Jason's Place

If I’ve learned anything in my career, it is that approaching software development as an expert, as someone who has already discovered everything there is to know about a given topic, is the one surest way to fail.  – Jeff Atwood while answering criticism of his blog

This quote for some reason really strikes a cord [...]

Well, I’m trying to be somewhat official with my fortune widget by adding it to the wp-plugins database and committing the code to the svn server.  So far I haven’t had any luck as I keep running into an error when attempt to commit:

$ svn ci -m "Initial Commit" –username ****** –password ‘******’
Adding [...]

I found this great conclusion to an article on OSNews called ‘Microsoft: Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista’:
“… I’m sure many agree with me that needing 2GB of RAM just to run an operating system properly feels rather ridiculous.” – Thom Holwerda while discussing Windows Vista performance.

Your off the hinges! You had hinges… and now they’re off! – Kevin Pereira on G4’s Attack of the Show

Some time ago I had posted about a new issue with managing my blog in the way of random new accounts being created.  At the time it seemed fairly consistent that they were all Russia based domains (.ru), and they all had fairly unreadable account names, so I simply kept removing those accounts.  Not long [...]

As I’ve posted in the past, I currently use Photoshop Elements as my photo organization / editor of choice.  The main reasons for this is that it is a lowest cost product that has the features that I expect, such as hi-quality red-eye removal, and good raw image processing.  [Tangent on Picasa:  If they would [...]

When Nintendo released the Wii, they included a online store called the “Shopping Channel”.  In this shopping channel there is a section called Virtual Console, where a player can download previously released games for NES, SNES, N64, as well as Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16/CD, and Neo Geo gaming systems.  When I was first exposed to this [...]

Around a month ago Nine Inch Nails released an album dub’ed “Ghosts I-IV“, available as a “web-only” release initially.  Not only was this release cheap, being only $5, but it was also available in lossless formats.  So to continue in their radical releases, which I hope have the recording labels squirming, they release another album [...]

A couple weeks ago I post about how my site appeared to be affected by some sort of Google Analytics breakage.  Well after some time investigating this, it appears that Google has nothing to do with this after all.  In fact the page is perfectly viewable by everyone except for my Firefox browser at work.  [...]