Since replacing Outlook with Google’s services a few weeks back, I’ve had the luxury of synchronizing my contacts, calendar, and email on my PDA while on the go without relying on a two-step approach involving POP or IMAP. It’s been working great for the most part, but I’ve had a small problem for the last [...]
01.30.10 | Windows Mobile | Jason
Over eight hundred days have passed since I started this blog, but today a nice round number graced my administration screen: 2500. This is the number of comments that currently exist on this site … 62% of which were written by people other than me.
Who was the 2500th person to leave a comment? That would [...]
After six incredible years of exploration, it seems that NASA’s Spirit Rover has reached the end of its mobility. That said, just because it can’t move anymore doesn’t mean the robotic explorer is going to be put down forever.
According to the news report on NASA’s website, Spirit is going to continue conducting scientific experiments as [...]
Today was an unscheduled day off for me as the Mrs. and I thought it would be wiser to visit a doctor sooner rather than later for my recurring chest problems. Monday’s visit to the doctor resulted in a prescription for some light relaxation medicine, but it wasn’t enough to keep the stabbing pains at [...]
HotaruCMS is a new web project that’s being led by Nick Ramsay as an alternative to systems such as Pligg. He’s put in an incredible number of hours on the project and it’s currently sitting at version 1.0.4. I see Hotaru as an exciting project because, unlike the other projects I’ve had over the last [...]
01.28.10 | Development, HotaruCMS, Internet | Jason
Yesterday I wrote Part IV in an ever-going topic about the value of our personal blog, and today I happened to stumble across another absolutely pointless metric: What’s Your Twitter Account Worth?
After a quick examination, it seems that my Twitter account is worth a paltry $115. Worth selling? Pfft, no. I can’t even buy a [...]
The time of the blog may have peaked three years ago, but there’s still money to be made from the platform. The question, however, is ‘how much can you hope to gain’?
Way back in May of 2007, I had written a short little post talking about how this site was being valued at $12,419.88 according [...]
Spam is the bane of the internet, and probably older than the intangible communications platform it infests. How spammers actually turn a profit is often a subject of intense debate but, luckily, we have filters available that can weed out much of the incessant noise. That said, I do sometimes enjoy looking through this site’s [...]
Over the last decade or so I’ve been battling a bunch of minor problems such as insomnia, headaches, chest pain, and blood pressure. Insomnia I can usually deal with as the extra waking hours can be used to analyze things until either I fall asleep, or solve/rationalize a complex problem. Headaches have been a common [...]
After coming home a few hours ago I tried to post a few Tweets and see what the world had been up to while I was sequestered in a remote section of 岐阜県 this afternoon. Unfortunately, Seesmic couldn’t connect to the Twitter API. So, being the impatient man I am, I fired up Opera and [...]
Believe it or not, I had a terrible habit back in Canada. It wasn’t one with drugs, alcohol, women, or even excessive weight gain. Instead it was something much more insidious. Something that, once you’ve been bitten, it’s very hard to break: swearing.
I loved to swear. Not so much for its therapeutic results, but for [...]
01.20.10 | Living in Japan, Working in Japan | Jason
A few days ago, while telling me how stupid I was for saying that I wanted a notebook computer to last at least 15 years...
The countdown is almost up on this year's winter Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and thousands of people residing bo...
Do you ever wonder about your neighbours? I wrote a few months ago about how one of my neighbours has the same camouflag...
Believe it or not, I had a terrible habit back in Canada. It wasn't one with drugs, alcohol, women, or even excessive ...
Over the last decade or so I've been battling a bunch of minor problems such as insomnia, headaches, chest pain, and blo...