An odd thing happened on Friday: my “Get out of English Free” card didn’t work.
Friday evening, while I was making the trek from 本山駅 to 名古屋駅, I was stuck on the subway with a bunch of over-active high school girls. Like most high school girls, these kids were loud, laughing, and causing a scene. Being [...]
11.30.09 | Japan, Living in Japan, Working in Japan | Jason
How many hours have you sunk into Solitaire since Windows 3.1? What style of play did you prefer?
In my case, I took up the card game once again roughly six weeks ago as a way to distract myself from the endless headaches that seem to await every single train ride I take. Since high school, [...]
Every so often it’s fun to check out some statistics to see just how much time we waste on various activities. Earlier today I decided to kill ten minutes to see what my Tweets might look like. While the numbers were no surprise, the Tweet Cloud was:
It seems I have a predisposition with time, work, [...]
GoDaddy: The company was once one of my preferred online destinations whenever I needed a domain name, but has quickly devolved into a pile of AOL-like feces; the stench of which is so detestable that a single whiff can cause instant blindness and fits of uncontrollable rage. Why, you ask, has GoDaddy gone from being [...]
11.24.09 | Development, Internet | Jason
There’s been yet another report of data theft in the news, this time involving thousands of customer records at T-Mobile in the UK. CDs containing customer names, addresses, and the date their mobile contract ended were sold by employees of T-Mobile for what was probably a ridiculous sum of money. This sort of activity is [...]
11.19.09 | Technology, World | Jason
How easy is it for you to read Tweets, status updates, blog posts, or emails?
i lyke too tok on teh web bkuz my bffs r on it
Did you understand that one sentence? I’m sure you did. But could you read it as quickly as you could every sentence that has followed it? Probably not.
A few [...]
After about 10 days of using the site that everyone seems to be on, I’ve decided that it’s just not where I want to be. It’s true that Facebook can connect us with people whom we’ve lost contact with in the past, and it’s also true that Facebook is a pretty easy way to see [...]
11.11.09 | Internet, Technology | Jason
Earlier today @Papadimitriou and I were swapping Tweets about people on the train who openly read hentai manga, and later in the afternoon I get this comment left on my site:
What the hell kind of comment is this? First off, the English doesn’t warrant me even considering hitting “Accept”, and secondly, a fucking child porn [...]
Yesterday the Mrs. and I decided to head out into the great outdoors to see some lovely autumn foliage. The idea was one we had both been kicking around for a little while, and with both of us having Monday off, we decided that would be the best day of the week to head out [...]
Do you insist on knowing the name and purpose of every directory and file on your computer? Are you disgusted when applications create directories right off your root? If you said ‘yes’ to either of these questions, then you probably don’t want to use Microsoft’s Security Essentials software.
Over the last week or so, a directory [...]
11.2.09 | Technology | Jason
Several years ago I worked as a freelance programmer in my spare time to earn some extra money and learn new ways to solve difficult problems. All in all, it was a lot of fun. I did have the odd run-in with customers who refused to pay or who wanted something that could be used [...]
11.1.09 | Development | Jason
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