Over on Livejournal, mimerki talks about answering machine etiquette:
Calling a person every evening for a week and hanging up on their machine, especially a known recalcitrant and asocial person to begin with, is likely to just lead to them refusing to pick up the phone until you talk to the machine. Yes, it is passive-aggressive. [...]

I’m working on an article on semi-formal dress for events like my work’s upcoming conference dinner. But when I told some local geeks about it, they pointed out that they never really dressed up for that kind of thing.
Paul Fenwick said to me, on IRC:
In my social circles, “Formal” means tie, and “Very Formal” means [...]

Avron writes:

I had a thought about how best to get friends/family/colleagues to change the email address they use for you.
* Do you simply do a mass email from the new account to everyone (using the BCC field of course) so they can simply add the new address?
* Do you send from the old so it’s [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while that I should address the issue of Asperger’s/Autism/etc in the geek community, and a recent linkfrom the Asperger community on LJ reminded me of it. Thing is, I don’t know much about the subject. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good resources, hook me [...]

I think just about everyone’s got a story about the worst thing they’ve seen someone do while looking for work. Whether it’s showing up to the interview drunk or publicly badmouthing the company you’re trying to work for, there are all kinds of pitfalls to be avoided. Sometimes it’s just as simple as [...]

I’ve got a work function coming up which includes a semi-formal dinner, and every time I go to one of these things I see people floundering around, confused by the table settings. And we’re not talking about full-on Victorian monstrosities with fish-forks and special devices for sugar-cubes or cutting up bananas. I’m just [...]

I was thinking the other day, as I swore at yet another website, that there are a bunch of similarities between website design and etiquette.
In both cases, you’re trying to build relationships and communicate, and you want the process to go as smoothly as possible. And yet, so often, websites are just [...]

I was just perusing RFC 1855, possibly one of the earliest guides to netiquette that you’re likely to find still readily available, and thought I’d share a few exerpts:
In the past, the population of people using the Internet had “grown up” with the Internet, were technically minded, and understood the nature of the transport and [...]

I found an interesting post from Grayden over on LiveJournal, and he’s kindly allowed me to repost it here as a guest post:

Many geeks fall into the camp of “if I worked in a job where The Man made me wear a suit, I’d go postal” or some other such vague anti-authority threat. I guess [...]

I’ve covered dress codes a bit before: business casual, business casual for women, the alleged death of business casual, and what to do if you don’t have a dress code at all.
What I’m wondering is, how many of us have dress codes at work, and just what dresscodes do our workplaces have?

What’s your dresscode?

No dresscode [...]

Everyone’s heard of pair programming, right? It’s one of the best-known practices of Extreme Programming, and basically it involves having two people work on every programming task, providing feedback and encouraging higher quality code.
Some people think — not to mince words here — that it’s a load of crap. They’re entitled to their [...]

My company holds a twice-yearly conference for all staff, bringing in people from our various interstate and overseas conferences. During conference week, there’s usually at least one “team” social event — usually informal — plus a more formal full-company dinner on the Friday night.
The social events are optional, and some of the people I [...]