It’s amazing how something as simple as a printer can change our opinion on a technology but, in the case of webmail, this is exactly what’s happened.submit_url = ‘http://www.j2fi.net/2008/06/29/how-to-install-roundcube-on-a-midphase-server/’;
Webmail has been relatively popular for half-a-dozen years. Hotmail, Yahoo!Mail and GMail have all enjoyed huge levels of success due to their simplicity and accessibility. [...]
It’s funny how our priorities change over time. A decade ago I would sink nearly every spare dime into my computers, eventually building a machine withover $7000 in components installed, not including all the extra peripherals one would expect to see on an over-powered custom-built workstation. As time wore on, though, having the [...]
06.27.08 | Home, Technology | Jason
With all the competition in the web hosting market, you’d think that companies would be working tirelessly to maintain a 99.9% uptime and offering superior services for rock bottom prices. However, for reasons I can’t understand, most hosting companies lean more towards offering sub-par services for premium prices. Luckily, there are some companies [...]
The Lull must be in full swing because it’s that time of year when memes are flying through the blogosphere. Mike recently tagged me with one on “8 Random Facts” and, while this won’t be my first, it might be fun to share some Would’a, Could’a, Didn’t stories. Besides, what better place to [...]
The Chicago Tribune recently ran an article discounting a position held by long-time comedian-turned-sociologist Bill Cosby that rap music and hip-hop culture is partly to blame for the “moral breakdown of the family” unit. Associate Professor at the Chicago State University, Yan Dominic Searcy, cuts right to the chase in the piece and, oddly [...]
In a world full of colour it’s sometimes amazing to meet people who have an incredibly black-and-white view of the world. Over the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to speak with some of the most obtuse environmentalists, via email, who attended the recent summit in Thailand about their solutions to the emissions [...]
06.12.08 | Politics, Science, Technology, World | Jason
The last few months have been pretty stressful as I have been getting more accustomed to married life as well as my role in Japanese society. This, of course, has led me to consider my life in Vancouver and compare it to the future that I see for myself here on an island nation. [...]
This is my 600th post on j2fi.net and, to mark the occasion, I’d like to ask your opinion on something that’s been quite common for me, lately: back-dating posts.
The last few months have been pretty busy for me. Between work, marriage and all sorts of other responsibilities, I just haven’t had enough time to accomplish [...]
Okay … so it’s taken just over a month to get lots of the wedding photos collected, with the slowest contributor being the wedding photographer! Well … I shouldn’t say that. We did get the wedding photos from them pretty quick, however, we had also requested a digital copy of all the photos. Figuring this [...]
As many people know, Reiko and I tied the knot last month at a small gathering with our closest friends and family here in Nagoya, Japan. Because a few of the guests had come from Canada, and another from Norway, we wanted to help them out by finding a place where they could stay with [...]
Nick over at RomanDock recently wrote a post discussing the importance of headlines, and decided to hand a few of them out in an effort to get some discussion going, as well as encourage some of the more silent sites to begin posting again. I’ll admit that I’m a bit tardy with this post, [...]
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