tomorrow I’m driving up to BYU Idaho to give a presentation titled “Technical Communication Careers: Getting Started and Finding Your Niche.” It’s part of their annual Pre-Professional Writing Conference for English and professional writing students. I like to go because I have an old colleague up there who teaches English (we spent 2 years in Egypt teaching at The American University in Cairo), and it’s … more »

In looking for an apartment, I found ApartmentRatings.com tremendously helpful. This site allows residents to anonymously rate and comment about their apartment complex. After reading the comments residents wrote about Hunter’s Woods apartments in Murray, I decided that, although the square footage was about 300 more sq. ft than any surrounding apartment, the area’s crime (namely drug dealing) and the poor maintenance responses by the … more »