The ever-entertaining Rands has just posted his Nerd Handbook.
Your nerd might come off as not liking people. Small talk. Those first awkward five minutes when two people are forced to interact. Small talk is the bane of the nerd’s existence because small talk is a combination of aspects of the world that your nerd hates. [...]

Not quite on the etiquette subject, but I was hoping some of you lovely people could help out with another project of mine.
As I mentioned before, I’m travelling at the moment to Vanuatu, a developing nation in the South Pacific. The technical community here is small and under-resourced; there’s only a little Internet access, [...]

I’m going off on international travels with potentially patchy net access for the next two months. No, seriously. I’ll be spending some time in a developing country, and some time in a yacht at sea, and, OK, some time in San Francisco where I presume the net access will be better, but that’s [...]

I’m at BarCampBlock so there’s going to be a bit of a change in format here while I liveblog Michael Schwern’s talk, “Geek to Geek: how we fail, how to fix it.”
What’s this talk about?

We’re good at computer science and bad at people

We have certain patterns of failure and certain ways to fix those

Schwern is [...]

Just wanted to mention that I’m travelling at the moment, which is why the posting schedule here is a bit patchy. I’m in San Francisco, playing tourist and geeking out a lot. Are there any GE regulars in town? Drop me a line if you’d like to meet up. Meanwhile, I’m [...]

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’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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Via Mary, a great post from Dorothea Salo about how to make geekland more inviting:
So here is what you do, if you’re a man wanting to help. You say, “Um, was that supposed to be funny? Because, not laughing here.” You say, “Hey, could we not use that phrase? I don’t like it.” You say [...]

There’s nothing quite like keeping an etiquette blog to make you feel like a fraud.
I just started a new job back home in Australia, and realised how much I love arguing with Australian geeks. If there’s a geek tendency to say “NO THAT’S WRONG” without any attempt at politeness, it goes double on this [...]

A few miscellaneous points, before I get back into a regular routine of columns.
I’ve made it to Sydney, Australia, and wrote about half a GE column on the plane. It ended up being kind of stream-of-consciousness, so here’s all I’m prepared to show:
See, I was going to start this out as an article [...]

In another forum, Andy (a GE commenter) asked:

Why me, Lord?
What did I ever do?
That caused you to make people touch my monitor?

Leaving aside the religious debates about suffering and God’s will and suchlike, let’s simply address it as an etiquette question.
Don’t touch other people’s monitors.
It’s that simple. Just don’t. If you have to [...]

A quick welcome to 100+ readers via LiveJournal’s syndicated feed. I’m damned_colonial over there if you happen to have any interest in my other obsessions and/or the minutiae of my daily life.
Speaking of my daily life, right now I’m in the throes of packing to move around the world, and my article on how [...]

It’s hard not to feel like an enormous fraud writing this blog, when in my last two performance reviews at work, I’ve been dinged pretty hard for lack of social skills.
I just know that next time I’m out in public I’m going to make some ghastly gaffe, and someone’s going to tease me [...]

I’m your host, Kirrily Robert, often called Skud, and I’ll be posting articles on etiquette for geeks.
No, seriously.
And don’t tell me it’s not needed. Just look around you.
So why Geek Etiquette? What’s special about us?
The vast majority of your basic etiquette book — Emily Post or what have you — is [...]