Monica asks, in reponse to an earlier post about the guy who complained about people eating at their desks:
I’ve got a coworker who apparently figured out how to eat by watching barnyard animals or something. You can hear the guy chewing pizza from 30 feet away, and crunchy stuff like chips is worse. He snacks [...]

It’s hard to believe, but some people out there actually like invitation websites like evite, and aren’t afraid to admit it in public. Shocking, isn’t it?
Well, let’s see if I’m all alone in my stand against them.

How do you like your invitations?

Plain old email

Invitation sites like evite.com

Public announcement on mailing list/blog/LJ

In person/telephone

Snailmail

IP over carrier [...]

From comments on my previous post on how to write an invitation, Tracey asks:
We had a house fire last fall and since have moved into our new home. We would like to invite our friends and family to thank them all for their support. Can anyone help me out as to how to word this [...]

Via schwern, an older one I hadn’t read before: Andy Lester’s Geek Culture Considered Harmful.
Urban Bohemian wonders whether he’s part Kryptonian or whether his cube-neighbours just need to shut the hell up.
LifeHacker addresses the world’s most important issues: just how pointless is a one-word email saying “thanks”?
Emurse offers a handful of sample resignation letters.
WTF du [...]

Mary has been kind enough to contribute another article on the subject of social engagements. Yesterday it was all about how to politely accept an invitation; today it’s how (or how not) to wriggle out of a social engagement after you’ve said you’ll attend.
Blowing off social engagements
The primary rule is to consider how much [...]

Mary Gardiner is a regular commenter here on GE and also the International Co-ordinator of LinuxChix, a group for women who use Linux. When I posted asking Who are you? the other day, she replied with the following, which I’m promoting up here because it’s worth reading:

One thing I’d be interested in is the [...]

It’s time for the airing of pet peeves. Mine is invitations. Later, I’ve got two guest posts from Mary Gardiner (frequent commenter here and LinuxChik (is that the singular?) extraordinaire) about accepting and/or blowing off invitations. But for now, how to invite people to stuff.
First, let’s cover the idea of those websites [...]

Since I’ve been writing GE I’ve been keeping an eye out for other etiquette sites. I track the del.icio.us tag, keep an eye on Technorati, and google regularly. And you know what I find? Heaps and heaps of articles about wedding etiquette, and a surprising amount about urinal etiquette or threesome etiquette [...]

Since I’ve started blogging here more regularly in the last little while, and hope to keep doing so, I decided to mark the event with actually getting a domain just for Geek Etiquette.
Right now I’m in the middle of transitioning from http://geeketiquette.infotrope.net/ to http://geeketiquette.com/ . It’s a little bit fiddly and I [...]

No, really!
Follow my logic here.
You know when you’re at your desk and you’re deep in the middle of hacking on something and someone comes up behind you and wants your attention? And you break off, turn around, and say “what?” And then they take half a step back and cringe a little bit, [...]

I see about 350 subscribers to Geek Etiquette, many of you via the Livejournal syndicated feed. I know I know a lot of you already — especially those who are regular commenters — but I’d love to find out who else is here.
So, who are you?
Where are you?
What do you do?
What kind of geek [...]

The other day I posted a guide to eating lunch at your desk. I didn’t just come up with it out of nowhere. Oh no. I came up with it as I gently sauted garlic and anchovies in olive oil that evening, and remembered a guy I used to work with.
Peter sat [...]

How do you decide whether to eat lunch at your desk? This is how it works at my current place of employment.

If my http access logs are anything to go by, I get a lot of people coming here looking for information about business casual clothing for women. Tough topic! It’s hard enough to explain business casual at all, but at least men have the benefit of not having fashion change on them quite [...]

Via my friend David Gerard, who writes on LiveJournal: Revealed! Why the Wikipedia community is on crack.
He links to a fantastic article by Clay Shirky which I hadn’t read before: A group is its own worst enemy. This is compulsory reading. Ever wondered why your mailing list, IRC channel, or web forum degenerated [...]

There’s a thread going on the London Perl Mongers mailing list, wherein one poster thoughtlessly addressed his email to “Gentlemen” and got called on it.
It’s easy to do, and there’s no reason not to when you know that the group you’re talking to are all men. But what if you don’t know? What [...]

Who knew that data recovery was like working on a suicide prevention hotline? Check out thislist of tips for dealing with someone whose hard drive has crashed:
“Sometimes I’ll hear someone say, ‘If I can’t get my data back, I don’t know what I’ll do,’ and that’s a tip to me,” she says, as are [...]