Jason's Place

I just wanted to welcome home and thank the 168 soldiers from Texas National Guard Armory, Alpha Company 3-144 IN that came home today.  One thing can be said about smaller towns is that they rally around their boys when they come home.  It was an awesome sight to see everyone lining highway 34 and [...]

The Ubuntu distributions released version Hardy Heron, version 8.04 today after much anticipation. Mark Shuttleworth described this release as “our most significant ever”, when interviewed by the BBC. 8.04 definitely has some big expectations, as it the first LTS (Long Term Support) release in over two years.

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I’m not quite sure when this started, but this morning I noticed that my page wasn’t being formatted correctly when browsing via Firefox. I noticed, after a few moments of looking into the problem, that javascript was reporting the “_gat” is not defined. Immediately I knew it was the Google Analytics code that [...]

The other day, while I was reading up on Boost and TR1, I ran across an interesting feature called a namespace alias. With a namespace alias, you essentially call out a new namespace that will reference back to the one specified. The example where I had found this was in example code dealing [...]

Today, I have purchased, for the very first time a download of an entire musical album.  The first you may think is, big deal.  I realize that a growing number of people have been using services such as iTunes for some time now.  As I’ve said in the past though, I feel that your not [...]