Longer essays by Jason Preston, plus a revived archive from the WordPress years.https://jrpreston.com/https://jrpreston.com/writing/confusing-complexity-for-difficulty/https://jrpreston.com/writing/confusing-complexity-for-difficulty/The number of folks who say that writing a hit song like Uptown Funk is easy is a lot bigger than the number of folks who actually write number one hit songs.Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTcraftsimplicityhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-26-why-economic-models-are-always-wrong/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-26-why-economic-models-are-always-wrong/Why Economic Models are Always Wronghttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=finance-why-economic-models-are-always-wrong "If you had to readjust the...Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-25-email-as-a-dashboard/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-25-email-as-a-dashboard/I just discovered Producteevhttps://www.producteev.com/ via Brett Schultehttp://twitter.com/brettschulte, a task management service that seems to offer real ...Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-25-fbi-to-launch-nationwide-facial-recognition-service/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-25-fbi-to-launch-nationwide-facial-recognition-service/FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition servicehttp://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng201110076100.php?oref=topstory The FBI by mid-January will activate a nat...Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-19-ownlocal-aims-to-resurrect-newspaper-revenues/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-19-ownlocal-aims-to-resurrect-newspaper-revenues/OwnLocal aims to resurrect newspaper revenueshttp://venturebeat.com/2011/10/19/ownlocal-funding-newspaper-revenue/ The startup’s products include a Local H...Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-19-starbucks-create-jobs-for-usa/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-19-starbucks-create-jobs-for-usa/Starbucks' Create Jobs for USAhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/opinion/nocera-we-can-all-become-job-creators.html?r=1 Americans themselves would start lendi...Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-19-why-do-we-sleep/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-19-why-do-we-sleep/Why do we sleep? - Quorahttp://www.quora.com/Sleep/Why-do-we-sleep/answer/Paul-King-2Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-17-make-your-move-interviews/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-17-make-your-move-interviews/"Make Your Move" Interviewshttp://www.fastcompany.com/make-your-move Great short, inspirational interview videos from Fast Company with tech company founders.Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-17-the-amazing-type-writer-app/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-17-the-amazing-type-writer-app/The Amazing Type-Writer Apphttp://typewritten.doormouse.org/ I'm very tempted to make a set of business cards with this app. Watch the demo video. And check ...Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-01-arrington-on-brutal-honesty/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-10-01-arrington-on-brutal-honesty/Arrington on Brutal Honestyhttp://uncrunched.com/2011/10/01/brutal-honesty/ Arrington quotes Vinod Khosla on brutal honesty, and agrees with it: “We prefer...Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-13-please-dont-use-pie-charts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-13-please-dont-use-pie-charts/Please don't use pie chartshttp://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/please-dont-use-pie-charts.html Often the first sign of a report prepared by someone who doesn't know ...Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-09-big-events-vs-little-events/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-09-big-events-vs-little-events/Events suffer from "reverse economies of scale" to a certain point. The more people you have to an event, the more expensive it gets to put together. Coffee ...Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-09-cardinal-rules-of-social-media-usage/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-09-cardinal-rules-of-social-media-usage/Cardinal rules of social media usagehttp://www.avc.com/avc/2011/09/the-logged-out-user-continued.html Let's remember one of the cardinal rules of social medi...Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-07-using-copyright-laws-to-prevent-legal-recordings/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-09-07-using-copyright-laws-to-prevent-legal-recordings/Using copyright laws to prevent legal recordingshttp://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110901/23320615774/forget-wiretapping-laws-now-you-might-be-able-to-use-co...Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-31-us-doj-to-block-att-acquisition-of-t-mobile-usa/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-31-us-doj-to-block-att-acquisition-of-t-mobile-usa/US DOJ to Block AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile USAhttp://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239229/usdojtoblockatandtacquisitionoftmobileusa.html Proof tha...Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-29-distribution-is-different-than-publishing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-29-distribution-is-different-than-publishing/One of the sacred pieces of wisdom about the internet that has developed over the past decade, is that anyone can publish to the web with only a few clicks, ...Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-25-linespotting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-25-linespotting/I really like Mark Suster's phrase that he invests in lines not dotshttp://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/11/15/invest-in-lines-not-dots/. What a great way...Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-17-stop-letting-technical-people-get-away-with-social-ineptitude/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-17-stop-letting-technical-people-get-away-with-social-ineptitude/Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude - Charles Hooper | Charles Hooperhttp://www.charleshooper.net/blog/stop-letting-tech-people-be-...Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-01-mindmaps/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-08-01-mindmaps/MindMapshttp://drichard.org/mindmaps/ Lest anyone doubt that HTML5 is a platform.Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-07-19-reinventing-the-toilet-for-safe-and-affordable-sanitation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-07-19-reinventing-the-toilet-for-safe-and-affordable-sanitation/Reinventing the toilet for safe and affordable sanitationhttp://www.physorg.com/wire-news/72536602/reinventing-the-toilet-for-safe-and-affordable-sanitation....Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-07-11-bill-gross-predicts-massive-g-growth/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-07-11-bill-gross-predicts-massive-g-growth/Bill Gross Predicts Massive G+ Growthhttp://www.techmeme.com/110711/p27a110711p27 Techmeme: I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster...Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-07-01-co-founders/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-07-01-co-founders/If you watch Hacker Newshttp://news.ycombinator.com and blogs written by VCshttp://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/05/09/the-co-founder-mythology/ and entre...Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-29-how-starbucks-is-paving-the-way-for-mainstream-mobile-payments/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-29-how-starbucks-is-paving-the-way-for-mainstream-mobile-payments/How Starbucks Is Paving the Way for Mainstream Mobile Paymentshttp://mashable.com/2011/06/28/starbucks-mobile-pay-tech/ What's interesting to me is that Star...Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-29-steve-perlman-unveils-amazing-new-wireless-tech/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-29-steve-perlman-unveils-amazing-new-wireless-tech/Steve Perlman unveils amazing new wireless techhttp://onlivespot.blogspot.com/2011/06/steve-perlman-unveils-amazing-new.html Steve says that this new wireles...Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-28-poor-mans-cron-solution/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-28-poor-mans-cron-solution/Some of the things you want to do when building a web app are surprisingly complex to set up. I've been using Heroku for hosting while teaching myself to bui...Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-27-law-banning-sale-of-violent-games-to-kids-is-struck-down/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-27-law-banning-sale-of-violent-games-to-kids-is-struck-down/Law banning sale of violent games to kids is struck downhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576411571732346148.html?mod=WSJhpLEADNewsColle...Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-26-simple-social-data/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-26-simple-social-data/You don't have to look far to find smart and influential people discussinghttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363452101709880.html the ...Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-23-the-vc-community-pubicly-opposes-the-protect-ip-act/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-23-the-vc-community-pubicly-opposes-the-protect-ip-act/The VC community pubicly opposes The PROTECT IP Acthttp://www.usv.com/2011/06/the-protect-ip-act-will-slow-start-up-innovation.php From our perspective as in...Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-22-hulu-puts-itself-up-for-sale-retains-investment-banks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-22-hulu-puts-itself-up-for-sale-retains-investment-banks/Hulu puts itself up for sale, retains investment bankshttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/06/hulu-puts-itself-up-for-sale-engages-inve...Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-21-comment-portability/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-21-comment-portability/I know that the way comments and content interact is something Fred Wilsonhttp://avc.com has written about extensively over the past few years, and companies...Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-20-first-steps-in-google-social-search-awesome-branding-for-quora/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-20-first-steps-in-google-social-search-awesome-branding-for-quora/Image: kristi-search.png Just encountered a google search result asking me to connect to Quora. Offhand, this seems to me like a GREAT marketing move for Quora.Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-19-old-computers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-19-old-computers/In the process of moving I've somehow managed to lose a computer. I know things get lost when people move, but it's usually not a 40lb desktop computer that ...Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-15-mark-susters-great-interview-with-bill-gross-founder-of-idealab/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-15-mark-susters-great-interview-with-bill-gross-founder-of-idealab/Mark Suster's great interview with Bill Gross, founder of Idealabhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATArH9Mrt6s&feature=playerembeddedat=173 Fascinating recounti...Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-15-rss-as-infrastructure/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-15-rss-as-infrastructure/I've noticed my direct use of RSS has decreased steadily over the past few years. In 2006 and 2007, I was avidly using a variety of RSS Readers from FeedDemo...Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-15-turntable-invite-only-beta-login-is-inherently-viral/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-15-turntable-invite-only-beta-login-is-inherently-viral/Turntable - invite only beta is inherently viralhttp://turntable.fm/ IMHO, very smart beta login process... Image: turntable.jpgWed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-07-the-creepiness-factor/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-07-the-creepiness-factor/I think that the creepiness factor is something that many of the most promising startups are going to have to content with over the next year and a half, as ...Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-06-method-of-recording-and-saving-of-human-soul/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-06-method-of-recording-and-saving-of-human-soul/Method of Recording and Saving of Human Soulhttp://www.google.com/patents?id=CS20AAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1v=onepage&q&f=false I think I could improve on this pa...Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-01-analysis-of-32-startup-post-mortems/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-01-analysis-of-32-startup-post-mortems/Analysis of 32 startup post-mortemshttp://swombat.com/2011/2/3/analysis-of-32-startup-post-mortems Instead of the original piece, this link points to Swombat...Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-01-open-source-game-clones/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-06-01-open-source-game-clones/Open Source Game Cloneshttp://osgameclones.com/ For when you just REALLLY need to play Heroes of Might & Magic 2. Which I frequently do.Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-31-gocomicscomics-com-merger-picks-wrong-domain-name/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-31-gocomicscomics-com-merger-picks-wrong-domain-name/GoComics/Comics.com Merger picks wrong domain namehttp://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134315 To be filed under "weird and unexplainable domain ...Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-17-fly-like-youre-rich-with-social-flights-and-private-planes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-17-fly-like-youre-rich-with-social-flights-and-private-planes/Fly Like You're Rich With Social Flights And Private Planeshttp://www.fastcompany.com/1753756/social-flights-puts-private-flying-within-reach-of-the-everyday...Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-16-the-next-layer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-16-the-next-layer/Since I've started programming on my own I've run in to all kinds of tools and services that I had no idea existed. Things like Heroku and Recurly and Sendgr...Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-15-social-medias-secret-weapon-email/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-15-social-medias-secret-weapon-email/Social Media's Secret Weapon - Emailhttp://www.avc.com/avc/2011/05/social-medias-secret-weapon-email.html Fred Wilson: I remember four or five years ago, peo...Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-12-active-admin-the-administration-framework-for-ruby-on-rails/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-12-active-admin-the-administration-framework-for-ruby-on-rails/Active Admin | The administration framework for Ruby on Railshttp://activeadmin.info/ For those Ruby on Rails programmers out there, at first glance this loo...Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-12-google-v-facebook-following-the-money/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-12-google-v-facebook-following-the-money/Google v. Facebook: Following the Moneyhttp://mashable.com/2011/05/12/facebook-google-revenue/14231Facebook-Versus-Google-Following-the-Money Also, given Goo...Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-12-nordstrom-testing-ipods-other-devices-for-checkout/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-12-nordstrom-testing-ipods-other-devices-for-checkout/Nordstrom testing iPods, other devices for checkouthttp://www.geekwire.com/2011/nordstrom-testing-ipods-devices-mobile-checkout-stores A while back I'm not s...Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-10-giste28099s-founder-how-i-built-and-sold-my-company-to-rim/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-10-giste28099s-founder-how-i-built-and-sold-my-company-to-rim/Gist’s Founder: How I Built And Sold My Company To RIMhttp://mixergy.com/ta-mccann-gist-interview/ I'll be honest - I haven't watched this yet, but the tit...Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-06-seattle-and-startups/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-06-seattle-and-startups/If you went to the Seattle 2.0 Awardshttp://www.seattle20.com/awards/ last night you got the live version of Mark Suster's great Techcrunch posthttp://techcr...Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-04-jason-fried-on-hiring-an-assistant/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-04-jason-fried-on-hiring-an-assistant/Jason Fried on hiring an assistanthttp://www.inc.com/magazine/20110501/jason-fried-how-to-hire-an-assistant.html As usual, 37Signals took a different approac...Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-02-facebooks-guidelines-to-law-enforcement/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-02-facebooks-guidelines-to-law-enforcement/Facebook's guidelines to law enforcementhttp://info.publicintelligence.net/Facebook2010.pdf This confidential document describes Facebook's policies for law ...Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-02-uh-oh-now-im-the-guy-who-liveblogged-the-osama-raid-without-knowing-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-05-02-uh-oh-now-im-the-guy-who-liveblogged-the-osama-raid-without-knowing-it/Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing ithttp://tweetlibrary.com/damon/osamaraidlivetweets Fascinating.Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-29-how-like-com-shut-down-a-competitor/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-29-how-like-com-shut-down-a-competitor/How Like.com Shut Down A Competitor–And Broke Up Its Funding Roundhttp://blogs.forbes.com/tomiogeron/2011/04/28/how-like-com-shut-down-a-competitor-and-bro...Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-28-a-vc-finding-and-buying-a-domain-name/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-28-a-vc-finding-and-buying-a-domain-name/A VC: Finding And Buying A Domain Namehttp://www.avc.com/avc/2011/04/finding-and-buying-a-domain-name.html I've felt for a while that domain names are actual...Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-27-visa-backs-jack-dorseye28099s-square-digits-wsj/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-27-visa-backs-jack-dorseye28099s-square-digits-wsj/Visa Backs Jack Dorsey’s Squarehttp://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/27/visa-backs-jack-dorseys-square/ Square, the San Francisco start-up that lets anyone a...Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-27-youtube-founders-acquire-delicious/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-04-27-youtube-founders-acquire-delicious/YouTube Founders Acquire Delicioushttp://blog.delicious.com/ Today, we’re pleased to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, ...Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-02-16-potluk/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2011-02-16-potluk/Potlukhttp://potluks.com/ My Ruby on Rails side project. It's kept me busy for a few months, and is a lot of fun so far. It is a link sharing app designed to...Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-12-02-the-phrase-youre-looking-for-is-embrace-and-extend/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-12-02-the-phrase-youre-looking-for-is-embrace-and-extend/The phrase you're looking for is "embrace and extend"http://mashable.com/2010/12/02/gowalla-3-foursquare/ First, Gowalla now lets you broadcast your checkins...Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-28-the-datapad/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-28-the-datapad/Like a lot of geeks, I've read a lot of sci-fi over the course of my lifetime, and one of the things I'm starting to get really excited about is that the wor...Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-17-google-adds-mobile-editing-voice-input-for-google-docs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-17-google-adds-mobile-editing-voice-input-for-google-docs/Google adds mobile editing, voice input for Google Docshttp://techflash.com/seattle/2010/11/google-adds-mobile-editing-voice.html Google this morning announc...Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-11-i-am-officially-requesting-pat-downs-instead-of-body-scanner-at-airports/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-11-i-am-officially-requesting-pat-downs-instead-of-body-scanner-at-airports/I am officially requesting pat-downs instead of body scanner at airportshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackscatterX-rayHealtheffects This is from Wikipedia, on...Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-11-xbox-live-is-the-new-cable/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-11-xbox-live-is-the-new-cable/Xbox Live is the new cablehttp://sxsw.com/node/5864 This from the announcement about Felicia Day keynoting at SXSW 2011: In a ground-breaking deal, "The Guil...Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-10-microsoft-google-and-brain-drain/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-10-microsoft-google-and-brain-drain/Microsoft, Google, and Brain Drainhttp://blog.calbucci.com/2010/11/googles-10-raise-is-sign-good-times-are.html I always thought that Google was a lot like M...Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-09-the-future-of-social-networks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-09-the-future-of-social-networks/I've been following the question What is lacking in Social Networking now?http://www.quora.com/Social-Networks/What-is-lacking-in-social-networking-now on Qu...Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-04-sound-symbolism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-04-sound-symbolism/Sound Symbolismhttp://lexiconblog.com/2010/10/19/26-reasons-brands-work%e2%80%a6or-sometimes-don%e2%80%99t/ That's where sound symbolism can come to the resc...Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-04-survey-about-foursquare-use-conducted-via-landlines/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-04-survey-about-foursquare-use-conducted-via-landlines/Survey about foursquare use conducted via...landlines?http://techflash.com/seattle/2010/11/everyone-is-using-foursquare-and.html The Pew Internet Project dis...Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-03-gm-e2809crobonaut-2e280b3-headed-for-the-international-space-station/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-11-03-gm-e2809crobonaut-2e280b3-headed-for-the-international-space-station/GM "Robonaut 2" Headed for the International Space Stationhttp://tweet-house.com/2010/gm-robonaut-2-headed-for-the-international-space-station/ During one of...Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-21-why-people-go-to-events/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-21-why-people-go-to-events/I think people go to events for several reasons. But the biggest reason people go to events is to be with the other people at the event. When you create an e...Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-18-hard-news-pays-publishers-more-than-chasing-search-trends-report-says/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-18-hard-news-pays-publishers-more-than-chasing-search-trends-report-says/Hard News Pays Publishers More Than Chasing Search Trends, Report Sayshttp://searchengineland.com/hard-news-pays-more-than-chasing-search-trends-53103 Perfec...Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-14-starbucks-lets-people-buy-a-friend-coffee-on-facebook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-14-starbucks-lets-people-buy-a-friend-coffee-on-facebook/Starbucks lets people buy a friend coffee on Facebookhttp://techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/starbucksletspeoplebuyafriendcoffeeonfacebook.html Under a new Give...Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-12-pinterest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-12-pinterest/Pinteresthttp://pinterest.com/enid/want-wear/ This is interesting. "Pin" things that are cool. Kind of like product bookmarking.Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-11-social-design/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-11-social-design/Social Designhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704127904575544302659920236.html "It's so easy to go try and find an algorithmic solution to a pro...Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-11-windows-phone-7/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-11-windows-phone-7/Windows Phone 7http://techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/windowsphonedevicesdetails.html In the U.S., a total of five Windows Phone devices will be available in t...Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-08-the-chokehold-of-calendars/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-08-the-chokehold-of-calendars/The Chokehold of Calendarshttp://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/10/thechokeholdofcalendars.php Let’s start with the premise that you have a 40 hour week. If yo...Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-07-cinch/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-07-cinch/Cinchhttp://www.cinchcast.com/ Interesting "micro-podcasting" tool from BlogTalk Radio. I just downloaded the iPhone app, maybe I'll actually find a use for ...Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-05-new-service-adoption/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-10-05-new-service-adoption/Getting people to add a new personal online service to the list of things they already use is one of the hardest things to do. If I'm already on Twitter, why...Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-29-paul-allen-paulgallen-on-twitter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-29-paul-allen-paulgallen-on-twitter/Paul Allen paulgallen on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/!/paulgallen Microsoft co-founder and notorious recluse joins Twitter.Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-29-science-fiction-future/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-29-science-fiction-future/How many inventions are predicted by science fiction? Three of my favorites are: Sliding doors every sci-fi movie Mp3 players star trek, notably iPhones typi...Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-29-us-military-spending-and-entitlements/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-29-us-military-spending-and-entitlements/Steve Broback just wrote an interesting posthttp://stevebroback.com/2010/the-fdrjohnson-strategy-a-legacy-of-debt/ about the US budget, and why we're in a re...Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-27-blogging-the-subway/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-27-blogging-the-subway/I've always wanted to write a blog post on a subway. I don't know why, maybe because it's one of those things that you just can't do in Seattle. It also seem...Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-27-easy-business-finance-software-simplified-small-business-accounting-and-cashflow-planning-indinero-com/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-27-easy-business-finance-software-simplified-small-business-accounting-and-cashflow-planning-indinero-com/inDinero.comhttps://indinero.com/ It's like Mint.com for business. Kind of an obvious opportunity.Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-23-techflash-on-twinfluence/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-23-techflash-on-twinfluence/TechFlash on Twinfluencehttp://techflash.com/seattle/2010/09/seattleatopsocialcitybutlackingintwitterusage.html Seattle ranked 20th in the Twitter category, ...Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-22-relativity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-22-relativity/Relativityhttp://bobulate.com/post/1167329923/half-time This is awesome. Click through for the full treatment. In other words, if time is a series of consecu...Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-15-i-totally-disagree-kindle-vs-ipad/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-15-i-totally-disagree-kindle-vs-ipad/I Totally Disagree: Kindle vs. iPadhttp://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/ipad-blows-kindle-out-of-water-but.html The Bottom Line: Since I got my iPad, I ...Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-15-on-links-and-distractions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-15-on-links-and-distractions/On links and distractionshttp://minimalmac.com/post/1126901994/medieval-multitasking-did-we-ever-focus-culture In contrast, the internet is vast and seemingl...Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-14-youtube-in-my-car/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-14-youtube-in-my-car/I live in Seattle and work in Redmond I'm the one guy who works in Redmond, but not for Microsoft, which means that I spend about an hour and a half in my ca...Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-10-the-design-of-serendipity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-10-the-design-of-serendipity/The design of serendipityhttp://bobulate.com/post/1097690674/the-design-of-serendipity-is-not-by-chance There are, however, variations at play all the time. ...Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-10-what-is-the-most-useful-shortest-and-most-generally-applicable-piece-of-wisdom-you-know/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-10-what-is-the-most-useful-shortest-and-most-generally-applicable-piece-of-wisdom-you-know/What is the most useful, shortest, and most generally applicable piece of wisdom you know?http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-useful-shortest-and-most-gene...Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-09-i-get-to-watch-the-space-shuttle-launch/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-09-i-get-to-watch-the-space-shuttle-launch/I get to watch the space shuttle launchhttp://www.nasa.gov/connect/tweetup/index.html 0.31.10 - NASA will host a two-day Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter follo...Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-09-the-leaner-blog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-09-the-leaner-blog/The Leaner Bloghttp://leaners.tumblr.com/ Photos of people who are leaning for no good reason. God bless the internet for giving us pointless awesomeness lik...Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-08-googles-core-competency/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-08-googles-core-competency/Google's Core Competencyhttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-faster-than-speed-of-type.html The user benefits of Google Instant are many—but t...Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-07-are-human-beings-still-evolving/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-07-are-human-beings-still-evolving/Are human beings still evolving?http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-human-beings-still-ev First of all, humans haven't really changed the ru...Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-07-hung-far-low/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-07-hung-far-low/Hung Far Lowhttp://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2010/09/return-of-the-hung-far-low-sign.html?utmsource=feedburner&utmmedium=feed&utmcampaign=F...Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-07-she-may-be-everyones-pal/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-07-she-may-be-everyones-pal/"She may be everyone's pal"http://www.jacobtyler.com/creative-blog/2010/09/02/weve-come-a-long-way-in-advertising/ my partner Charlie forwarded me an email o...Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-03-ignite-seattle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-03-ignite-seattle/Ignite Seattle!http://www.igniteseattle.com/ We’re super-excited to present our line up for our next event, held once again at the King Cat Theatre on Sept...Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-02-finding-women-speakers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-02-finding-women-speakers/Aliza Sherman in an engaging rejoinderhttp://babyfruit.typepad.com/mediagirl/2010/09/too-few-women-in-tech-stop-blaming-the-men.html to Arrington's Women in ...Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-01-startupday-2010/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-09-01-startupday-2010/StartupDay 2010http://www.seattle20.com/startupday/ StartupDay 2010 is the conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup....Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-30-paul-allens-twitter-patent/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-30-paul-allens-twitter-patent/Paul Allen's Twitter Patenthttp://techflash.com/seattle/2010/08/alsoinallenspatentpileideassimilartotwitterfoursquare.html A patent application submitted by ...Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-28-the-future-of-gnomedex/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-28-the-future-of-gnomedex/The Future of Gnomedexhttp://chris.pirillo.com/the-future-of-gnomedex/ Chris Pirillo, on why he's leaving Gnomedex behind: Without a dedicated team of rock s...Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-27-bringing-cool-people-together/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-27-bringing-cool-people-together/I'm planning to attend Seattle Startup Drinkshttp://seattle.startupdrinks.com tonight. It's been a while since I've had the time to get myself out to many of...Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-25-scared-of-the-phone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-25-scared-of-the-phone/When I first started working, at the end of college and into my first year of "real world" employment, I was scared of the phone. Email and Instant Messaging...Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-24-freedom-is-for-other-people-too/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-08-24-freedom-is-for-other-people-too/Freedom is for other people toohttp://asalesguy.com/2010/08/20/dont-confuse-like-with-rights/ Take LIKE out of the freedom discussion and it makes things jus...Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-26-touching-strangers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-26-touching-strangers/Touching Strangershttp://www.renaldi.com/photographs/touching/index.html I meet two or more people on the street who are strangers to each other, and to me. ...Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-14-ydnar-less-365/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-14-ydnar-less-365/ydnar: Less 365http://ydnar.com/2010/07/less-365.html Starting July 1, and every day for a year, I will get rid of something. I will donate, discard, re-gift...Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-12-app-inventor-for-android/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-12-app-inventor-for-android/App Inventor for Androidhttp://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming...Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-07-no-appletalk-printing-in-mac-os-x-v10-6/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-07-no-appletalk-printing-in-mac-os-x-v10-6/No AppleTalk printing in Mac OS X v10.6http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3771 AppleTalk is a protocol that is not supported in Mac OS X v10.6. Many network prin...Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-06-wake-n-bacon-alarm-clock/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-06-wake-n-bacon-alarm-clock/Wake N' Bacon Alarm Clockhttp://www.seriouseats.com/2008/07/wake-n-bacon-alarm-clock-the-best-sleepending.html You put a slice of frozen bacon in the clock's...Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-02-the-att-network/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-07-02-the-att-network/I have a theory about the AT&T network, which goes like this: the network doesn't suck that bad, my iPhone sucks at phone calls. Aside from one rogue article...Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-27-iphone-4-bumper/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-27-iphone-4-bumper/iPhone 4 "Bumper"http://www.marco.org/731997535 So true: The $29 “Bumper” is hilarious. I think Apple is really in the iPhone-case business, and the iPho...Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-24-draft-for-ipad/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-24-draft-for-ipad/Draft for iPadhttp://37signals.com/svn/posts/2420-launch-draft-for-ipad Draft, our first app for the iPad, is now available in the App Store. Draft is a stra...Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-21-too-incompetent-to-know/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-21-too-incompetent-to-know/Too incompetent to knowhttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?hp It became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect — our in...Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-17-microsofts-xbox-360-bribery-makes-journalists-squirm/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-17-microsofts-xbox-360-bribery-makes-journalists-squirm/Microsoft's Xbox 360 'bribery' makes journalists squirmhttp://techflash.com/seattle/2010/06/microsoftse3xboxbriberymakesjournalismethicistssquirm.html "Yes, ...Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-15-portal-2-official-site/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-15-portal-2-official-site/Portal 2 Official Sitehttp://www.thinkwithportals.com/ I am loving the new sense of design that seems to have taken over at Valve Software. The new revamp of...Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-14-placebook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-14-placebook/PlaceBookhttp://scobleizer.com/2010/06/13/exclusive-first-look-at-location-based-service-placebook/ According to Scoble: What are they doing? They will give ...Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-09-hitwise-facebook-traffic-surpasses-google/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-09-hitwise-facebook-traffic-surpasses-google/Hitwise: Facebook traffic surpasses Googlehttp://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2010/03/facebookreachestoprankingi.html Facebook reached an important ...Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-09-how-to-remove-addresses-from-mail-app-autocomplete/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-09-how-to-remove-addresses-from-mail-app-autocomplete/How to remove addresses from Mail.app autocompletehttp://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-17995.html In Mail.app, under the "Window" menu, select: ...Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-09-icoaster-html-5-iphone-app/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-09-icoaster-html-5-iphone-app/iCoaster - HTML 5 iPhone apphttp://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jun-04.html I felt that I had to go with HTML 5 as I did not want to write the app once for ...Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-03-boatloads-of-bloody-minded-pacifists/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-03-boatloads-of-bloody-minded-pacifists/Boatloads of bloody-minded pacifistshttp://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/boatloads-of-bloody-minded-pacifists/story-e6frezz0-1225874166305 The Mavi ...Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-02-comcast-coo-its-not-about-the-consumer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-02-comcast-coo-its-not-about-the-consumer/Comcast COO: It's not about the consumerhttp://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-comcast-coo-steve-burke-on-google-apple/4E91D565-9BD2-4A46-ADD2-20DC36FDBFAE/ Th...Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-02-steve-jobs-is-a-one-gesture-guy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-02-steve-jobs-is-a-one-gesture-guy/Image: Jobs GesturesWed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-01-microsoft-is-not-a-consumer-company/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-06-01-microsoft-is-not-a-consumer-company/Microsoft is not a consumer companyhttp://techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/microsoftplansseattle-areastorebringinghomeitsretailbattlewithapple.html Microsoft ma...Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-31-i-dont-use-the-google-searchbox-in-firefox/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-31-i-dont-use-the-google-searchbox-in-firefox/Or any other browser with a built in searchbox. I always type in "google.com" to the address bar and search from Google's own home page. And the reason I go ...Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-27-choose-your-inboxes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-27-choose-your-inboxes/Choose your inboxeshttp://minimalmac.com/post/637559638/interview-with-diego-petrucci-of-il-mac-minimalista Great advice on dealing with incoming messages fr...Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-27-less-of-a-commitment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-27-less-of-a-commitment/Less of a commitmenthttp://www.avc.com/avc/2010/05/ive-changed-my-mind-about-the-ipad.html The iPad makes using a computer less of a commitment and that has ...Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-26-half-life-2-cloud-savegames/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-26-half-life-2-cloud-savegames/Half-Life 2 Cloud Savegameshttp://store.steampowered.com/news/3872/ Valve just announced that the Half-Life 2 series is available today on the Mac. Even bett...Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-25-monica-moves-to-intersect/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-25-monica-moves-to-intersect/Monica moves to Intersecthttp://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/207331.asp In June I'll begin a new job with a startup called Intersecthttp://intersec...Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-25-super-mario-galaxy-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-25-super-mario-galaxy-2/Super Mario Galaxy 2http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/05/mario-galaxy-2-review-embargo-friday.ars Nintendo creates another winner. A moderately tale...Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-25-why-bother/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-25-why-bother/Why bother?http://techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/popcapbolstersboard.html The Seattle maker of hit games such as Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies has long bee...Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-23-my-eyeballs-hurt/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-23-my-eyeballs-hurt/Look at the spacing between "T" and "ransition." And the papyrus. Welcome to Austin. fontfail !http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonp107/OaT...Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-19-greyson-chance-could-be-a-fake/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-19-greyson-chance-could-be-a-fake/Greyson Chance could be a "fake"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0518/Greyson-Chance-What-is-real-in-an-age-of-media-manipulation Indeed, London-bas...Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-13-awesome-marlboro-logo-trick/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-13-awesome-marlboro-logo-trick/Awesome Marlboro Logo Trickhttp://www.graphicology.com/blog/2010/4/28/292-the-sneakiest-design-ever.htmlThu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-13-scvngr/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-13-scvngr/Scvngrhttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/a-new-entry-into-the-world-of-location-based-games/?ref=technology Scvngr hopes some of its mobile features â€...Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-13-why-foursquare-wont-kill-twitter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-13-why-foursquare-wont-kill-twitter/As I was just checking in on Foursquare at la cucina del puerco good Mexican in Bellevue I realized why Twitter will never kil Foursquare: because 4sq is act...Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-12-portal-is-free-as-in-beer-until-may-24/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-12-portal-is-free-as-in-beer-until-may-24/Portal is free as in beer until May 24http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/ Portal used to cost money. Until May 24th, it's free. End of story. Well, tec...Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-12-steam-on-mac/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-12-steam-on-mac/Hell yes. Image: Picture 1.pngWed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-even-relationships-are-selfish-apparently/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-even-relationships-are-selfish-apparently/Even relationships are selfish apparentlyhttp://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/tracking-the-science-of-commitment/?src=me&ref=general But it may not be fe...Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-least-harmful-taxes-property-and-consumption/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-least-harmful-taxes-property-and-consumption/Least harmful taxes: property and consumptionhttp://www.oecd.org/LongAbstract/0,3425,en264934597409587971196841137443,00.html Corporate taxes are found to be...Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-new-counter-strike-source-beta-on-steam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-new-counter-strike-source-beta-on-steam/New Counter-Strike: Source Beta on Steamhttp://store.steampowered.com/app/260/ Available immediately, Valve has launched an extensive update to Counter-Strik...Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-organization-kids/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-organization-kids/"Organization Kids"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/opinion/11brooks.html?hp I have to confess my first impression of Kagan is a lot like my first impressio...Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-twitter-tools-bit-ly-links/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-11-twitter-tools-bit-ly-links/Twitter Tools: bit.ly Linkshttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools-bitly-links/ If you want Twitter Toolshttp://alexking.org/projects/wordpress to ...Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-facebook-shirt/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-facebook-shirt/!facebook shirthttp://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jasonp107/eIJ43EyorjyqCI5a3qrDpbcGAVrmT2RIIh2NBFD8O5JjKUEdzGkHgRiIPcu3/facebooklike.png Heh.Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-paparazzi-attack/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-paparazzi-attack/Paparazzi Attack!http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115607285139564 Hooray for Seattle shenanigans: On May 22nd, we're going to be staging a fake sighting...Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-rise-of-zynga-pressures-videogame-incumbents/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-rise-of-zynga-pressures-videogame-incumbents/Rise of Zynga Pressures Videogame Incumbentshttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704173804575233390919534652.html?mod=WSJTechLEADTop Faced with shri...Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-zuckerberg-meets-with-foursquare-in-new-york/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-10-zuckerberg-meets-with-foursquare-in-new-york/Zuckerberg Meets With Foursquare In New Yorkhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/10/businessinsider-zuckerberg-meets-with-foursquare-in-n...Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-07-assisted-serendipity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-07-assisted-serendipity/Assisted Serendipityhttp://www.assistedserendipity.com/ Foursquare app that alerts you when the male/female ratio at nearby bars tips in your favor.Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-06-back-to-petroleum/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-06-back-to-petroleum/Back to Petroleumhttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/03/backtopetroleum?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full BP is about to live a PR nightmare: Th...Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-06-good-hearing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-06-good-hearing/Good hearinghttp://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=3997702&mode=print People who live on houseboats near the Aurora Bridge can recognize the sound of...Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-05-48-hour-magazine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-05-48-hour-magazine/48 Hour Magazinehttp://www.48hrmag.com/ Here's how it works: Issue Zero begins May 7th. We'll unveil a theme and you'll have 24 hours to produce and submit y...Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-05-google-chrome-speed-tests/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-05-google-chrome-speed-tests/Google Chrome Speed Testshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0&feature=playerembedded This is awesome:Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-05-prints-photographs-online-catalog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-05-05-prints-photographs-online-catalog/Prints & Photographs Online Cataloghttp://www.loc.gov/pictures/ The Library of Congress is a treasure trove of cool historical images. You could get lost in ...Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-30-roger-ebert-why-i-hate-3-d-movies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-30-roger-ebert-why-i-hate-3-d-movies/Roger Ebert: Why I Hate 3-D Movieshttp://www.newsweek.com/id/237110/ Finally, someone more credible than me AGREES with me that 3D movies are an inferior for...Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-29-seths-blog-the-coming-melt-down-in-higher-education-as-seen-by-a-marketer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-29-seths-blog-the-coming-melt-down-in-higher-education-as-seen-by-a-marketer/The coming melt-down in higher educationhttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/sethsblog/2010/04/the-coming-meltdown-in-higher-education-as-seen-by-a-marketer.html Bac...Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-29-thoughts-on-flash/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-29-thoughts-on-flash/Thoughts on Flashhttp://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Steve Jobs trashes Flash and Adobe: The third party may not adopt enhancements from one plat...Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-28-broadband-access-in-the-united-states-is-even-worse-than-you-think/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-28-broadband-access-in-the-united-states-is-even-worse-than-you-think/Broadband access in the United States is even worse than you thinkhttp://www.slate.com/id/2252141/pagenum/all/p2 We'd never buy a package of "up to a dozen e...Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-27-daring-fireball-linked-list-playing-coy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-27-daring-fireball-linked-list-playing-coy/Daring Fireball Linked List: Playing Coyhttp://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/27/eff Actually, it’s very apparent, and quite simple. They’re looking a...Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-27-ipad-whos-idea-was-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-27-ipad-whos-idea-was-it/This from iCon, the totally unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs written in 2006, about Steve's leadership of the original Macintosh team: "we all had a joke...Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-26-itstrending-com-a-real-time-feed-of-the-most-shared-content-on-facebook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-26-itstrending-com-a-real-time-feed-of-the-most-shared-content-on-facebook/ItsTrending.comhttp://www.itstrending.com/ A real time feed of the most shared content on FacebookMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-23-how-to-proper-gmail-imap-for-iphone-apple-mail-derek-punsalan-e28093-5thirtyone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-23-how-to-proper-gmail-imap-for-iphone-apple-mail-derek-punsalan-e28093-5thirtyone/The latest news on the street is that Google is slowly rolling out a much anticipated feature – IMAP supporthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InternetMessageAcc...Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-07-feds-say-bring-on-the-comments/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-07-feds-say-bring-on-the-comments/"Basically, the OMB has issued a memo which waives cumbersome paperwork requirements for government communications that solicit or enable responses or feedba...Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-05-ipad-magazine-art-direction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-05-ipad-magazine-art-direction/via vimeo.comhttp://vimeo.com/10676843 Love the Popular Science App third in the video Posted via webhttp://posterous.com from Jason Preston's posteroushttp:...Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-05-no-conflict-no-interest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-05-no-conflict-no-interest/No Conflict No Interesthttp://www.avc.com/avc/2010/04/no-conflict-no-interest.html Interest implies knowledge and understanding and leads to good decisions i...Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-04-ipad-first-impressions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-04-04-ipad-first-impressions/A few quick thoughts about the iPad unimaginatively titled before I go to sleep: - It feels like the future. The screen is crazy crisp and gorgeous, the iPad...Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-31-personal-happiness/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-31-personal-happiness/Personal happinesshttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/opinion/30brooks.html If you have a successful marriage, it doesn’t matter how many professional setbac...Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-29-binder-clips-apparently-work-great-as-cable-organizers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-29-binder-clips-apparently-work-great-as-cable-organizers/Binder clips apparently work great as cable organizershttp://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/22/binder-clips-apparently-work-great-as-cable-organizers/ Brilliant,...Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-22-33-per-month/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-22-33-per-month/$33 per monthhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21Benkler.html IMAGINE that for $33 a month you could buy Internet service twice as fast as what you g...Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-19-in-defense-of-deficits/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-19-in-defense-of-deficits/In Defense of Deficitshttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/galbraith/single For ordinary people, public budget deficits, despite their bad reputation, are m...Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-14-rt-editer-moniguzman-is-essentially-dictating/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-14-rt-editer-moniguzman-is-essentially-dictating/http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23processjournalismRT @Editer: @Moniguzman is essentially dictating... Editer: .@Moniguzman is essentially dictating the ...Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-06-how-facebook-was-founded/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-06-how-facebook-was-founded/How Facebook Was Foundedhttp://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3 New information uncovered by Silicon Alley Insider suggests that some ...Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-05-non-games/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-05-non-games/Non-gameshttp://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&artaid=123774comments "Heavy Rain" is one of the increasingly popular "non-games" lik...Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-04-report-lists-facebooks-value-at-11-5-billion/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-04-report-lists-facebooks-value-at-11-5-billion/Report lists Facebook's value at $11.5 billionhttp://mashable.com/2010/03/04/facebook-twitter-valuations/ SharesPost, however, is a company that lets owners ...Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-04-valve-games-coming-soon-to-a-mac-near-you-software-interrupted-cnet-news/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-04-valve-games-coming-soon-to-a-mac-near-you-software-interrupted-cnet-news/Doug Lombardi, Valvehttp://valvesoftware.com's VP of developer marketing, confirmed to MacNewsNetworkhttp://www.macnn.com/articles/10/03/03/teaser.hints.at.p...Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-03-the-best-first-tweet-ever/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-03-the-best-first-tweet-ever/The best first tweet everhttp://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/9596834783 Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebod...Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-02-mitch-daniels-hoosiers-and-health-savings-accounts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-02-mitch-daniels-hoosiers-and-health-savings-accounts/Mitch Daniels: Hoosiers and Health Savings Accountsmhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575091600470293066.html?mod=WSJhpmostpopemailed Ov...Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-01-interview-adam-puhl-god-of-war-iiis-combat-designer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-01-interview-adam-puhl-god-of-war-iiis-combat-designer/Interview: Adam Puhl, God of War III's combat designerhttp://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/god-of-war-3-lead-combat-designer-adam-puhl-interview/continued Well,...Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-01-iphonee28099s-missing-feed-reader-e28093-shawn-blanc/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-01-iphonee28099s-missing-feed-reader-e28093-shawn-blanc/iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader – Shawn Blanchttp://shawnblanc.net/2010/03/iphone-missing-feed-reader/ Shawn Blanc's muchhttp://daringfireball.net/linked/20...Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-01-world-of-warcraft-account-management/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-03-01-world-of-warcraft-account-management/Just, seriously, look at the address this spam is being sent to. "undeadsmurf" REALLY?? - J Begin forwarded message: From: "wowaccountadmin@blizzard.commailt...Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-26-more-patent-nonsense/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-26-more-patent-nonsense/More Patent Nonsensehttp://www.avc.com/avc/2010/02/more-patent-nonsense.html Fred Wilson talks about the totally ridiculous nature of software patents in gen...Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-26-the-art-of-sushi/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-26-the-art-of-sushi/I have tried making sushi at home and it is beyond my power. These guys at wasabi, however, are masters. !http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/ja...Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-25-it-takes-more-than-an-author-and-a-customer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-25-it-takes-more-than-an-author-and-a-customer/It takes more than an author and a customerhttp://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/25/handing-you-off-to-charlie-stross-today/ John Scalzi, with usual aplomb, on ...Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-24-mediapost-on-twitters-monetization/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-24-mediapost-on-twitters-monetization/MediaPost on Twitter's monetizationhttp://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&artaid=123128 But the two roads to revenue signified by the...Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-24-the-6-republican-health-care-ideas-vs-my-one/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-24-the-6-republican-health-care-ideas-vs-my-one/The 6 Republican Health Care Ideas vs My Onehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703510204575085970815851804.html?mod=WSJhppLEFTTopStories Republica...Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-23-ignite-seattle-9-speakers-announced/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-23-ignite-seattle-9-speakers-announced/Ignite Seattle 9 Speakers Announcedhttp://www.igniteseattle.com/2010/02/ignite-seattle-9-speakers/ I'm super excited to be part of such an awesome speaker li...Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-21-phone-switching/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-21-phone-switching/it's a little ironic that I'm writing this post on my iPhone; I think I'm in the market for a blackberry. I've been using an iPhone for a little over two yea...Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-20-tech-makeovers-are-hard/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-20-tech-makeovers-are-hard/Tech makeovers are hardhttp://moniguzman.posterous.com/tech-makeovers-are-hard "Tech makeovers" may be a bit of work, but they sure can be a lot of fun. I lo...Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-04-for-scots-a-scourge-unleashed-by-a-bottle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-04-for-scots-a-scourge-unleashed-by-a-bottle/For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/world/europe/04scotland.html?hp “It goes straight to your head,” he said, “...Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-03-even-the-esrb-is-disgusted-with-dead-or-alive-paradise/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-03-even-the-esrb-is-disgusted-with-dead-or-alive-paradise/Even the ESRB is disgusted with Dead or Alive Paradisehttp://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/03/even-the-esrb-is-disgusted-with-dead-or-alive-paradise/ but the game ...Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-03-online-multiplayer-assassins-creed-ii-coming-to-the-iphone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-03-online-multiplayer-assassins-creed-ii-coming-to-the-iphone/Online Multiplayer Assassin's Creed II Coming To The iPhonehttp://kotaku.com/5463391/online-multiplayer-assassins-creed-ii-coming-to-the-iphone Coming soon t...Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-02-lord-of-ultima/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-02-lord-of-ultima/Lord of Ultimahttps://www.lordofultima.com/en All you need to play is a browser that supports HTML5. This Looks Awesome.Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-02-sex-box/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-02-sex-box/"Sex Box"http://www.kdvr.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=8dd7f487-7d6e-457b-82db-a95e5673e301&src=front From Family Guy joke to sensationalized journalism. As muc...Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-furbo-org-c2b7-ipad-liberation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-furbo-org-c2b7-ipad-liberation/furbo.org · iPad liberationhttp://furbo.org/2010/01/29/ipad-liberation/ An important observation that I’ve made with the iPhone is that it’s perfect for...Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-never-dupe-your-readers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-never-dupe-your-readers/Never Dupe Your Readers | Mike Industrieshttp://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2010/01/never-dupe-your-readers Let me see if I can make this as clear as...Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-seths-blog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-seths-blog/Modern Procrastinationhttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/sethsblog/2010/02/modern-procrastination.html I'd like to posit that for idea workers, misusing Twitter, F...Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-silvern-castle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-02-01-silvern-castle/Silvern Castlehttp://webpages.milwpc.com/finkjc/silverncastle/ ilvern Castle is a fantasy role-playing game RPG for the Apple II in the spirit of the classic...Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-01-18-36-of-the-best-iphone-games/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-01-18-36-of-the-best-iphone-games/36 of the best iPhone Gameshttp://www.gamepro.com/article/features/212835/36-of-the-best-iphone-games/ I need to go through this list later and spend some iT...Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-01-13-five-great-games-for-netbooks-build-your-own-dojo/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-01-13-five-great-games-for-netbooks-build-your-own-dojo/Five Great Games for Netbookshttp://www.l33tsauce.com/Jasonp107/five-great-games-for-netbooks I love the way our L33tsauce formatting works when it works. An...Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-01-12-an-iphone-lovere28099s-take-on-the-nexus-one/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2010-01-12-an-iphone-lovere28099s-take-on-the-nexus-one/An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Nexus Onehttp://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/iphone-versus-nexus-one/ Maybe the hardest thing or Apple’s greatest strength...Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-12-28-hawaii-paradise/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-12-28-hawaii-paradise/Image removed — original hosted on WordPresshttp://www.jason-preston.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/l1600120066024BF2-5A65-4712-AF44-D377F4C4B13B.jpegMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-12-20-avatar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-12-20-avatar/no spoilers Without question, Avatarhttp://www.avatarmovie.com/ is the best movie I've seen this year. Despite the fact that they've got Papyrushttp://www.bl...Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-23-how-to-play-werewolf/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-23-how-to-play-werewolf/How to Play Werewolfhttp://www.l33tsauce.com/Jasonp107/werewolf-a-great-party-game- If you've ever wondered what would be an awesome party game, this is the ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-17-godzillas-exercise-dream-diary/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-17-godzillas-exercise-dream-diary/Godzilla's Exercise & Dream Diaryhttp://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/11/17hahn.html This is pure genius: 11:35 AM: Exercise: Tail thrashing to destroy bayside war...Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-11-revenue-and-runway-e28093-why-every-cent-matters/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-11-revenue-and-runway-e28093-why-every-cent-matters/Revenue and Runway – Why every cent mattershttp://markmaunder.com/2009/revenue-and-runway-why-every-cent-matters/ Mark Maunder with some real numbers on wh...Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-11-surprisingly-good-hot-chocolate/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-11-surprisingly-good-hot-chocolate/Surprisingly good hot chocolatehttp://chowhound.chow.com/topics/3311151920455 McGee has a general "recipe" for foaming milk with out steam. I just tried a ve...Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-10-disgruntled-star-editor-takes-constructive-revenge-torontoist/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-10-disgruntled-star-editor-takes-constructive-revenge-torontoist/Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revengehttp://torontoist.com/2009/11/disgruntledstareditortakesrevenge.php HehTue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-06-iphone-users-sue-gaming-company-for-harvesting-cell-numbers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-06-iphone-users-sue-gaming-company-for-harvesting-cell-numbers/iPhone Users Sue Gaming Company For Harvesting Cell Numbershttp://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&artaid=116920 Gaming developer Stor...Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-03-first-20/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-03-first-20/First & 20http://www.firstand20.com/ A collection of iPhone home screens.Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-a-dogs-eco-footprint-is-the-same-as-a-hummer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-a-dogs-eco-footprint-is-the-same-as-a-hummer/A dog's eco-footprint is the same as a Hummerhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010183212dogcarbon02m.html a New Zealand study that claims a me...Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-focus-booster-the-pomodoro-technique/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-focus-booster-the-pomodoro-technique/Focus boosterhttp://www.focusboosterapp.com/ I'm fascinated by application groupthink. Everyone who reads DaringFireballhttp://daringfireball.net apparently ...Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hellhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/ Another scam: Video Profess...Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-scobleizer-e28094-exploring-the-2010-web/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-11-02-scobleizer-e28094-exploring-the-2010-web/Scobleizer — Exploring the 2010 Webhttp://scobleizer.com/ Again, at first, this seems very democratic and very nice. After all, it’s great to throw a par...Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-30-screen-actors-guild-rejects-video-game-voice-deal/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-30-screen-actors-guild-rejects-video-game-voice-deal/Screen Actors Guild rejects video game voice dealhttp://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/29/screen-actors-guild-rejects-video-game-voice-deal/ The main opposition in ...Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-29-scoble-quits-google-reader/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-29-scoble-quits-google-reader/Scoble quits Google Readerhttp://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-dont-use-google-reader-anymore I quit Google Reader over a year ago, but for an entirely diff...Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-28-this-is-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-28-this-is-it/This Is Ithttp://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/movies/29this.html?hp Manohla Dargis of the NYTimes on Jackson's concert movie: At once a greatest-hits compen...Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-28-whatever/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-28-whatever/The Fox News playhttp://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/10/27/what-obamas-doing-with-fox-news/ Scalzi explains why the Obama administration is not making a mistake ...Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-27-evil-avatar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-27-evil-avatar/Evil Avatarhttp://www.evilavatar.com/ Time for me to get back into the forum thing. I forgot how vibrant this gaming community is.Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-26-pan-am/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-26-pan-am/Pan Amhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB125650482699406669.html I can't decide if this is nuts or awesome: Mr. Toth has built a precise replica of a first-clas...Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-23-mediapost-publications-the-video-game-hype-machine-10232009/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-23-mediapost-publications-the-video-game-hype-machine-10232009/The Video Game Hype Machinehttp://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&artaid=116050 If you recall "Spore"'s promotional campaign, it was ...Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-21-the-technium-why-technology-cant-fulfill/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-21-the-technium-why-technology-cant-fulfill/The Technium: Why Technology Can't Fulfillhttp://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/06/whytechnology.php As usual, a fantastic piece from Kevin Kelly on th...Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-dice-pc-gamers-get-the-shaft-too-often/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-dice-pc-gamers-get-the-shaft-too-often/DICE on why Bad Company 2 gives PC gamers extra featureshttp://gamersnexus.net/component/content/article/47-newsfront1/226-dice-devs-side-with-pcgamers1 Now,...Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-nook-features-ebook-reader-ebook-device-barnesc2a0c2a0noble/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-nook-features-ebook-reader-ebook-device-barnesc2a0c2a0noble/The Barnes & Noble Nookhttp://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/techspecs/ Not just competition. Good competition. I kinda want one, even though I've alre...Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-pay-what-you-want-birthday-sale-results/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-pay-what-you-want-birthday-sale-results/2D Boy: Pay-What-You-Want Birthday Sale Resultshttp://2dboy.com/2009/10/19/birthday-sale-results/ "Steam sales rose 40% relative to the previous week. Our St...Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-stevenf-com-a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-20-stevenf-com-a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update/Why there are two App storeshttp://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/218293148/a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update Steven Frank makes a lot of sense, expla...Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-19-marco-org-in-app-purchase-now-available-for-free-apps/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-19-marco-org-in-app-purchase-now-available-for-free-apps/In-App Purchase on iPhone will be great for gameshttp://www.marco.org/214082853 "For new apps, there’s now little reason to make separate free and paid ver...Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-18-braid/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-18-braid/Braidhttp://braid-game.com/ I've been playing Braid for the past few days, and I have nothing but good things to say about this PC game. The graphics are ado...Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-16-a-list-apart-articles-burnout/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-16-a-list-apart-articles-burnout/Burnouthttp://www.alistapart.com/articles/burnout/ Great article on A List Aparthttp://www.alistapart.com about burnout in life and work. One suggestion for ...Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-16-marsedit-helping-the-personal-publishing-revolution-e28093-shawn-blanc/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-16-marsedit-helping-the-personal-publishing-revolution-e28093-shawn-blanc/MarsEdit: Helping the Personal Publishing Revolutionhttp://shawnblanc.net/2008/01/marsedit-review/ "You may not have thought about the fact that when you wri...Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-16-mediapost-publications-is-world-of-warcraft-a-loyalty-program-10162009/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-10-16-mediapost-publications-is-world-of-warcraft-a-loyalty-program-10162009/Is 'World of Warcraft' A Loyalty Program?http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&artaid=115600 Interesting take on what mechanisms Bli...Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-08-07-health-care-reform-in-2009/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-08-07-health-care-reform-in-2009/As with all economic fiddling, it's important to think about how changes in health legislation will affect people in unintentional ways. I've been following ...Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-06-09-why-would-they-need-that/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-06-09-why-would-they-need-that/I think this question is at the root of many technology product failures. Just because the feature you've built is "good enough" doesn't mean it's going to b...Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-05-07-3d-realms-finally-kicks-the-bucket/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-05-07-3d-realms-finally-kicks-the-bucket/3D Realms finally kicks the buckethttp://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58519 The closure came about as a result of funding issues, our source explained, wit...Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-05-06-pentagon-to-create-cyber-command/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-05-06-pentagon-to-create-cyber-command/Pentagon to create "Cyber Command"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124153427633287573.html Later this month, the Pentagon will create a new military "cyber co...Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-28-presenting-ignite-seattle-429/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-28-presenting-ignite-seattle-429/I'll be at Ignite Seattle on 4/29http://www.igniteseattle.com/2009/04/ignite-seattle-speakers/ Jason Preston @Jasonp107 - Goobye Tolstoy: How to say anything...Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-21-if-your-eyes-were-the-hubble/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-21-if-your-eyes-were-the-hubble/If your eyes were the Hubblehttp://i.gizmodo.com/5211343/this-is-how-the-sky-would-look-if-both-your-eyes-functioned-as-telescopesTue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-20-surprise-isps-overcharge-for-connectivity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-20-surprise-isps-overcharge-for-connectivity/Surprise! ISPs overcharge for connectivityhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/20isp.html Sounds like what we need is more competition, not necessarily...Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-16-oregon-trail-in-the-iphone-app-store-for-499/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-16-oregon-trail-in-the-iphone-app-store-for-499/Oregon Trail in the iPhone App Store for $4.99http://www.gameloft.com/mobile-games/the-oregon-trail/ I remember playing this game on old-school macs in the c...Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-14-early-iphone-rumors/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-14-early-iphone-rumors/Early iPhone rumorshttp://daringfireball.net/2002/08/iphony It's kind of fun to look at early rumors about the iPhone. This from Daring Fireball in 2002: The...Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-14-is-the-government-really-just-e2809cuse2809d/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-14-is-the-government-really-just-e2809cuse2809d/Is the Government Really Just “Us?”http://stevebroback.com/2009/simple-feel-good-reductionism-is-the-government-really-just-us/ Steve Broback on, roughly...Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-11-apples-design-process/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-11-apples-design-process/Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature. Not, Lopp said, "seven in order to make three look good", which seems to be a...Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-11-strict-bandwidth-limits-from-time-warner/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-11-strict-bandwidth-limits-from-time-warner/Strict bandwidth limits from Time Warnerhttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/time-warners-unlimited-bandwidth-plan-150-a-month/ The company introduced a ...Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-06-win-a-free-ticket-for-140-the-twitter-conference/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-06-win-a-free-ticket-for-140-the-twitter-conference/But then we got to thinking that we’re not really all that clever, especially compared to all of you. So we thought it’d be best to throw it open to ever...Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-02-finally-some-sensible-talk-about-aig/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-02-finally-some-sensible-talk-about-aig/Those in Washington who say they represent, or even embody, the public’s anger at bankers should do their constituents a favor by focussing not on whom to ...Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-02-tropicana-rebranding-causes-20-drop-in-sales/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-04-02-tropicana-rebranding-causes-20-drop-in-sales/If you ask me, it's because the original packaging left looks like a quality product, and the new packaging right looks like a generic product. Image: tropic...Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-25-obama-on-investors-and-entrepreneurs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-25-obama-on-investors-and-entrepreneurs/At the same time, the rest of us can't afford to demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit. That drive is what has always fueled our...Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-20-the-american-public-throwing-away-170-billion/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-20-the-american-public-throwing-away-170-billion/Who wants to work at AIG? Seriously. The company is nationally maybe internationally hated. It's 80% owned by the government, you'll be the subject of protes...Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-18-learning-from-history/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-18-learning-from-history/From Seth Godin: Every once in a while, a new technology is introduced online and it becomes the must-have, must-be-talked-about breakthrough. If you've got ...Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-fantastic-photo-of-the-disney-concert-hall/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-fantastic-photo-of-the-disney-concert-hall/Image: gehrydisneytlphttp://wvs.topleftpixel.com/09/03/17/ Bigger version at Daily Dose of Imageryhttp://wvs.topleftpixel.com/09/03/17/.Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-on-the-sci-fi-channels-new-branding/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-on-the-sci-fi-channels-new-branding/From John Scalzi: Apparently one of the motivating factors to change the name from “scifi” to a phase-changing-vowel-filled homonym was to have a name th...Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-recessions-silver-lining-less-seattle-area-traffic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-recessions-silver-lining-less-seattle-area-traffic/I have noticed that I get from Seattle to Redmond a little bit quicker than I used to.Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-the-case-for-paying-out-bonuses-at-aig/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-17-the-case-for-paying-out-bonuses-at-aig/If you think this economy is a mess now, imagine what it would look like if the business community started to worry that the government would start abrogatin...Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-16-going-elemental-in-world-of-warcraft/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-16-going-elemental-in-world-of-warcraft/Image: talentsAfter logging out of World of Warcraft for just shy of two years, I finally upgraded my account with the Burning Crusadehttp://www.worldofwarcr...Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-16-steve-broback-on-drill-drill-drill-philosophy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-16-steve-broback-on-drill-drill-drill-philosophy/Steve Broback debunks the idea that price control is a good argument against oil use: Even a measly 1.1 percent increase in output enabled a price collapse t...Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-16-us-mobile-internet-use-cotinues-growth/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-16-us-mobile-internet-use-cotinues-growth/Fred Wilson shares some comScore numbers on US mobile internet use and US wired internet use: So I'd assume the total monthly US audience for mobile internet...Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-13-the-health-bubble/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-13-the-health-bubble/While the world is paying attention to nuclear threats and terrorism, there's another dangerous trend that only gets media attention once in a blue moon. The...Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-11-no-plugs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-11-no-plugs/I'm at the SDMA Market to the Max conference at Bell Harbor today, and as Steve Broback already noted on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/sbroback/status/1311298060...Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-10-10000-hours-late-to-the-outliers-conversation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-10-10000-hours-late-to-the-outliers-conversation/I'm finally reading Gladwell's Outliers on my iPhone, through the Kindle app, and I've realized the huge flaw in the 10,000 hours chapter - I've easily spent...Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-04-kindle-iphone-app-not-crippled-just-saving-money/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-03-04-kindle-iphone-app-not-crippled-just-saving-money/John Gruber linkedhttp://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/04/kindle-burnette to the Ed Burnette ZDNet articlehttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=834 wonderin...Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-24-everything-buckets-are-the-future/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-24-everything-buckets-are-the-future/In somewhat delayed response to Alex Payne's objection to "everything buckets,"http://al3x.net/2009/01/31/against-everything-buckets.html i.e. software like ...Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-18-david-hoang-makes-sweet-sweet-twitter-art/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-18-david-hoang-makes-sweet-sweet-twitter-art/Tonight at the weekly Big Blog meetup, which is orchestrated and maintained by Mónica Guzmán from the Seattle P-Ihttp://seattlepi.com, I got to meet Da...Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-18-mac-support/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-18-mac-support/I'm using Windows Live Meshhttp://www.mesh.com for a project right now, which is actually pretty cool except for the fact that it doesn't offer any Mac suppo...Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-12-so-much-for-3-5-day-shipping-i-want-my-kodak-zi6/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-12-so-much-for-3-5-day-shipping-i-want-my-kodak-zi6/I know that I'm really just being whiny and impatient, and if I really wanted it quickly I should have spent the extra $40 and bought it in a physical store,...Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-08-on-tax-cuts-maybe-sorta-kinda/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-08-on-tax-cuts-maybe-sorta-kinda/Gotta love the number of qualifiers in the first sentence of this New York Times storyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/yourtaxes/08lede.html?ref=yo...Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-07-battlestar-galactica-has-its-mojo-back/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-07-battlestar-galactica-has-its-mojo-back/I started today out by watching the newest Battlestar Galactica from yesterday. What an effing good episode. All three of the new ones have been incredible s...Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-05-curses-audible-is-not-what-i-want/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-05-curses-audible-is-not-what-i-want/All this time I thought that I could sign up for audible.com and it would act like Zune or Rhapsody, and let me download and play as many audiobooks as I'd l...Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-03-eat-sleep-publish-beat-the-ny-times-seo/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-03-eat-sleep-publish-beat-the-ny-times-seo/Looks like I beat the New York Times for "nyt bill keller answers questions." Doh: Image: Google searchTue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-02-email-is-the-new-status-symbol/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-02-02-email-is-the-new-status-symbol/So says the New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/us/politics/01obama.html?r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all. My favorite part: Mr. Gates does not use e-mail ...Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-31-my-new-favorite-error/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-31-my-new-favorite-error/And by "favorite", I mean, you stupid effing error, why do you exist? Image: errorSat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-30-inauguration-photos-are-on-their-way/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-30-inauguration-photos-are-on-their-way/Image: inaug I got my camera back yesterday by some miracle and all my photos were actually still on the damn thing. So now I have all my shots from inaugura...Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-28-my-computer-whines/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-28-my-computer-whines/Actually, all that's happening is that the fan is spending a lot, and I mean a lot more time completely spun-up than it used to. I'm not doing anything parti...Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-27-allthingsd-links-and-crushes-eat-sleep-publish/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-27-allthingsd-links-and-crushes-eat-sleep-publish/I'm very happy to say that my posthttp://eatsleeppublish.com/why-the-future-of-news-brands-hinges-on-net-neutrality/ about net neutrality and the future of n...Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-27-wordpress-upgrade/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-27-wordpress-upgrade/Image removed — original hosted on WordPress Update: upgrade complete, no hiccups I am dragging myself, kicking and screaming, into the immediate future. Wor...Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-26-my-camera-is-on-the-road-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-26-my-camera-is-on-the-road-again/As anyone who pays attention to my rampant tweetinghttp://twitter.com/jasonp107 already knows, while I was finally making the trip back from Washington DC on...Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-25-preparing-for-street-fighter-ii-destruction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-25-preparing-for-street-fighter-ii-destruction/Image removed — original hosted on WordPress I remember playing the crap out of Street Fighter II Turbo when the Super Nintendo was the coolest toy in the wo...Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-22-i-havent-taken-a-close-look-at-the-oscar-nominations-yet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-22-i-havent-taken-a-close-look-at-the-oscar-nominations-yet/but you probably have. What do you think? I get the sense that this year had a bit of a lackluster selection of films to begin with.Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-18-laziness-and-pictures/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-18-laziness-and-pictures/I'm really lazy when it comes to actually using pictures that I've taken. I could go on and on about that but I won't. Instead I'm just going to say that on ...Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-17-so-the-trip-begins/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-17-so-the-trip-begins/Mónica and I are waiting the last few minutes before boarding our flight from JFK to Richmond, VA, which will then let us catch a train ride to Washington...Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-16-sleeping-or-rather-not-sleeping-on-planes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-16-sleeping-or-rather-not-sleeping-on-planes/It's really too bad that taking red eye flights on Friday nights are a great way to get to the East Coast on a Saturday without missing any work, because I c...Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-15-broken-clocks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-15-broken-clocks/I can't stand broken clocks. There's one in the workout room at the Belltown Court condo complex in drumroll Belltown, and every time I get on the treadmill ...Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-15-i-cant-believe-im-playing-by-the-rules/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-15-i-cant-believe-im-playing-by-the-rules/I've never been a big fan of following rules that strike me as silly. I got into plenty of trouble in college because I spent almost as much time arguing wit...Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-14-the-internet-cant-hide-anymore/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-14-the-internet-cant-hide-anymore/I'm pretty sure that's actually the log-line from the AT&T commercial for these internet cards. I picked one up from AT&T the other day because I got incredi...Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-13-laptop-envy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-13-laptop-envy/I know I'm a geek because I get Laptop Envy pretty easily. My boss has a brand new MacBook Pro on the way, and my roommate Jacob has a new ultraportable or a...Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-12-underestimating-timothy-zahn/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-12-underestimating-timothy-zahn/I have a habit of understimating my favorite author, which is probably one of the reasons he is my favorite author. Pick up any book by Timothy Zahn and, if ...Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-11-it-wont-stay-in-vegas-this-year-either/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-11-it-wont-stay-in-vegas-this-year-either/Every year my company, the Parnassus Group, puts on the It Won't Stay in Vegashttp://itwontstayinvegas.com blogger party at CES, and every year it gets a lit...Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-06-features-are-commodities/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-06-features-are-commodities/I think my more recent enthusiasm for apple products as opposed to, say, three years ago can be attributed in part to a larger trend in consumer electronics:...Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-05-creativity-and-treadmills/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-05-creativity-and-treadmills/I read recently that people have more active read: smarter brains if they get regular exercise. I believe it because I tend to do a lot of thinking while I w...Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-02-the-easy-way-to-make-100-million/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2009-01-02-the-easy-way-to-make-100-million/Of all the "issues" that face my generation I tend to hate generational distinctions, but everyone else loves them, gay rights strikes me as the most drop-de...Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-12-23-snow-and-ice/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-12-23-snow-and-ice/I'm in North Conway, New Hampshire right now, where they're apparently all used to this "snow" stuff that's got Seattle all screwed up right now. On the one ...Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-12-17-the-end-of-the-stevenote/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-12-17-the-end-of-the-stevenote/This week's announcementhttp://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/12/16macworld.html that MacWorld Expo 2009 will be Apple's last appearance has sparked a lot of ...Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-12-04-suggestions-for-zune/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-12-04-suggestions-for-zune/I recently bought a Zune pass, which is a pretty sweet deal, and I think it's one of the few things Microsoft is really kicking ass at right now $15 per mont...Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-13-without-the-scare-tactics-really/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-13-without-the-scare-tactics-really/I thought this was a funny juxtaposition in my inbox today: Hello, Online safety is more important than even. The reason is simple: The threats faced by mino...Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-11-the-home-stereo-tool-i-want-the-most/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-11-the-home-stereo-tool-i-want-the-most/I have no idea if this even exists. I tried some random searching and I haven't seen anything like it yet, but it's pretty straightforward. I want a device t...Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-06-of-the-people-by-the-people/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-06-of-the-people-by-the-people/Image removed — original hosted on WordPressI have to say that this little widget is one of the coolest things I've found on change.govhttp://www.change.gov/...Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-03-to-all-those-who-think-the-youth-vote-turnout-is-likely-to-change/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-11-03-to-all-those-who-think-the-youth-vote-turnout-is-likely-to-change/Remember that they we? didn't turn out to keep the drinking age at 18 in the 1970s.Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-10-01-brilliant-advice-on-making-the-web-a-better-place/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-10-01-brilliant-advice-on-making-the-web-a-better-place/Give people a break. The break you probably deserve yourself. People are out to do good, 99% of the time. You probably are too. Say thanks out loud and a lot...Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-23-phplist-doesnt-work-with-godaddy-try-using-smtp/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-23-phplist-doesnt-work-with-godaddy-try-using-smtp/I sent out the first e-mail on the Official Eat Sleep Publish E-mail Listhttp://eatsleeppublish.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1 today, which means that everyone ...Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-23-seth-godin-on-statistics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-23-seth-godin-on-statistics/Seth Godin is, as usual, 100% correct about the best way to use statistics as a marketer. Changing the statistics is a lot easier than getting people to admi...Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-16-sweet-video-game-validation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-16-sweet-video-game-validation/Washington, DC — The first national survey of its kind finds that virtually all American teens play computer, console, or cell phone games and that th...Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-16-top-of-the-ticket-sarah-palin-or-john-mccain/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-16-top-of-the-ticket-sarah-palin-or-john-mccain/John McCain. Find out more by reading my guest posthttp://teresacentric.com/2008/09/why-talking-about-sarah-palin-is-a-big-big-mistake-for-democrats/ on Tere...Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-09-video-games-teach-the-scientific-method/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-09-video-games-teach-the-scientific-method/Found thishttp://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/09/gamesfrontiers0908 on Wired today. Basically it explains how playing videogames ...Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-05-the-second-best-image-on-the-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-05-the-second-best-image-on-the-internet/It's funny every time I look at it. Image removed — original hosted on WordPress Those were the droids I was looking for!Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-03-why-i-use-the-premium-thesis-theme-for-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-09-03-why-i-use-the-premium-thesis-theme-for-wordpress/Disclaimer: I am a member of the Thesis affiliate program, which means that if you follow one of my linkshttp://diythemes.com?aaid=jp and buy Thesis, I will ...Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-28-omg-bandwidth-at-thinkspace/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-28-omg-bandwidth-at-thinkspace/Thinkspacehttp://thinkspace.com/blog/, where we just moved our offices, upgraded their internet connection. But we were plugged into the wrong wall socket. J...Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-27-ironic-headlines-would-you-get-your-design-advice-here/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-27-ironic-headlines-would-you-get-your-design-advice-here/I always have a little laugh when I see ugly sites talking about simple and elegant design. Which is probably why I don't talk about simple and elegant desig...Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-22-im-at-gnomedex/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-22-im-at-gnomedex/Image removed — original hosted on WordPress Come find me if you want. That photo is POV from where I'm sitting. Why not, right?Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-22-photogrophy-and-social-good-are-strong-themes-at-gnomedex/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-22-photogrophy-and-social-good-are-strong-themes-at-gnomedex/Image removed — original hosted on WordPress Update: I did bring my camera! See? I am definitely bringing my real camera to Gnomedex tomorrow. The morning ki...Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-15-liveplace-shows-off-graphics-in-the-cloud/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-15-liveplace-shows-off-graphics-in-the-cloud/Holy. Crap. This video, ganked from TechCrunchhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/, ...Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-15-new-york-times-iphone-app-highly-recommended/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-15-new-york-times-iphone-app-highly-recommended/When the iPhone app store first hit the streets, I downloaded and reviewed both the NYT and the AP mobile news app on Eat Sleep Publish no link because I don...Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-14-google-thinks-its-wednesday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-08-14-google-thinks-its-wednesday/Kind of amusing when Google screws up - here's today's weather widget on my Google homepage: Image removed — original hosted on WordPressThu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-30-three-lessons-from-putting-together-a-local-event/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-30-three-lessons-from-putting-together-a-local-event/!http://eatsleeppublish.com/images/pitch-p2.pnghttp://www.eatsleeppublish.com/the-pitchAlthough I've been part of putting together and marketing both the Blo...Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-28-torcom-looks-sweet-i-hope-it-supports-book-groups/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-28-torcom-looks-sweet-i-hope-it-supports-book-groups/I remember signing up for a once-a-week free e-book to promote the launch of Tor.comhttp://tor.com/ a while back because I wanted to snag the sweet stories t...Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-25-theres-something-funny-about-this-paragraph/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-25-theres-something-funny-about-this-paragraph/From this articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/business/media/25adco.html?r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1216987313-xAuWXeC7Jl6fqGkyXC0H...Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-22-25-billion-is-not-an-ok-price-tag/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-22-25-billion-is-not-an-ok-price-tag/It's been frustrating to watch the US Government take steps to help failing financial companies Get Out Of Jail Free. On the one hand, I'm no idiot, and I un...Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-18-laptops-with-service-plans/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-18-laptops-with-service-plans/I don't remember if I actually made a blog post about it or just thought about it can't find the post, but a few years ago I wondered if computer makers were...Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-14-four-is-the-new-three/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-14-four-is-the-new-three/You know how three is the great, classic number of things to list when you're writing? Apples can be sliced, arranged, and eaten. Hurricanes are loud, danger...Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-11-front-page-eh/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-11-front-page-eh/I look all squished on SeattleTimes.comhttp://seattletimes.com's home page: Image removed — original hosted on WordPress And once that's no longer on the hom...Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-11-server-crashes-must-be-good-pr-at-apple/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-11-server-crashes-must-be-good-pr-at-apple/Just for the record, I did not buy a new iPhone. I wonder if a certain amount of problems is actually good for business. It seems like Apple still can't keep...Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-09-pogue-and-mossberg-review-the-iphone-3g-i-try-not-to-buy-one/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-09-pogue-and-mossberg-review-the-iphone-3g-i-try-not-to-buy-one/If you're curious about how the new iPhone is going to work outside the PR bubble of Macworld, now is a good time to check out the reviews from Walt Mossberg...Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-09-the-number-one-reason-i-want-a-kindle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-09-the-number-one-reason-i-want-a-kindle/...is for reading PDFs. This is part of the "lean forward, lean back" dichotomy of reading habits that I'm going to talk about eventually on Eat Sleep Publis...Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-03-how-necessary-is-lengthy-writing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-07-03-how-necessary-is-lengthy-writing/I just finished reading a very thought-provoking and reasonably lengthy piece from Nick Carr at the Atlantic Monthly called Is Google Making Us Stupid?http:/...Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-21-demo-video-from-podcamp-seattle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-21-demo-video-from-podcamp-seattle/Here's the video we put together in the basic video editing session at Podcamp Seattle 2008http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodcampSeattle.Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-21-sitting-in-the-twitter-for-beginners-session-at-podcamp-seattle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-21-sitting-in-the-twitter-for-beginners-session-at-podcamp-seattle/!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/25977308171cd7ae1bf8m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/2597730817/sizes/s/ That's my picture from the back of t...Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-18-excited-for-qik-on-the-iphone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-18-excited-for-qik-on-the-iphone/For a long time I've been jealous of anyone with a Nokia N95 because they've been able to stream video live from their cell phone to Qik forever. Videobloggi...Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-18-unfinished-thoughts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-18-unfinished-thoughts/I feel like good blog posts are unfinished thoughts. If blogs and social media are about conversation it doesn't make much sense to try to close out a topic ...Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-18-what-that-is-up-with-the-new-delicious-plugin/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-18-what-that-is-up-with-the-new-delicious-plugin/I upgraded to Firefox 3http://getfirefox.com, which rocks, and so I also upgraded to the new del.icio.us plugin, because it's a million times easier to use t...Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-11-trying-out-fontburner/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-11-trying-out-fontburner/I ran across this really cool service today called Fontburnerhttp://www.fontburner.com/. What they do---and I have absolutely no idea how they do this---is t...Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-09-podcamp-seattle-2008/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-09-podcamp-seattle-2008/Image removed — original hosted on WordPressIn about two weeks, on Saturday, June 21st, I'll be presenting some basics of video editing and distribution at P...Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-05-disqus-should-support-multibloggers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-05-disqus-should-support-multibloggers/I know I am not the only person who blogs in multiple places. Fred Wilson blogs at A VChttp://avc.blogs.com, Union Square Ventureshttp://unionsquareventures....Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-03-how-not-to-move-your-web-site/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-06-03-how-not-to-move-your-web-site/The Business Traveller web site has moved: Image removed — original hosted on WordPress What's missing? A link, or in fact any information, as to where it ha...Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-29-broadcast-flag-renders-windows-media-center-pointless/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-29-broadcast-flag-renders-windows-media-center-pointless/Earlier this month my Media Center quietly stopped recording anything from Comedy Central. No more Daily Show and Colbert Report for me I haven't seen them s...Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-23-xbox-live-should-have-savegame-sharing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-23-xbox-live-should-have-savegame-sharing/For a long time I have been morally opposed to paying for Xbox Live. I'm a PC Gamer at heart, after all, and Valve isn't charging me to hook up to Steam. So ...Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-20-prepping-for-a-guest-presentation-in-com597/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-20-prepping-for-a-guest-presentation-in-com597/Tonight I'm going to be skipping over to the University of Washington campus to give a guest presentation on podcasting for Kathy Gill's COM597: Podcasting i...Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-20-steve-broback-personal-blogger/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-20-steve-broback-personal-blogger/It's always been a mystery to me why one of the first people to really get blogging took so long to set up a personal blog. I've watched my boss, Steve Broba...Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-19-link-carryover/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-19-link-carryover/I wonder how many links carry over from one blog post to another. When I follow up on a conversation that someone else started, or add my voice to a conversa...Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-09-needle-on-the-go/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-09-needle-on-the-go/Image: Needle on the go I just made this my desktop wallpaper. Shot this while turning on to highway 99 in downtown Seattle.Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-07-interview-with-darren-herman-from-iga-about-advertising-in-videogames/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-07-interview-with-darren-herman-from-iga-about-advertising-in-videogames/This is an article I wrote in 2006 for Flicker Gaming. I'm posting it now because it's no longer available anywhere else online and I need to link to it for ...Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-06-unifnished-thoughts-about-politics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-06-unifnished-thoughts-about-politics/I've been reading but don't have the mental energy to put together coherent opinions. Here's what I've got. - Read this: The People vs. Jeremiah Wrighthttp:/...Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-02-quote-17/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-05-02-quote-17/"The oh-my-God moment came when I realized that Israel can destroy all of its local enemies by inventing solar technology that makes oil uneconomical. Such a...Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-30-hands/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-30-hands/Image: Hands This is from my birthday party last Saturday.Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-29-24-visitors-today-at-eat-sleep-publish/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-29-24-visitors-today-at-eat-sleep-publish/So says Google Analytics: If those were stats for Jason-Preston.com, I'd be upset. But since this is for a 2-day old blog, I'm quite happy. Image removed — o...Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-28-introducing-eat-sleep-publish-my-new-personal-obsession/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-28-introducing-eat-sleep-publish-my-new-personal-obsession/Image removed — original hosted on WordPressMany of you are probably already aware that I've been working on Eat Sleep Publishhttp://eatsleeppublish.com for ...Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-25-bus-stops-support-obama/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-25-bus-stops-support-obama/Image: Bus Stops for Obama I saw this today when I was taking the bus downtown. Figured if the bus stops in Seattle support Obama, it's a good sign.Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-25-magazines/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-25-magazines/Image: magazine stackThis is a post that I wrote in November of 2006 but left in the drafts folder. Given my current plans to launch Eat Sleep Publish on Mon...Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-24-yoga-fail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-24-yoga-fail/Inspired in part by Teresahttp://teresacentric.com. It cracks me up. Image removed — original hosted on WordPressThu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-23-downtown-sunset/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-23-downtown-sunset/Image: Downtown Seattle Sunset I like to take pictures while I'm driving. You just grab the camera with one hand, point it out the window, and click a whole ...Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-21-unfinished-street/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-21-unfinished-street/Image: Unfinished Street One of the streets in Loreto, Mexico. Driving through town was kind of a grab-bag experience.Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-20-speaking-of-hard-journalism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-20-speaking-of-hard-journalism/This is the type of article that I think, if newspaper organizations die, we will be losing. And as a society and as consumers we ought to consider that very...Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-a-poll-about-hard-journalism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-a-poll-about-hard-journalism/Because it amuses me, I want to ask you about "hard journalism." By this I mean the kinds of things you read on the front page of a newspaper, but not the ki...Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-how-much-business-is-conducted-in-coffee-shops/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-how-much-business-is-conducted-in-coffee-shops/I'm sure the answer varies from city to city. One of benefits or curses, depending on how you look at it of the job that I have is that I get to spend a lot ...Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-obligatory-space-needle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-obligatory-space-needle/Image: Obligatory Space Needle I feel like anyone living in Seattle who bothers to take pictures will eventually be forced to have a picture of the Space Nee...Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-thinking-and-reading-in-the-wrong-order/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-16-thinking-and-reading-in-the-wrong-order/I often do my thinking and my reading in the wrong order. I'll spend a lot of time rolling ideas around in my head until I come up with a point of view I lik...Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-14-in-the-pi/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-14-in-the-pi/Image: In the PI View of the PI globe in downtown SeattleMon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-11-quack/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-11-quack/Image: quack? There were some brave ducks by Greenlake.Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-11-whoops-hillary-clinton-headlines/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-11-whoops-hillary-clinton-headlines/My new favorite Facebook application. What great headline selection: Image removed — original hosted on WordPressFri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-10-the-20-years-experience-problem/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-10-the-20-years-experience-problem/Image removed — original hosted on WordPressWhen you're doing a NYT crossword puzzle, you have a significant advantage if you've been filling them in for yea...Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-09-scaffolding-and-sky/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-09-scaffolding-and-sky/Image: Scaffolding and Sky I won't claim that my intention was to take this picture, or that I meant for it to be out of focus. I was actually trying to get ...Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-07-cactus-in-the-night/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-07-cactus-in-the-night/Image: Cactus in the Night Taken somewhere in the middle of BCS, Mexico. In the hi-res version it's a lot easer to see the sliver of the moon in the sky.Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-06-now-running-on-wordpress-25/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-06-now-running-on-wordpress-25/As far as the front end is concerned, everything should look and work exactly the same. The back end is completely different, but I figure that there's no us...Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-05-happy-birthday-conrad/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-05-happy-birthday-conrad/It's my brother's birthday today, which is without a doubt the best of all possible times to put a ridiculous picture of him on the internet: Image: Conrad P...Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-04-feet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-04-feet/Image: Feet Sorry for the days off. I've been busy with plenty of workhttp://www.parnassusgroup.com and Mario Tennis, which I know is no excuse. Here are som...Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-04-the-iphone-placed-in-the-continuum-of-email-user-interfaces/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-04-the-iphone-placed-in-the-continuum-of-email-user-interfaces/Seriously, it's so abnormal for Apple. I think we should force everyone who coded the interface to use it for all of their e-mail until they fix it. Image: T...Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-03-new-yorker-cartoon-contest-submission-get-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-03-new-yorker-cartoon-contest-submission-get-it/When I get the New Yorker in the mail, the first thing I do is flip to the back and come up with a caption for the cartoon. I like to think it keeps my comed...Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-01-working-on-new-site-at-eat-sleep-publish/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-04-01-working-on-new-site-at-eat-sleep-publish/Ever since Teresahttp://teresacentric.com introduced me to MAMPhttp://www.mamp.info/en/index.php I've become addicted to fiddling with and building WordPress...Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-28-how-i-successfully-manage-my-feed-reader-with-subject-folders/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-28-how-i-successfully-manage-my-feed-reader-with-subject-folders/Image: Google reader foldersReading RSS feeds is a mess. No matter how much you try, you're not going to get through everything you really want to get throug...Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-26-side-mirror/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-26-side-mirror/Image: Side Mirror This is the kind of picture I think that any photogropher ends up taking a zillion times, even though it's so cliche. I'm leaning out the ...Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-25-the-videogame-cycle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-25-the-videogame-cycle/I think it's interesting that whenever a new videogames medium is introduced we have to recycle the whole genesis of games all over again. The first thing th...Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-24-historical-documents/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-24-historical-documents/I wonder at what point the US Constitution became a historical document, therefore earning the privilege of bullet-proof glass. For how long did the US Senat...Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-24-refocusing-on-my-science-fiction-short-story-vespyr/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-24-refocusing-on-my-science-fiction-short-story-vespyr/I have a wall-mounted shelf above my desk where I keep a few things that are either useful or sentimental: a picture, a camera lens, the TIE FIGHTER videogam...Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-24-se-vendes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-24-se-vendes/Image: se vendes In Loreto, MexicoMon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-21-do-i-keep-disqus/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-21-do-i-keep-disqus/In the end, this decision belongs to the people who comment on my blog. I've been using Disqushttp://www.disqus.com for several months now, and it's worked e...Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-21-sunset-on-the-beach/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-21-sunset-on-the-beach/Image: Sunset on the beach Snapped just as the sun was going down. This is on Whidbey Island again.Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-20-the-newspaper-question-do-you-keep-the-paper/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-20-the-newspaper-question-do-you-keep-the-paper/Everyone knows that across the country newspaper circulation numbers are declininghttp://www.pr-inside.com/newspaper-publishers-in-the-us-in-r458213.htm alth...Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-19-blogging-your-interests-diversify-or-consolidate/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-19-blogging-your-interests-diversify-or-consolidate/I'm well aware that this blog is a complete jumble of ideas and topics. It's a fairly accurate representation of what I'm like in person: an opinionated, int...Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-19-dicks-burgers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-19-dicks-burgers/Image: Dicks Burgers Pretty much the best semi-fast food burger joint everWed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-19-why-it-is-hard-to-write-about-vidoegames-with-a-handy-dandy-chart/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-19-why-it-is-hard-to-write-about-vidoegames-with-a-handy-dandy-chart/I love videogames. I've been playing videogames on consoles and computers for basically as long as I can remember. I beat Zork. I coded my own text adventure...Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-18-seattle-the-science-fictiony-town-and-myself-are-sorry-to-see-arthur-c-clarke-go/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-18-seattle-the-science-fictiony-town-and-myself-are-sorry-to-see-arthur-c-clarke-go/Image: hellodaveI just learned that Arthur C. Clarke died todayhttp://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/134565.aspextended. As a fan of science...Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-18-why-openid-will-never-work/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-18-why-openid-will-never-work/I currently use Disqus as the comment system on this blog, and they made a blog posthttp://blog.disqus.net/ today about their beta 2 updates. One of the ones...Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-17-jason-preston-is-the-top-search-term-on-google/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-17-jason-preston-is-the-top-search-term-on-google/I knew you all loved me, but, aww, shucks. Making Jason Preston the top Google search termhttp://www.google.com/trends? It's too much. I can only assume this...Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-17-thoughtful-beach/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-17-thoughtful-beach/Image: Thoughtful Beach Yep, this is another shot from Whidbey. There were many pictures.Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-17-tv-companies-realize-casual-gaming-is-a-big-market/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-17-tv-companies-realize-casual-gaming-is-a-big-market/Last friday I went to Seattle Lunch 2.0http://seattlelunch20.wetpaint.com/?t=anon, hosted by Parker Serviceshttp://parkerservices.com/ and featuring a short ...Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-14-three-on-the-beach/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-14-three-on-the-beach/Image: Three on the beach Continuing with the beach theme...Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-13-amazon-kindle-impressions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-13-amazon-kindle-impressions/My sister is home from Dartmouth for a little over a week and she brought her Kindle with her duh - what use would it be sitting back there?. I've had a chan...Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-13-amazon-should-make-an-e-book-reader-app-for-the-iphone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-13-amazon-should-make-an-e-book-reader-app-for-the-iphone/What if Amazon offered a free or cheap e-book reader application for the iPhone? If I designed it, you could read at variable text sizes and flip through the...Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-12-silhouettes-on-the-beach/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-12-silhouettes-on-the-beach/Image: silhouettes on the beach Another shot from Whidbey IslandWed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-10-sun-on-the-water/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-10-sun-on-the-water/Image: Sun on the water Taken on Whidbey Island, WA.Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-07-distraction-free-writing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-07-distraction-free-writing/Distraction Free Writing Some people need to be somewhere without any distractions to get their writing done. I am not one of those people. Instead of gettin...Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-07-michigan-and-florida-im-sorry-but-you-missed-out/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-07-michigan-and-florida-im-sorry-but-you-missed-out/If I were a voter in Michigan or Florida, Democrat or Republican, I would be furious. John Scalzi agrees with me.http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=467 Because at...Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-06-bulk-pricing-and-the-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-06-bulk-pricing-and-the-internet/Bulk pricing exists because of economies of scale. The idea is that the cost of producing "one additional item" falls as you produce more of them. This is be...Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-06-tuaw-apparently-surprised-that-the-iphone-is-a-good-gaming-platform/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-06-tuaw-apparently-surprised-that-the-iphone-is-a-good-gaming-platform/Like the whole blogosphere has been saying for nearly a year, the iPhone is a great gaming platform. It could kill the Nintendo DS, and look what the DS did ...Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-05-hit-the-buttons/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-05-hit-the-buttons/Image: buttons There's a mini-arcade in Whistler Village downstairs from the Mongolie Grill. Some of the games have dire warnings.Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-04-women-and-voting-and-hillary-clinton-and-feminism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-04-women-and-voting-and-hillary-clinton-and-feminism/No, I'm not going to write a big long meaningful post about it. I have little credibility as a Woman or a feminist. My awesome girlfriend, however, has plent...Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-03-freeway-sidewall/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-03-freeway-sidewall/Image: Freeway Sidewall Snapped this shot on I-5 north near downtown Seattle, WAMon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-01-thinking-i-might-jailbreak-my-iphone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-03-01-thinking-i-might-jailbreak-my-iphone/Given the information here and in this comment here, I think I might jailbreak my iPhone soon. I still need to do a little more research. I don't yet underst...Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-29-belt-rack-and-cane/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-29-belt-rack-and-cane/Image: Belt Rack and Cane Happy Leap Year everyone. Sorry for the delay in posting the picture today - I got caught away from my external HDD. Snapped this p...Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-29-learning-about-css/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-29-learning-about-css/I recently picked up a copy of Eric Meyer'shttp://www.meyerweb.com CSS: The Definitive Guidehttp://www.amazon.com/CSS-Definitive-Guide-Eric-Meyer/dp/05965273...Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-29-trism-upcoming-iphone-game-by-demiforce/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-29-trism-upcoming-iphone-game-by-demiforce/Remember my five tips for iPhone game developershttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/02/19/5-tips-for-iphone-game-developers/? This guy has definitely...Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-28-bjorn-lomborg-ted-talk-why-global-warming-is-at-the-bottom-of-the-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-28-bjorn-lomborg-ted-talk-why-global-warming-is-at-the-bottom-of-the-list/My boss pointed me to this video yesterday from TED. I found it fascinating: He starts with a very valid premise: we can only do so much good. Which good sho...Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-28-i-am-a-controller-snob/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-28-i-am-a-controller-snob/So many videogames have bad controls. In some cases I'm more or less ok with it. In an RTS, it's more or less not an issue; precision and reaction time are n...Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-27-1684/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-27-1684/Douglas McLennan wrote a post the other day titled Who Put These Guys In Charge? Why Newspapers Are Failinghttp://www.najp.org/articles/2008/02/crisis-what-c...Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-27-ibm-ideating-commercial-why-i-will-always-chuckle-at-the-word/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-27-ibm-ideating-commercial-why-i-will-always-chuckle-at-the-word/I can't help it. It's funny when people say "ideate." ideatehttp://www.vimeo.com/300039/l:embed300039 from ax09001hhttp://www.vimeo.com/user251989/l:embed300...Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-27-ominous-skies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-27-ominous-skies/Image: Ominous Skies Shot by highway 99 in Freemont, Seattle.Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-26-so-much-search-is-re-find/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-26-so-much-search-is-re-find/I think a large majority of what I search for is, essentially, "stuff that I've already seen." When I'm writing a new post, and I want to refer to something ...Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-25-real-blog-posts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-25-real-blog-posts/Don't worry, I haven't abandoned this site to the whimsical mercy of Twitter, I've just been short on time for making real posts. I'll also update the Pictur...Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-25-the-stakeout/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-25-the-stakeout/Image: The Stakeout Taken just outside of MarketTime in Freemont.Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-22-construction-on-mercer-island/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-22-construction-on-mercer-island/Image: Construction on Mercer Island Building another giant apartment building on Mercer IslandFri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-20-rss-subscribers-let-me-know-about-the-tweets/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-20-rss-subscribers-let-me-know-about-the-tweets/Pulling tweets into my blog is an experiment. I like that it keeps the site frequently updated, but I can also see a world in which I'm causing people's poor...Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-20-snow-on-the-roof/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-20-snow-on-the-roof/Image: snow on the roof Sorry for the delay. This was taken from my kitchen when it snowed in December 2007.Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-5-tips-for-iphone-game-developers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-5-tips-for-iphone-game-developers/Image: iphone gamesSince I got myself an iPhonehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/01/19/my-new-iphone/ about a month ago, I've been waiting anxiousl...Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-after-much-deliberation-i-have-decided-that-tweets-will-be-posts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-after-much-deliberation-i-have-decided-that-tweets-will-be-posts/I've had my Tweetshttp://twitter.com/jasonp107 from Twitter running through my sidebar for some time now. There are some awesome benefits to this system. Mos...Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-funny-how-when-quoting-blogs-i/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-funny-how-when-quoting-blogs-i/Funny how when quoting blogs I use the blogger's name but when quoting the NYT I just say "the new york times"Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-just-finished-watching-monigu/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-just-finished-watching-monigu/just finished watching @moniguzman do her awesome presentation on news commentingTue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-ok-that-was-a-dumb-question-w/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-ok-that-was-a-dumb-question-w/ok that was a dumb question. We twitter&ignite seattlers should all say hi before we leave!Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-sometimes-i-am-jealous-of-morn/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-19-sometimes-i-am-jealous-of-morn/sometimes I am jealous of morning people, but then I realize that they don't get to stay up late like I doTue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-footprint-and-rock/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-footprint-and-rock/Image: Footprint and Rock Snapped during low tide on the beach at Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island in WA.Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-making-sure-i-follow-everyone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-making-sure-i-follow-everyone/Making sure I follow everyone who follows me. Created a giant "follow deficit." Now it's backwards. Who's not following me?? ;Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-some-genius-level-thinking-on-the-music-industry/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-some-genius-level-thinking-on-the-music-industry/From Umair at Bubblegeneration. Check it outhttp://www.bubblegeneration.com/?a=a&resource=musicrisk1: The point is this: the net offers listeners insurance a...Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-stat-padding-with-google-search-results/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-stat-padding-with-google-search-results/I've been enjoying a lot of stat padding recently because I am the number 1 search resulthttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tv+links+replacement&btnG=Googl...Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-the-new-seattler-or-something/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-18-the-new-seattler-or-something/For a while now I've thought it would be a fun project to set up a magazine based in Seattle that is like The New Yorkerhttp://www.newyorker.com. The New Yor...Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-15-how-can-newspapers-make-money/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-15-how-can-newspapers-make-money/In case you weren't sure by now that newspapers were, by and large, in Big Trouble, the NYT has announced that they're going to drop 100 newsroom staffhttp:/...Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-15-tree-in-winter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-15-tree-in-winter/Image: Tree in Winter Funky looking tree in Kirkland, WA.Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-14-the-dilbert-blog-full-rss-feed-is-back/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-14-the-dilbert-blog-full-rss-feed-is-back/Hooray! I suffer from no illusions that my big long whiny posthttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/02/05/how-important-is-rss-to-blogging/ about cutti...Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-14-today-is-what/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-14-today-is-what/In case you've ever wanted to know what Ethan Ambabo's list is, and it is an interesting list, you can check it out over on RabidSpaceDoghttp://rabidspacedog...Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-13-further-reflection-on-why-i-think-appletv-is-a-worthless-piece-of-craptm/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-13-further-reflection-on-why-i-think-appletv-is-a-worthless-piece-of-craptm/Image: apple tvWhen the MacBook Air came out, I wrote a posthttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/01/15/its-the-macbook-air/ where I also dismissed off...Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-13-love-my-country/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-13-love-my-country/Image: Love My Country I took this picture I forget where.Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-12-how-do-you-think-violence-in-videogames-affects-kids/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-12-how-do-you-think-violence-in-videogames-affects-kids/OK let's not mince words. Videogame violence undoubtedly has an effect on kids. It has an effect on anyone, the same way Pavlov's bell has an effect on dogs....Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-11-netflix-to-stop-carrying-hd-dvds-by-the-end-of-the-year/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-11-netflix-to-stop-carrying-hd-dvds-by-the-end-of-the-year/According to PaidContenthttp://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-netflix-chooses-blu-ray-over-hd/, Netflix is switching completely to Blu-Ray: Online movie rente...Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-11-permanently-deleting-your-facebook-account/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-11-permanently-deleting-your-facebook-account/I wrote a post todayhttp://webcommunityforum.com/2008/02/how-to-permanently-delete-your-facebook-account-violate-the-terms-of-service/ on permanently deletin...Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-11-seattle-street-in-sunlight/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-11-seattle-street-in-sunlight/Image: Seattle Street in Sunlight 2nd Avenue in Belltown on a sunny Winter morning.Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-08-russians-claim-to-be-inventing-time-travel/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-08-russians-claim-to-be-inventing-time-travel/Image: time machinehttp://flickr.com/photos/ddbird/432138085/From Vnunet.comhttp://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2209280/travel-possible-months: Mathematicians ...Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-08-vegas-highways/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-08-vegas-highways/Image: Vegas Highways View from my hotel room at CES 2008Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-07-either-the-washington-caucus-finder-is-unbelievably-dumb-or-i-am/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-07-either-the-washington-caucus-finder-is-unbelievably-dumb-or-i-am/Two questions: 1. Isn't your caucus location based on your address? 2. Why can't you search for caucus location by address? OMFG so dumb. Fortunately for all...Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-07-footage-from-assassins-creed-on-nintendo-ds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-07-footage-from-assassins-creed-on-nintendo-ds/Check it out. Looks like the graphics on most DS ports from "big" console games. Thanks Peter for posting the footagehttp://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/07/ass...Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-07-the-digital-paper/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-07-the-digital-paper/I don't think it's going to be too far into our future when we're all using something like this to read our daily newspapers and our weekly, monthly, and qua...Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-06-pictures-of-the-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-06-pictures-of-the-day/Image: Snowy Streetshttp://www.jason-preston.com/potd/I'm still not sure why I'm calling it "Picture of the Day," because I'm only posting them three times p...Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-06-snowy-streets/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-06-snowy-streets/Image removed — original hosted on WordPress This rarely happens in Seattle, so I enjoy every minute of it.Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-06-the-writing-process/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-06-the-writing-process/I really like to read essays about writing, written by authors. When people who actually complete books or stories sit down and think about their process, or...Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-05-how-important-is-rss-to-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-05-how-important-is-rss-to-blogging/Image: DilbertRSS has been one of the central technologies to blogging since the very beginning. It's one of the things that makes blogs stand out so clearly...Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-05-picture-of-the-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-05-picture-of-the-day/The name is a bit of a misnomer since I plan to post pictures here only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The pictures will all be pictures that I have ta...Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTphotographyhttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-05-pictures-of-my-butt/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-05-pictures-of-my-butt/You wish. Maybe someday. In the meantime you'll have to be satisfied with checking out my friend Ethan's new site called you guessed it: Pictures of my Butth...Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-04-next-wednesday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-04-next-wednesday/It has come to my attention that some people think "next Wednesday" doesn't mean what I think next Wednesday means. For example, today is Monday February 4th...Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-01-lol-rabidspacedog-i-am-your-father/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-02-01-lol-rabidspacedog-i-am-your-father/According to Google's new Social Graph APIhttp://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findcontacts.html?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jason-preston.co...Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-31-dear-apple/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-31-dear-apple/Dear Applehttp://www.apple.com, Please give my iphone a "mark all as read" button in the e-mail interface. Also, please give me a digest inbox, like I have i...Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-30-free-download-sam-max-episode-4-abe-lincoln-must-die/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-30-free-download-sam-max-episode-4-abe-lincoln-must-die/Image: sam and maxWhen I got my most recent PC Gamer in the mail last week the March issue already - WTF?, I thought for a bit that I really was cooler than ...Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-29-quote-15/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-29-quote-15/I also noticed an interesting reaction to the ending between friends and family that had seen it. The “younger” generation we’re talking t...Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-29-quote-16/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-29-quote-16/Don't let the words get in the way. If you're writing online, forget everything you were tortured by in high school English class. You're not trying to win a...Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-28-metroids-is-totally-a-word/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-28-metroids-is-totally-a-word/Damn you Scrabulous! I should be able to play Metroids: Image: metroidsMon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-28-quote-14/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-28-quote-14/There's a reason Malcolm Gladwell is such a successful author. He has an eloquence that seems to be beyond most people: "Duncan Watts is exceedingly clever, ...Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-28-the-state-of-music-in-videogames/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-28-the-state-of-music-in-videogames/Image: odonnellIf "video games" were a widely recognized musical genre, it would be my favorite. My ringtone has been the original gameboy Tetris theme for y...Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-27-how-often-do-you-finish-reading-newspaper-articles/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-27-how-often-do-you-finish-reading-newspaper-articles/I just finished reading a pretty long piece in The New Yorker, which took me about 40 minutes. This got me wondering about how often people actually finish r...Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-26-barack-obama-south-carolina-victory-speech-read-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-26-barack-obama-south-carolina-victory-speech-read-it/I've posted beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/01/11/why-i-support-barack-obama-and-why-i-dont-support-hillary-clinton/ about why I support Ob...Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-26-ben-adlin-you-should-be-a-journalist-because-seriously-read-his-post-about-obama/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-26-ben-adlin-you-should-be-a-journalist-because-seriously-read-his-post-about-obama/For those of you who don't read Liberal College Kid which is probably most of you, I'm going to do you a favor and link to a post that Ben Adlinhttp://adlin....Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-26-thoughts-on-cloverfield/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-26-thoughts-on-cloverfield/I saw Cloverfield this past Thursday with Mónica, and despite what you've heard from everyone, the movie is awesome. Yes the camera is all over the place....Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-24-iphone-vs-voyager-site-redesign/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-24-iphone-vs-voyager-site-redesign/For the past two days I've been squirreled away in a little bunker of code, where I've been transforming our early alpha ugly prototype Sentimine sitehttp://...Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-22-the-iphone-is-an-awesome-gaming-platform/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-22-the-iphone-is-an-awesome-gaming-platform/I worry that, as with their past platforms, apple will decide to make it difficult for devlopers to make games foe the iPhone. I've already heard rumors that...Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-22-viral-video-game-marketing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-22-viral-video-game-marketing/Image: sidecarVideo Games have always been hitched oddly to the internet and tech advances, sort of like the guy in a motorcycle sidecar. The first reason I ...Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-22-you-call-that-an-xbox-360/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-22-you-call-that-an-xbox-360/Come on, people, you're running a tech site! Image: xboxTue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-20-lewis-black-blocked-on-my-media-center/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-20-lewis-black-blocked-on-my-media-center/What kind of horseshit is this? My girlfriend asked me today if I could do her a favor and record the Lewis Black special on Comedy Central because she was g...Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-20-the-iphindle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-20-the-iphindle/What if there were a device that combined the features and looks of both the iPhone and the Kindle? Something that was about the size of a magazine, but had ...Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-19-my-new-iphone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-19-my-new-iphone/As many of you may already know from my tweets or text messages, I broke down and bought an iphone on Thursday. It was a snap to set up an it has been a lot ...Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-18-potd-seattle-looks-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-18-potd-seattle-looks-cool/Image: Water View shot with my Rebel XTi, 50mm 1.4 lens.Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-17-loophole-in-mass-effect-infinite-renegade-points/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-17-loophole-in-mass-effect-infinite-renegade-points/Haven't you always wanted to be the most evil, conniving, dastardly Sheperd humanly possible? My roommate David recently embarked on a quest to go through Ma...Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-16-the-future-of-print-media-is-bio-paper/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-16-the-future-of-print-media-is-bio-paper/The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. We're going to replace physical media properties with an entirely different kind of physical media proper...Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-15-its-the-macbook-air/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-15-its-the-macbook-air/...and the winner is... Image: macbook air envelope Image: macbook air package Every time MacWorld comes around, the lead-up to the Jobs keynote is a whirlwi...Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-14-business-strategy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-14-business-strategy/I just finished reading a piece in Wired by Fred Vogelstein about the development of the iPhone. http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ffiphon...Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-14-game-review-ratchet-and-clank-future-tools-of-destruction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-14-game-review-ratchet-and-clank-future-tools-of-destruction/I've always found game reviews to be entertaining to read and a pain in the ass to write. First, you have to play the game. That's OK as long as it's a game ...Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-14-openid-password-system-completely-totally-useless/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-14-openid-password-system-completely-totally-useless/They make you pick 3-5 categories of images and you're supposed to remember/identify the categories, which then gives you some sort of rotating password. I c...Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-12-2008-ces-schwag-report/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-12-2008-ces-schwag-report/Since this is the first time I've been to CES, I can only assume that one of the natural pastimes at the show, aside from drooling over the various insanely ...Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-09-the-ces-it-wont-stay-in-vegas-blogger-party-was-off-the-hook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-09-the-ces-it-wont-stay-in-vegas-blogger-party-was-off-the-hook/!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2022/218130595401d0f17fc7m.jpgFor some strange reason, it's kind of difficult to get online at CES. The Bellagio doesn't have...Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-06-the-2008-it-wont-stay-in-vegas-ces-blogger-party-is-going-to-be-i-believe-the-phrase-is-off-the-hook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-06-the-2008-it-wont-stay-in-vegas-ces-blogger-party-is-going-to-be-i-believe-the-phrase-is-off-the-hook/Image: BloggerPartyhttp://cesbloggers.com/sponsor-our-2008-blogger-party-at-ces/Work on a Sunday? Sometimes it happens. I've just finished going through the ...Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-03-potd-the-climbing-tree/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-03-potd-the-climbing-tree/Image: The Climbing Treehttp://flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/2163931869/ When I was about 6 years old, I used to love climbing up into this tree - it has a lit...Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-03-trying-out-firefox-3-beta/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-03-trying-out-firefox-3-beta/Image: firefox 3http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.htmlThu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-02-george-lucas-accidentally-explains-why-star-wars-episodes-i-ii-iii-suck-so-bad/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2008-01-02-george-lucas-accidentally-explains-why-star-wars-episodes-i-ii-iii-suck-so-bad/According to the Sci-Fi blog io9http://io9.com/339660/george-lucas-explains-why-youll-hate-indy-iv worth checking out, George Lucas recently made a fool of h...Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-31-halo-3-one-line-review/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-31-halo-3-one-line-review/Posting has been light partly because of my shiny brand new Xbox 360. I haven't had one in my home for about four months now, and the return of next-gen cons...Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-31-rolling-thunder-has-arrived/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-31-rolling-thunder-has-arrived/My old roomie Ethanhttp://www.rabidspacedog.com introduced me to this awesome move called Rolling Thunderhttp://imdb.com/title/tt0076637/. That's right. Tomm...Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-27-going-back-home/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-27-going-back-home/I've noticed that in the criminal absence of in-flight wi-fi connections, a lot of people are starting to write blog posts while they're on the plane and the...Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-25-quote-13/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-25-quote-13/I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naiveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for wha...Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-24-cool-disqus-feature-delete/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-24-cool-disqus-feature-delete/For a while now I've been using a comment system called Disqushttp://www.disqus.com. Although there are a few good reasons not to be using ithttp://blogbusin...Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-24-halfway-across-the-world/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-24-halfway-across-the-world/A couple of years ago I spent a semester studying abroad in Brighton, England. It was a very defining experience in my life, but it was that way for a myriad...Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-24-merry-christmas-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-24-merry-christmas-2/As I write this it's 12:30 am in Texas, which makes it Christmas morning technically. For me, Christmas has always meant my younger brother waking our entire...Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-23-good-movies-around-christmas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-23-good-movies-around-christmas/Image: transformers movie You gotta admit, they put a lot of good movies on TV during Christmas time.Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-23-staying-with-grandmother/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-23-staying-with-grandmother/My family and I are staying with my Grandmother for Christmas this year. It's going to be a great vacation because we've got most of the family in one place ...Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-21-jason-calacanis-says-cigna-sucks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-21-jason-calacanis-says-cigna-sucks/Have you heard about the 17-year old girl who died recently? http://www.calacanis.com/2007/12/21/cigna-kills-nataline-sarkisyan/http://www.calacanis.com/2007...Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-19-beep-beep-adventure-games-are-back/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-19-beep-beep-adventure-games-are-back/Image: hugo3Thanks to Corvus Elrod's excellent cool-stuff-spotting skillzhttp://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2007/12/a-brainy-gamer-forever-voyaging/ yes, with a...Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-18-getting-up-early/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-18-getting-up-early/I went to bed by about 11:30 last night, and by some miracle when my alarm rang at 7am this morning, I only hit the snooze button once. I was cooking breakfa...Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-17-embedding-roswell-from-hulu/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-17-embedding-roswell-from-hulu/I'm not exactly sure how this works, but it looks to me like YouTube with licensed, monetized full TV content. Totally the right way to do online video. Chec...Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-17-quote-12/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-17-quote-12/“One of the holy grails of social science is the degree to which taste determines friendship, or to which friendship determines taste,” said Jaso...Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-13-cool-things/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-13-cool-things/- When you go to a restaurant, you usuallypay at the end of the meal, after you have been served - People get out of the way for an ambulance, because saving...Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-12-ben-franklin-would-blog-and-for-free/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-12-ben-franklin-would-blog-and-for-free/Corvus Elrodhttp://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus pointed out a post to me this morning that asks: What if Ben Were One of Us?http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/12/1...Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-10-quote-10/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-10-quote-10/People start writing literary fiction as they tumble through writing programs at Sarah Lawrence or Bennington or Iowa because that’s what they’...Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-10-quote-11/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-10-quote-11/With a million or more books available at a click, why should I invest the time to read all 640 pages of Advise and Consent when I can get the idea after 50 ...Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-10-why-can-you-charge-for-a-physical-newspaper/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-10-why-can-you-charge-for-a-physical-newspaper/Here's a question: why do people pay for a physical paper, when they refuse to pay for the same content online? It's because the internet has become known as...Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-09-conversation-starters/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-09-conversation-starters/My friend Jeremy can hold a conversation with literally anyone. It's a pretty impressive talent. When you break it down, he basically has a long list of opin...Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-how-to-sign-up-for-and-use-google-reader/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-how-to-sign-up-for-and-use-google-reader/I was thinking about how my mom was saying that she wasn't sure how often to visit my site anymore because I've gotten out of the habit of blogging every day...Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-quote-9/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-quote-9/The reality is this: publishers generally hold the enthusiast press in utter contempt, and they have for a long time. This disdain began as scorn for the ent...Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-survey-says-americans-want-government-regulated-games-are-we-effing-nuts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-survey-says-americans-want-government-regulated-games-are-we-effing-nuts/According to The Escapisthttp://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/79582-Survey-Shows-Americans-Want-Game-Laws, a recent survey the PR consultancy Hill & Kno...Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-the-future-of-the-gaming-enthusiast-press/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-08-the-future-of-the-gaming-enthusiast-press/Image: GerstmannAs you might be able to tell from the preceding quote, I just finished reading N'Gai's posthttp://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/200...Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-07-just-saw-beowulf-in-3d/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-07-just-saw-beowulf-in-3d/I just got back from seeing Beowulf at the AMC in Seattle - it was surprisingly good. I went into it having never read the book or heard the story, and the m...Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-06-are-you-attending-christmas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-06-are-you-attending-christmas/I LOLed at this one: Image: fb christmasThu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-06-quote-8/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-06-quote-8/Granted, it’s difficult to come up with any name that wouldn’t work as a rock band, but I think you’d agree that a band called the Homic...Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-05-quote-7/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-05-quote-7/When the web and all the people we know can start being an audio experience in our living rooms, it's a big deal. I realize that not many people have setups ...Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-05-running-tech-and-doing-tons-of-web-coverage-at-the-web-community-forum/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-05-running-tech-and-doing-tons-of-web-coverage-at-the-web-community-forum/Image: wcf speakingToday is day one of the Web Community Forumhttp://www.webcommunityforum.com - you know, that Facebook conference that I've been working on...Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-04-meet-up-at-the-local-vine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-04-meet-up-at-the-local-vine/Image: local vineGetting settled in for an evening at The Local Vinehttp://www.thelocalvine.com, a wine bar in Belltown near the venue for the Web Community ...Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-04-quote-6/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-04-quote-6/Xbox 360 Family Timer After a preset time, deactivates your family so you can concentrate on the game. If we've understood this right. from an MS Press Relea...Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-03-funny-messages/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-03-funny-messages/!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2344/20854714089444e05399m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/2085471408/ "photo sharing" Funny messageshttp://www.fli...Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-03-quote-5/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-03-quote-5/Let’s assume that I’m trying to get a new job. I’m kind of fucked, mainly because you’re reading me. Seriously. Anyone who looks ...Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-03-the-blank-space-in-media-between-newspapers-and-blogs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-03-the-blank-space-in-media-between-newspapers-and-blogs/I have never thoughthttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=116 that "big media" was going anywhere because of blogging. I certainly hope that I'm right, because new...Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-02-activision-and-vivendi-blizzard-merger/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-02-activision-and-vivendi-blizzard-merger/From the BBChttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7123582.stm this morning: The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal whi...Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-01-snowing-in-seattle-today/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-12-01-snowing-in-seattle-today/I took some pictures right outside my house. It might be time to get the fireplace working... !Snow Fallinghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/2079362196a2a4...Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-30-amazon-mp3-downloads-are-so-much-better-than-itunes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-30-amazon-mp3-downloads-are-so-much-better-than-itunes/I haven't bought anything on iTunes since I learned about Amazon's mp3 downloads servicehttp://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=samenudmusic1?ie=UTF8&...Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-30-the-new-indiana-jones-poor-harrison-ford/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-30-the-new-indiana-jones-poor-harrison-ford/You can't help but laugh: Image: fedora Found herehttp://ps238principal.livejournal.com/49066.html via theFerretthttp://theferrett.livejournal.com/1016549.htmlFri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-29-everybody-take-more-pictures-of-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-29-everybody-take-more-pictures-of-me/About six months ago I got a Canon Digital Rebel XTi, which has been one of my favorite toys. I never stop wishing I had it with me to try and take a picture...Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-29-quote-4/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-29-quote-4/I take it back, the “culture” of videogames is not a great big white sausage festhttp://rabidspacedog.com/2007/11/20/its-too-bad-jade-raymond-has...Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-29-things-you-notice-when-youre-doing-hundreds-of-blog-searches/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-29-things-you-notice-when-youre-doing-hundreds-of-blog-searches/The phrase "Is it just me, or..." is probably the most popular way to start a post where you're getting set to rip a new one in product or company X. Somethi...Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-28-food-photo/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-28-food-photo/!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2252/2071378323279a329a87m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/2071378323/ "photo sharing" Food Photohttp://www.flickr....Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-26-how-do-you-want-to-be-reading-newspapers-25-years-from-now/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-26-how-do-you-want-to-be-reading-newspapers-25-years-from-now/I've been bending my mind around "the future of journalism" for the past couple of days, and I'm not really sure I'm getting anywhere with it. The changes th...Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-26-quote-3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-26-quote-3/The only problem with Facebook's opt-in advertising system is that the users who they are selling to marketers didn't really opt-in. What they did do was fil...Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-25-quote-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-25-quote-2/I’ve read two books on Kindle, which explains why I haven’t been on Twitter very much in the past week. But the Kindle really bugs me now. Iââ...Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-24-quote/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-24-quote/When asked to describe qualities of an entrepreneur the first three Calacanis named were: paranoid, delusional and arrogant… he joked but not really th...Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-24-replicating-tumblr/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-24-replicating-tumblr/One of the things I tried to set up on this blog ages ago was the "asides" plugin, that worked well for throwing short little thoughts into the mix with long...Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-22-happy-thanksgiving/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-22-happy-thanksgiving/Happy Thanksgiving. What I've done today: 1. Got up at 6:30 AM 3. Drove for five hours 5. Ate myself silly 7. Watched Shaun of the Dead And I'm about to get ...Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-21-big-ol-post-on-facebook-beacon-privacy-over-at-wcf/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-21-big-ol-post-on-facebook-beacon-privacy-over-at-wcf/I wrote a post this morning over at the Web Community Forum about Facebook's new Beacon system and whether or not it's an invasion of people's privacy. For t...Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-20-bomberman-goes-mobile-why-the-iphone-could-easily-dominate-mobile-gaming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-20-bomberman-goes-mobile-why-the-iphone-could-easily-dominate-mobile-gaming/The last time I played Bomberman was just over a year ago. I remember my friend Ben bought the game on ebay a while back, and then I had to fix my NES so tha...Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-20-i-missed-the-scott-adams-book-blurb-contest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-20-i-missed-the-scott-adams-book-blurb-contest/See, this is what happens when I don't stay caught up in my feedreader. This posthttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/thedilbertblog/2007/10/its-a-book-it-1.html s...Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-20-less-blogging-more-twittering/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-20-less-blogging-more-twittering/I was talking with my mom the other day, who mentioned somewhat offhand that I haven't been blogging as much as I used to. This is completely true, and it ha...Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-19-assassins-creed-jade-raymond-comic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-19-assassins-creed-jade-raymond-comic/Apparently someone made a comic of Jade Ryamond attractive producer, Assassin's Creed doing very inappropriate things to sell the game. This has resulted in ...Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-18-whats-on-my-games-to-play-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-18-whats-on-my-games-to-play-list/At any given time I have a good three or four games on "the list" - you know, that list of games that you've thrown down the $$ for and haven't really even t...Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-16-why-marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-sillicon-valleywood/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-16-why-marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-sillicon-valleywood/As usual, I'm a few days late to this party. This is because anymore I'm usually a few days late to my feedreader, which is a habit I really need to break. M...Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-13-what-do-i-really-want-a-tumblr-plugin-for-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-13-what-do-i-really-want-a-tumblr-plugin-for-wordpress/I've been reading Fred Wilson's bloghttp://avc.blogs.com for a long time. One thing that I have learned while reading that blog is that if he is excited abou...Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-08-what-game-should-i-buy-crysis-hellgate-london-or-guitar-hero-iii/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-08-what-game-should-i-buy-crysis-hellgate-london-or-guitar-hero-iii/Update: I bought Guitar Hero III. It was an excellent choice. Ever friggin song is amazing. OK, OK, I know that eventually I'm going to have to buy all three...Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-05-guitar-hero-iii-enter-pat-benatar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-05-guitar-hero-iii-enter-pat-benatar/While down in Los Angeles I stayed with my friend Spencer, whose birthday it was on November 1st. And for his birthday he'd gotten a copy of Guitar Hero III,...Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-03-its-hot-in-los-angeles/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-11-03-its-hot-in-los-angeles/I've been down in Los Angeles this weekend hanging out with my friends and getting a little more time than usual to relax. It's been fun so far. I've also re...Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-30-lucasarts-and-bioware-team-up-to-create-a-hilariously-terrible-press-release/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-30-lucasarts-and-bioware-team-up-to-create-a-hilariously-terrible-press-release/One of the reasons I like combing through my Games Press e-mail every morning is that about half the press releases nowadays are written with at least a litt...Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-26-eve-online-is-going-to-get-a-graphics-update-schweet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-26-eve-online-is-going-to-get-a-graphics-update-schweet/As far as I can tell the release date for "Trinity" the name of the update is "Winter," which I'm totally fine with because to be perfectly honest the graphi...Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-24-haha-you-think-people-want-free-tv/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-24-haha-you-think-people-want-free-tv/I just happened to mouse over this link today on my previous posthttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/10/22/tv-links-replacement-sites/. I NEVER get 1...Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-24-why-i-dont-use-adblock-plus/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-24-why-i-dont-use-adblock-plus/I'm an internet publisher's worst nightmare. I never click on ads. I think that in the time I've been using Google - years - I've probably given them about ....Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-22-tv-links-replacement-sites/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-22-tv-links-replacement-sites/I asked yesterday what sites would be replacing tv-links now that nobody can watch House if they happen to miss an episode on Tuesday night. Turns out someon...Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-21-tv-linkscouk-shut-down-26-year-old-owner-arrested/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-21-tv-linkscouk-shut-down-26-year-old-owner-arrested/According to After Dawnhttp://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11521.cfm: TV-links.co.uk, the UK's most used piracy film website has been closed down and its o...Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-19-blade-runner-the-final-cut-in-seattle-october-26th-at-the-cinerama/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-19-blade-runner-the-final-cut-in-seattle-october-26th-at-the-cinerama/Image: br posterThanks to Brett's comment on my last posthttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/10/08/bring-blade-runner-the-final-cut-to-seattle/ about...Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-18-in-game-advertising-used-to-recruit-secret-agents-in-splinter-cell/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-18-in-game-advertising-used-to-recruit-secret-agents-in-splinter-cell/Image: craig bondOK, let's be honest. Has any of us been watching this in-game advertising trend with any expectation of good things? I've basically been wai...Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-17-portal/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-17-portal/Image: portal There are spoilers in this post. They're behind the jump, but that only matters if you're reading this on the front page. The warning is in bol...Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-16-guitar-hero-ii-thoughts-and-review/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-16-guitar-hero-ii-thoughts-and-review/Image: gh2 bigGuitar Hero II Score: 93% I realized part of the way into my arbitrary review and rating system that all of these reviews are going to be heavi...Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-15-my-favorite-part-of-the-mahalo-how-to-get-a-good-nights-sleep-guide/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-15-my-favorite-part-of-the-mahalo-how-to-get-a-good-nights-sleep-guide/The guide is herehttp://www.mahalo.com/HowtoGetaGoodNight'sSleep. Get fifteen minutes of sunlight as soon as you wake up, says Dr. Dement. This will help set...Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-14-hellgate-london-has-the-best-subscription-model/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-14-hellgate-london-has-the-best-subscription-model/I was cruising through the Hellgate: London review in the latest PC Gamer why doesn't PC Gamer put their content online like every other major publisher? Com...Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-14-where-are-the-video-game-blogs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-14-where-are-the-video-game-blogs/When I launched Flicker Gaming a few years ago, one of the things I wanted to do beforehand was find out who mattered in video game blogging. It makes perfec...Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-13-finally-the-media-center-will-boot-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-13-finally-the-media-center-will-boot-again/Thanks to scouring through endless google searches for "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." I finally ran across this forum threadhttp://forums.hexus.net/showthread....Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-12-interview-with-gabe-newell-at-next-gen/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-12-interview-with-gabe-newell-at-next-gen/Around 2000, just a year or so after the release of the original Half-Life, I had the great good fortune to have lunch with Gabe Newell, the head honcho at V...Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-12-maxim-wants-to-know-who-is-your-daddy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-12-maxim-wants-to-know-who-is-your-daddy/Image: halo 3 headCruising through the Buttonmasherhttp://www.buttonmashing.com's blogroll seriously, is there any better place to catch up on gameblogging? ...Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-11-not-that-scoble-needs-link-love-but-check-out-the-video/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-11-not-that-scoble-needs-link-love-but-check-out-the-video/Steve, Teresahttp://www.teresacentric.com and I went to visit the Scobles last weekend in Half Moon Bay, which is a pretty unbelievably gorgeous location, go...Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-10-achievments-in-half-life-2-episode-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-10-achievments-in-half-life-2-episode-2/Image: episode 2 I just got through playing a good hour or so of Episode Two I know, I know - I should add it to my sidebar. I just redid the site and I'm la...Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-09-chipping-away-at-the-applecare-investment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-09-chipping-away-at-the-applecare-investment/If I remember correctly, it cost be approximately $300 to buy the full-on monkeys-and-organ grinders AppleCare protection plan for my MacBook Pro. I dislike ...Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-09-wrapping-my-head-around-mahalo-as-search/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-09-wrapping-my-head-around-mahalo-as-search/Image: mahalo logoFor a while now I've been trying to get myself conceptually comfortable with Mahalohttp://www.mahalo.com as a "search engine." I've been ba...Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-08-been-down-in-the-center-of-tech-for-the-weekend/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-08-been-down-in-the-center-of-tech-for-the-weekend/I've had a pretty good weekend in Sunnyvale and San Jose and, briefly, Half Moon Bayhttp://twitter.com/jasonp107/statuses/319085232, CA. On Friday Steve, Ter...Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-08-bring-blade-runner-the-final-cut-to-seattle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-08-bring-blade-runner-the-final-cut-to-seattle/The other Jason OK, so technically I'm probably the "other jason" saw Blade Runner: The Final Cuthttp://www.calacanis.com/2007/10/06/blade-runner-night-out/ ...Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-03-pre-loading-for-episode-two/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-03-pre-loading-for-episode-two/One good thing about being busy as all get out is that sometime the release dates for awesome video games sneak up on you. October 10th is when Episode Two s...Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-03-sometime-i-worry-that-im-getting-dumber/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-03-sometime-i-worry-that-im-getting-dumber/I don't know about you but I spend a fair amount of time worrying that I'm getting dumber because I don't regularly do intelligent things every day. Sure, I ...Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-01-did-you-know-that-projector-lamps-explode/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-10-01-did-you-know-that-projector-lamps-explode/Holy crap it's October. When did that happen? I've been absolutely negligent in posting for, well, I guess about half of a month. I found out several things ...Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-24-not-dead-yet-not-buying-halo-3-yet-either/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-24-not-dead-yet-not-buying-halo-3-yet-either/I've been busy during the day posting at the Web Community Forum bloghttp://www.webcommunityforum.com and inhabiting the virtual halls of our Facebook grouph...Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-17-you-can-add-non-steam-games-to-the-steam-game-launcher/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-17-you-can-add-non-steam-games-to-the-steam-game-launcher/Image: choosemenu.pngThis is sweet. 90% of the time I go to play a game, I'm doing it through the Steam launcher, not through the Start Menu or even the Vist...Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-14-is-there-any-way-to-activate-an-iphone-without-buying-a-plan/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-14-is-there-any-way-to-activate-an-iphone-without-buying-a-plan/I want to buy an iphone and unlock it with the free unlock softwarehttp://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/unlock/, but I don't want to have to buy a plan just to av...Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-13-downloading-eve-online-trial/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-13-downloading-eve-online-trial/Image: eve Am I making a huge mistake? I've heard from many people that EVE is one of the more life-consuming MMORPGs, and, after all, it was only a year ago...Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-13-phishing-on-xbox-live/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-13-phishing-on-xbox-live/Image: xbox-live-logo.jpgSo according to Kotakuhttp://kotaku.com/gaming/it.s-a-start/microsoft-acknowledges-phishing-on-live-299554.php, which I finally had ...Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-11-team-fortress-2-open-beta-on-september-17th-just-buy-the-orange-box/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-11-team-fortress-2-open-beta-on-september-17th-just-buy-the-orange-box/Image: team fortress 2 guyValve pushed another press release to my inbox today about the pre-release of The Orange Boxhttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/...Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-10-so-much-posting-today/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-10-so-much-posting-today/Just in case anybody thinks I'm being lazy and just not blogging today, here's a list of what's flown from these fingers: - Use Link Love to show people some...Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-10-twitter-in-my-sidebar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-10-twitter-in-my-sidebar/Image: tweetsOver the past several months I've gone from not understandinghttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/02/20/twitter-is-not-for-me/ and not wa...Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-08-two-of-my-favorite-terry-pratchett-quotes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-08-two-of-my-favorite-terry-pratchett-quotes/"The Duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." "In the village of Razorback a cat gave birth to a two-headed kit...Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-07-american-express-tina-fey-commercial-actually-funny/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-07-american-express-tina-fey-commercial-actually-funny/I've been watching the US Open coverage, and this is one of the commercials they've been playing all the time. For some reason, I can't stop laughing at the ...Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-07-happy-friday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-07-happy-friday/It's Friday and, at least in Seattle, it's really sunny. Happy Friday everyone.Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-06-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-care-about-rock-band/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-06-am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-care-about-rock-band/Image: rock bandHarmonix recently announced that, in an appropriately rock-band themed move, they're going on a country-wide tour with the game that everyone...Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-05-ipod-touch-very-tempting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-05-ipod-touch-very-tempting/As far as I can tell, there's only one thing missing from the iPod Touchhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-live-apples-the-beat-goes-on-special-ev...Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-04-everyones-a-casual-gamer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-04-everyones-a-casual-gamer/I spotted a press release today that probably landed in at least 8-bazillion other people's inboxes, talking about a study PopCap Games put together on the g...Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-04-game-library-castlevania-portrait-of-ruin-thoughts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-09-04-game-library-castlevania-portrait-of-ruin-thoughts/Image: castlevaniabig.jpgAs a quick and entirely unrelated side note, too many games have named sequels. It makes my post titles look awkward with two colons...Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-31-picture-of-the-moon/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-31-picture-of-the-moon/Last night the moon looked really cool in the Seattle night sky, so I used my Dad's telescope to take a few pictures. This is what I got: Image: the moon And...Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-30-im-curious-about-your-gaming-habits/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-30-im-curious-about-your-gaming-habits/I don't have time to write the stunningly awesome post I had planned for today, so here's a quick poll instead. I have no way of cross-referencing these resu...Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-29-master-chief-n-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-29-master-chief-n-me/In the category of things that are way too cool, I give you: Image: master chief jasonWed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-29-newer-slimmer-lighter-silverer-psp/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-29-newer-slimmer-lighter-silverer-psp/Image: silver pspI'm interested to see what Brian at Kotaku is going to think of his new PSPhttp://kotaku.com/gaming/handson/psp-slim-in-the-house-294685.php...Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-28-check-out-the-mediasphere/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-28-check-out-the-mediasphere/Today my lovely co-worker Teresahttp://www.teresacentric.com was the guesthttp://webcommunityforum.com/2007/08/ill-be-talking-about-facebook-on-the-mediasphe...Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-27-announcing-the-web-community-forum-seattle-december-5th-6th-2007/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-27-announcing-the-web-community-forum-seattle-december-5th-6th-2007/Today has been a hectic day. The announcementshttp://blogbusinesssummit.com/2007/08/blog-business-summit-chicago-important-update.htm over on the BBS blog sh...Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-27-im-declaring-a-no-bioshock-spoiler-zone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-27-im-declaring-a-no-bioshock-spoiler-zone/Looking around I'm noticing that people are finishinghttp://jayslacks.blogspot.com/2007/08/halo-3-wont-suck-because-bioshock-didnt.html BioShock all over the...Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-26-snapshot-of-gabes-assassins-creed-comic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-26-snapshot-of-gabes-assassins-creed-comic/Image: assassins creed comichttp://www.jason-preston.com/images/acreedbig.jpgAt PAX yesterday, the coolest thing I did was go to the panel where Tycho and Ga...Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-24-a-great-idea-for-cell-phone-stores/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-24-a-great-idea-for-cell-phone-stores/Image: blackberryWith the exception of a very few phoneshttp://www.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/24gphone.htm for a very few people, buying a new cell phone is a...Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-24-unlocked-iphone-when-can-i-get-mine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-24-unlocked-iphone-when-can-i-get-mine/Engadget has the scoophttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/. I want one. Now.Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-23-the-number-one-most-important-aspect-of-a-computer-game/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-23-the-number-one-most-important-aspect-of-a-computer-game/What is the number one most important aspect of a computer game? What is it that a gamer invariably uses 100% of the time she is playing a game? In every gam...Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-22-august-round-table-casual-and-hardcore-games/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-22-august-round-table-casual-and-hardcore-games/Image: hardcore gamerEven though I rarely get around to writing an entry for Corvus Elrod's monthly Round Tablehttp://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/round-table/ d...Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-21-id-say-steam-botched-the-bioshock-release/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-21-id-say-steam-botched-the-bioshock-release/I don't know how many big-time releases Steam has put out besides Valve's own Half-Life games, but this one hasn't gone particularly smoothly for me. Don't g...Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-21-running-commentary-on-the-first-20-minutes-of-bioshock/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-21-running-commentary-on-the-first-20-minutes-of-bioshock/Every now and then I get lucky. There's a game that comes out that I know is going to be good without having to watch all the pre-release videos and read the...Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-21-square-enix-store-open-in-the-usoh-boy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-21-square-enix-store-open-in-the-usoh-boy/Image: dirgeI spotted it on Joystiq last night, but I only clicked through to the store today to see what kinds of things you can pick up. It reminds me of a...Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-20-blogrolling-teh-buttonmasher/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-20-blogrolling-teh-buttonmasher/Occasionally I lose track of little things on my site like blogrolls, which, according to a recent pollhttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/07/31/who-...Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-20-i-give-up-on-image-borders/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-20-i-give-up-on-image-borders/I mentioned a day ago that I've got some seriously weird issues with image borders with this theme, and I still do. I just spent the entire length of Die Har...Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-20-x-oom-allows-movie-playback-on-the-wii-but-it-seems-really-clunky-to-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-20-x-oom-allows-movie-playback-on-the-wii-but-it-seems-really-clunky-to-me/Image: wii smallThere are about three thousand things about the Wii that are awesome, but I've never understood, even for a minute, why it can't simply play ...Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-19-recommended-reading-for-81907/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-19-recommended-reading-for-81907/Image: open bookI'm way too lazy to write a good post today, so instead I'm going to point you to a bunch of stuff other people have written: - Mayberry Manh...Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-18-game-library-counter-strike-source-review/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-18-game-library-counter-strike-source-review/Image: cs reviewCounter-Strike: Source Valve Software ------------------ Where to start? I've been playing Counter-Strike in some form or another since it wa...Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-16-im-getting-bioshock-on-steam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-16-im-getting-bioshock-on-steam/Image: bioshockIn my inbox this morning: PRE-PURCHASE 2K GAMES' BIOSHOCK VIA STEAM® NOW NEW YORK, NY, August 16, 2007 - Valve today announced that BioShoc...Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-16-silly-image-borders/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-16-silly-image-borders/Grrr...Firefox seems to think all my images that are links need to have borders, despite the fact that I've removed all the applicable CSS. Safari renders th...Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-16-the-new-pcgamer-cover-story-is-on-far-cry-2-me-want/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-16-the-new-pcgamer-cover-story-is-on-far-cry-2-me-want/Image: far cry 2 articlehttp://www.jason-preston.com/images/pcgfclbig.jpgI got my new PCGamerhttp://www.pcgamer.com issue in the mail yesterday it's the Octo...Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-15-signed-up-for-the-steam-community-beta/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-15-signed-up-for-the-steam-community-beta/...And it's still definitely in Beta. There are a lot of missing features that, if you look at the running changeloghttp://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/T...Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-14-penny-arcade-expo-will-you-be-there/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-14-penny-arcade-expo-will-you-be-there/I just got my Saturday Pass pink to PAXhttp://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/ in the mail today: Image: pax ticket I plan on showing up at a groggy 10am and staying...Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-13-another-round-of-pictures-from-estes-park/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-13-another-round-of-pictures-from-estes-park/I thought I'd throw up another set of pictures that I took while gallivanting around Rocky Mountain National Park. If anyone wants hi-res versions of these g...Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-13-letterbox-makes-mac-mail-like-outlook-in-a-good-way/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-13-letterbox-makes-mac-mail-like-outlook-in-a-good-way/One of the things that I had a hard time letting go of when I switched over to using Mac Mail instead of Outlook - which is basically all I've used for years...Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-13-why-newspapers-are-screwed-why-we-should-be-worried/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-13-why-newspapers-are-screwed-why-we-should-be-worried/Image: newspaperI know it's a little bit fun to run the numbers like thishttp://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/08/paint-by-number.html on why newspapers are s...Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-09-john-carmack-plans-to-make-a-true-cross-platform-game-engine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-09-john-carmack-plans-to-make-a-true-cross-platform-game-engine/Image: id logoI've been meaning to post about this 1up articlehttp://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161740 for a few days now. There's a whole bunch of intere...Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-09-new-threaded-way-cool-comment-system/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-09-new-threaded-way-cool-comment-system/Image: guy commentingI've spent the past couple of days commenting more than I have in the past year. I've hopped around to a lot of my favorite blogs - you'...Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-07-pictures-from-rocky-mountain-national-park/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-07-pictures-from-rocky-mountain-national-park/Yesterday I drove up Trail Ridge Roadhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=trail+ridge+road,+estes+park,+CO&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.729049,...Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-06-hellgate-london-slated-for-october-31-release/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-06-hellgate-london-slated-for-october-31-release/Image: hellgate london I like keeping an eye on video game press releases because I get juicy tidbits like these. I've been salivatinghttp://www.jason-presto...Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-06-steam-announces-social-networking-features/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-06-steam-announces-social-networking-features/Image: Steam Logo SmallerI'm going to excuse my constant regurgitation of Steam news by saying that I'm "following Steam's development with interest, because...Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-05-hiked-to-alberta-falls-today/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-05-hiked-to-alberta-falls-today/Image: Alberta FallsSun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-05-ps3-80gb-edition-now-available-or-you-can-just-add-a-hard-drive-to-a-smaller-ps3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-05-ps3-80gb-edition-now-available-or-you-can-just-add-a-hard-drive-to-a-smaller-ps3/This is maybe the first Playstation-related release that it is possible to miss. If you live in the US you can now run over to Gamestop and buy an 80GB versi...Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-04-finally-reading-starship-troopers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-04-finally-reading-starship-troopers/Image: starship troopersI bought Starship Troopers about two months ago right after I finished reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistresshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wi...Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-03-far-cry-2-has-a-video-blog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-03-far-cry-2-has-a-video-blog/The Far Cry 2 dev team is smart to have a blog. They're smarter to post the link in the Evil Avatarhttp://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=902750po...Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-03-valve-just-announced-that-steam-will-carry-id-software-games-yes-that-means-doom/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-03-valve-just-announced-that-steam-will-carry-id-software-games-yes-that-means-doom/Image: doom.pngI know that sometimes it might seem like I sit here and regurgitate Valve press releases, but the reality of it is that I only regurgitate the...Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-02-another-list-of-free-mac-apps/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-02-another-list-of-free-mac-apps/Way back when I first picked up my MacBookPro, I scoured the net for cool downloadables, and drew up my own list of 10 essential apps for the new mac userhtt...Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-02-blue-angels-practice/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-02-blue-angels-practice/In preparation for SeaFairhttp://www.seafair.com/ the Blue Angels are doing some practice flying right over my house. Snapped a quick picture: Image: blueang...Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-02-google-buys-into-in-game-advertising/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-02-google-buys-into-in-game-advertising/From the Evil Avatar forumshttp://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33641 and, of course, the redesigned and very pretty Escapist newshttp://www.esc...Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-01-lord-of-the-rings-online-gets-five-nominations-must-be-good/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-01-lord-of-the-rings-online-gets-five-nominations-must-be-good/Image: lotroI've always been a huge fan of everything Lord of the Rings. Which is why it was with a heavy heart that I let my open beta character fall into t...Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-01-self-data-or-as-fred-wilson-called-it-spying-on-myself/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-08-01-self-data-or-as-fred-wilson-called-it-spying-on-myself/I'm not much for tracking my web browsing habits. I think i'm scared to find out what sites I spend the most time on. But there are two bits of data that I'v...Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-31-ripping-dvds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-31-ripping-dvds/For the past month I've been slowly but steadily ripping my entire DVD collection onto my Media Center, so I have a gigantic digital scroll/search/rateable d...Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-31-who-uses-a-blogroll-anymore/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-31-who-uses-a-blogroll-anymore/It dawned on me that I never even look at people's blogrolls. I used to actually care about blogrolls before MyBlogLog rolled along incidentally they're spon...Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-29-using-the-tag-to-get-better-seo-in-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-29-using-the-tag-to-get-better-seo-in-wordpress/You might have noticed that I've been sticking that pesky "read more" split in way more of my posts than I have done in the past. The reason is detailed here...Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-29-world-series-of-gaming-on-cbs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-29-world-series-of-gaming-on-cbs/In a format that is undoubtedly going to be compared to Poker at least 300,000 times in the next five days, CBS is airing some footagehttp://kotaku.com/gamin...Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-28-comfort-movies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-28-comfort-movies/Image: rotjNostalgia is a powerful thing. There are times when I just need to sit down and watch a movie that for some reason or another reminds me of good t...Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-27-beyond-the-sword-looks-sweet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-27-beyond-the-sword-looks-sweet/According to this reviewhttp://pc.ign.com/articles/808/808215p1.html over at IGN, the new Civ IV expansion might be one of those irresistible goodies I'll ha...Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-27-my-deathly-hallows-predictions-revisited-how-did-i-do/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-27-my-deathly-hallows-predictions-revisited-how-did-i-do/Image: harry-potter-simpsons.jpgJust before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hit the shelves OK, technically, not very many copies hit shelves when I wen...Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-26-drive-traffic-with-destination-content/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-26-drive-traffic-with-destination-content/This is a modified excerpt of the book I'm slowly writing on marketing your blog and getting noticed in the blogosphere. Any comments are more than welcome. ...Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-26-the-ultimate-rolling-list-of-facebook-groups/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-26-the-ultimate-rolling-list-of-facebook-groups/For bloggers, entrepreneurs, and Facebook Marketers. Check out the listhttp://blogbusinesssummit.com/2007/07/the-ultimate-list-of-facebook-groups-for-blogger...Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-26-twitter-should-separate-personal-streams-and-business-streams/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-26-twitter-should-separate-personal-streams-and-business-streams/I like Twitter. I like having conversations with people line by line. It's a lot more personal, immediate, and direct than blogging, which is fun. But I thin...Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-24-youtube-debate-questions-thats-freaking-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-24-youtube-debate-questions-thats-freaking-cool/Have you guys seen the newshttp://jayslacks.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-sony-from-jayslacks-stop-it.html that CNN is going to host a debate where presidential ca...Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-23-only-in-america-is-it-bad-to-be-healthy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-23-only-in-america-is-it-bad-to-be-healthy/Image: health care comichttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/07/23/only-in-america-is-it-bad-to-be-healthy/health-care-comic/ "health care comic"In th...Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-22-visiting-snoqualmie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-22-visiting-snoqualmie/My friend had his birthday party last night out in Snoqualmie - his mom has a great house right on a river...it's beautiful: Image: Riverhttp://www.jason-pre...Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-20-my-official-list-of-harry-potter-predictions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-20-my-official-list-of-harry-potter-predictions/Image: Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsI figure now, mere hours before the widespread release of the last Harry Potter book, is a good time to make my of...Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-19-abstinance-only-education/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-19-abstinance-only-education/Interesting conversation at Liberal College Kidhttp://liberalcollegekid.com/2007/07/18/abstinence-only-education-because-not-talking-about-sex-means-kids-won...Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-19-wordpresscom-plugin-for-facebook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-19-wordpresscom-plugin-for-facebook/The Wordpress.com news blog, which I never read, recently made a posthttp://wordpress.com/blog/2007/07/18/facebook/ announcing a Wordpress.com plug-in for Fa...Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-18-jason-preston-gore-is-all-over-my-google/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-18-jason-preston-gore-is-all-over-my-google/It irks me that in the past year Jason Preston Gore has supplanted my Google spot. It should probably annoy me more that some people probably come across thi...Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-18-news-via-twitter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-18-news-via-twitter/This explosionhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/19/1184559904559.html?from=top5 in New York is interesting enough as news, but it's way neat to see i...Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-18-vista-for-video-games-compatibility-and-features/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-18-vista-for-video-games-compatibility-and-features/Image: Vista LogoI'm listening to the PC Gamer Podcast and hearing the little jabs at Vista that are almost inevitable when you decide to charge gamers anoth...Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-17-dow-jones-tentatively-agreed-to-murdochs-offer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-17-dow-jones-tentatively-agreed-to-murdochs-offer/I have one particularly eloquent thing to add to this articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/business/media/17dow.html?r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin in the NYT...Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-17-steam-returns-supreme-commander-from-the-grave/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-17-steam-returns-supreme-commander-from-the-grave/Image: Supreme CommanderThe motherboard for my crazy self-built new gaming righttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/05/03/my-new-beastie/ came with a c...Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-13-badgerbadgerbadger/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-13-badgerbadgerbadger/My former roommate Ethan and I have decided it's high time we wrote hilarious guest articles on one another's blogs. We picked the same topic and went to tow...Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-12-im-82-addicted-to-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-12-im-82-addicted-to-blogging/According to some stranger with funny graphics, rounded corners, and a quick quiz: 82%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?http://mingle2.com/blog-addictionThu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-12-mucking-about-with-themes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-12-mucking-about-with-themes/If you actually read my blog in a web browser, please bear with the changing visuals. Just playing around.Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-12-nintendo-continues-to-think-outside-the-box-use-your-ds-lite-at-a-mariners-game/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-12-nintendo-continues-to-think-outside-the-box-use-your-ds-lite-at-a-mariners-game/Image: DS baseball smThe article in the Seattle Timeshttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003785404interactivefans12.html notes how "lit...Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-am-i-better-off-not-being-at-e3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-am-i-better-off-not-being-at-e3/Asassin's Creed was ridiculously good! Like POWPOW to the nth degree. So was crysis and bio shock. And a few other awedome games. Oh the new tony hawk is goo...Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-any-movie-without-an-online-trailer-is-shooting-itself-in-the-foot/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-any-movie-without-an-online-trailer-is-shooting-itself-in-the-foot/I realize that the reason I cant find an online version of the trailer for The Dark is Rising is probably because the trailer was just made. But on the other...Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-can-sony-revive-the-psp-the-ps3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-can-sony-revive-the-psp-the-ps3/Image: sonyhome.jpgI've been in the habit, over the past year, of bashing Sony for practically every decision their gaming division has made. The PSP has bee...Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-take-a-survey-and-get-in-a-drawing-for-200-off-our-conference/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-11-take-a-survey-and-get-in-a-drawing-for-200-off-our-conference/Everybody hates surveys, which is why we're putting everyone who takes this survey in a drawing to get a $200 discount for our Chicago conference. We need to...Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-10-everybody-do-the-blogtip-or-something-less-cheezy-but-equally-useful/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-10-everybody-do-the-blogtip-or-something-less-cheezy-but-equally-useful/Image: BlogTips PicJust yesterday we Blog Business Summit folks launched our little BlogTips Facebook Applicationhttp://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php...Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-09-email-signatures/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-09-email-signatures/I am a huge sucker for sparsity. Have you ever been in one of those retail stores that has only two shelves, and yet still manages to stock everything you're...Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-08-sony-finally-drops-the-price-on-the-ps3-trainwreck-decides-to-introduce-a-new-expensive-model-just-in-case/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-08-sony-finally-drops-the-price-on-the-ps3-trainwreck-decides-to-introduce-a-new-expensive-model-just-in-case/Ok, so that's not quite the way Sony phrased it, but according to the New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/business/09sony.html?ref=business Sony ...Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-08-vista-mce-wont-let-me-list-both-hdtv-and-cable-channels-at-the-same-time/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-08-vista-mce-wont-let-me-list-both-hdtv-and-cable-channels-at-the-same-time/I realized a few days ago that the HDTV channels I had listed in MCE mysteriously disappeared sometime in the past weeks. The channels from basic cable are s...Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-06-whats-fun-about-twitter-is-whats-fun-about-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-06-whats-fun-about-twitter-is-whats-fun-about-blogging/I've posted beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/02/20/twitter-is-not-for-me/ about not understanding why people like Twitterhttp://twitter.com/...Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-05-the-orange-box/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-05-the-orange-box/I know it's a little bit early to get all excited about Half-Life 2 Episode 2, but I'm excited anyway. I've been a Valve fanboy for years, ever since my frie...Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-04-acceptable-in-the-80s/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-04-acceptable-in-the-80s/I am entranced by this song.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-03-how-to-run-tie-fighter-collectors-cd-edition-on-windows-xp/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-03-how-to-run-tie-fighter-collectors-cd-edition-on-windows-xp/I originally wrote this how-to for Flicker Gaming, my now-defunct video game blog. Enjoy. That's right; it's possible. I've seen it. I've done it. And it's e...Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-02-prepare-yourself-for-transformers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-02-prepare-yourself-for-transformers/I write better posts when I use TextEdit, or Notepad. Not Word. Word has too many buttons. I'm constantly worried that I might accidentally click something t...Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-01-balls-boys/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-07-01-balls-boys/Aren't ball boys funny? We live in a society that has invented technology for everything from clearing rain from our car windshields to launching beer from a...Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-29-facebook-apps-waste-of-time-nope-still-good/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-29-facebook-apps-waste-of-time-nope-still-good/If there is such a thing as an internet tizzy, it's happening right now all over Facebook's pimply app-ridden face. When Facebook opened it's doors to the wo...Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-28-boston-legal/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-28-boston-legal/I've been plugging merrily along through season 2 of Boston Legal this past few days. I think I watched the first episode on Friday and now I'm on number 25 ...Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-27-my-obligatory-iphone-post/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-27-my-obligatory-iphone-post/Right now, literally two thirds of the planet is writing a blog post or a news article about Apple's upcoming iPhone. I think it's funny that this is happeni...Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-27-watching-a-litle-wimbledon/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-27-watching-a-litle-wimbledon/I've been watching some of the Wimbledon coverage today, which is really just coverage from earlier being replayed because it's raining in London. But that's...Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-25-missing-hard-drive-space-in-windows-vista/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-25-missing-hard-drive-space-in-windows-vista/UPDATE: I Fixed the problem on my computer. Thanks to Belal's suggestion down below, I reduced the "missing" gap of HDD space to 6GB, which is both fine and ...Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-22-the-cool-part-of-online-music/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-22-the-cool-part-of-online-music/As with any technological change there will be people who long for the good old days of records. There were little stores full of records, and if you wanted ...Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-21-new-york-times-quote-is-good-today/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-21-new-york-times-quote-is-good-today/Rarely do I see a quote of this quality in the "Quote of the day" section of my e-mail: - QUOTATION OF THE DAY - "A billionaire is like a mastodon: He gets e...Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-20-working-beeping-r2-d2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-20-working-beeping-r2-d2/Holy crap. I want one. They're only $129http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/9447/.Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-19-what-do-you-know-about-gold-farming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-19-what-do-you-know-about-gold-farming/It's been months since I've logged in to World of Warcraft. I quit my subscription and washed my hands of that addictive mess, just like I did a few years ea...Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-18-editorial-direction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-18-editorial-direction/This blog has always been a sort of editorial grab-bag in that you never know if I'll be talking about business, video games, politics, or delusional chicken...Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-17-projects-galore-this-weekend/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-17-projects-galore-this-weekend/I'm one of those guys who is constantly doing something, even when I'm not doing anything. This weekend has been mostly nice and relaxing because I've been a...Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-14-create-invent-recreate/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-14-create-invent-recreate/I've always thought the great ideas just keep circling through the system until they work. I was reading Fred Wilson's posthttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2007/05/m...Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-13-waiting-for-my-wireless-mouse/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-13-waiting-for-my-wireless-mouse/About 4pm yesterday I decided that there's no way I want to run around all day every day using the touchpad on this laptop. Either I'm just not wired to use ...Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-12-wwdc-speech-steve-jobs-introduces-a-vista-feature/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-12-wwdc-speech-steve-jobs-introduces-a-vista-feature/OK so that's probably a misleading title. I just found some of the new "Leopard" features to be amusing: 1. Stacks: this is something that basically exists i...Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-11-double-whoops-wired-att/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-11-double-whoops-wired-att/Today AT&T has a gigantic half-screen ad on Wired.com that makes it impossible to read the page or, in some cases, to know what it is that you can't read. He...Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-09-daft-hands/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-09-daft-hands/My friend Adam's friend's friend is that right? made this video. It it awestome. Make sure you watch at least a minute and a half.Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-08-trailer-for-the-ten/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-08-trailer-for-the-ten/Every now and then I see a trailer for a movie that so freakin' hilarious I need to see it immediately. Unfortunately this one comes out in August. Ethanhttp...Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-06-mildly-annoyed-at-feedburnergoogle-reader/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-06-mildly-annoyed-at-feedburnergoogle-reader/When I use Google Reader always, I like to right-click and grab URLs of posts I want to link to, but when I grab posts from, say, Fred Wilson, it gives me th...Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-06-when-do-you-lose-your-enthusiasm/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-06-when-do-you-lose-your-enthusiasm/Some people, like my grandmother, will never be scared of new things. She has a hyper-complex setup that copies files through about eighteen computers to bac...Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-02-translations/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-06-02-translations/I can't decide if I like the way German authors write, or if I like the way German-English translators write. The two pieces that I've read by German authors...Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-31-cars-and-more-cars/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-31-cars-and-more-cars/With my brother and my cousin both looking to get a car soon OK, not that soon, but they're full of ideas as to what cars they'll want, Ethan having gotten a...Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-30-folklife-2007/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-30-folklife-2007/This last Monday I went to Folklife in Seattle, mostly to watch my brother Conrad perform in two different Hungarian Folk Dancing groups. As usual Seattle Ce...Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-29-leopard-tamer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-29-leopard-tamer/Did you see the story today about a man in Jerusalem who wrestled a leopard to the ground in his underwear? Man subdues leaping leopardhttp://seattletimes.nw...Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-29-thank-you-journalism-class-now-im-a-snob/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-29-thank-you-journalism-class-now-im-a-snob/I credit my journalism class for my newfound journalism snobbery. In the few days that I've been back to Seattle, I've decided that most of the journalism in...Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-28-what-have-i-got-in-my-pocketses/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-28-what-have-i-got-in-my-pocketses/Now that I'm home again and, more importantly, no longer going to spending all day walking around a college campus in shady areas of LA, I've decided to re-a...Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-24-now-thats-entertainment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-24-now-thats-entertainment/It's amusing to me that most people think that something has to have value or meaning before they can appreciate it. I hear it all the time: "I thought Bad B...Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-21-occidental-class-of-2007/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-21-occidental-class-of-2007/Image: Grad thingieIn a moment of rare complete self-congratulation: congratulations to myself, and everyone else in the Occidental class of 2007, for gradua...Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-18-the-dead-baby-experiment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-18-the-dead-baby-experiment/Have you ever thought about how disturbing some of our science experiments must be? Everyone's heard the "fun fact" that babies need attention to survive. We...Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-17-catching-up-on-my-fred-wilson/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-17-catching-up-on-my-fred-wilson/One of the reasons I love to read A VC is that Fred frequently inspires some really interesting debates. A few days ago he made a posthttp://feeds.feedburner...Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-17-im-not-buying-an-xbox-360-because-my-hd-dvd-repair-experience-has-been-crap/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-17-im-not-buying-an-xbox-360-because-my-hd-dvd-repair-experience-has-been-crap/I think I've decided that if I can avoid it, I'm going to skip the 360. Looking back over my posts about how thoroughly Sony has screwed up the PS3, and how ...Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-15-go-blu-ray/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-15-go-blu-ray/I'm thoroughly turned off to HD-DVD. My "fixed" drive showed up in the mail today and...guess what? It doesn't work. I've now spent a month and a bazillion p...Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-15-pay-parking-tickets-online-duh/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-15-pay-parking-tickets-online-duh/I just paid my Santa Monica parking ticket through their online system. It was pretty simple, straightforward, and a hell of a lot more convenient than writi...Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-13-back-from-vegas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-13-back-from-vegas/I'll have a longer post on Vegas later - I'm planning on writing up some sort of short-form nonfiction about the experience. It was a lot of fun. I came back...Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-13-best-ical-add-on-ever-set-a-default-alarm-with-icalfix/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-13-best-ical-add-on-ever-set-a-default-alarm-with-icalfix/The whole point of putting appointments in to a computer calendar is that when I'm sitting in front of it wasting my life away, a little window will pop up f...Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-13-tracking-the-hd-dvd-drive/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-13-tracking-the-hd-dvd-drive/As much as I love UPS, it's little things like 6-day 3-day delivery that allows me to give them shit. By now I'm pretty sure that the HD drive I get back is ...Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-10-finding-blog-central/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-10-finding-blog-central/It still bugs me that there's no good way to figure out which blogs are at the center of their own niche community. When I started Flicker two years ago, I k...Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-10-microsoft-support-timeline-for-my-hd-dvd-drive-f/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-10-microsoft-support-timeline-for-my-hd-dvd-drive-f/Image: 360 HD DVDRecently I had an awesome experience with customer support. I had a problem with my projector, called in to Sharp, and they told me where to...Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-08-dual-core-double-heat/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-08-dual-core-double-heat/I've been trying to figure out, in the past few days, why my processor seems to be running extra-hot. According to PC Probe II, the utility that came with my...Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-08-griffith-park-fire-looks-crazy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-08-griffith-park-fire-looks-crazy/I've been watching the plume of smoke feel its way along the sky today, turning everything orange in the afternoon and fading to a dismal glow at night. It's...Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-04-nobody-told-me-dish-towels-were-like-socks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-04-nobody-told-me-dish-towels-were-like-socks/When I first moved into this place down here in LA my grandmother generously sent me about fifteen dish towels, which I thought was just her being excessive ...Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-03-my-new-beastie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-03-my-new-beastie/Image: BeastieMy old beast is now four years old, and is retiring. It's a gigantic Dell Dimension XPS, which is basically a humongous and very heavy case wit...Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-02-how-to-remove-misspelled-words-from-firefox-on-a-mac/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-02-how-to-remove-misspelled-words-from-firefox-on-a-mac/I noticed that the tutorials for doing this are all for the PC version of Firefox, which is wonderful and useful, but the file path doesn't line up for the M...Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-02-the-unfortunate-shortage-of-grad-tickets/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-02-the-unfortunate-shortage-of-grad-tickets/I'm pretty sure the Oxy graduation ceremony is happening outside--this is LA after all--which means that it's very unlikely the whole football stadium will f...Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-01-dvi-vs-vga/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-05-01-dvi-vs-vga/The way I'm currently set up, I have my old beastly desktop hooked in to the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse that I use for my MacBook Pro when they're bot...Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-30-bleh/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-30-bleh/I showed up to campus early today so that I would have time, before going to class, to check my mail for the hard drive that is supposed to be delivered toda...Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-30-mac-crash-post-1/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-30-mac-crash-post-1/My MacBook Pro just crashed again. I got the little black box that says, in about four languages "you must restart your computer." That makes four days since...Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-28-the-secret-to-being-intelligent/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-28-the-secret-to-being-intelligent/Have you ever noticed that people appear more intelligent when they imply things instead of stating them explicitly? I noticed this when I was in High School...Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-27-good-god-of-war-ii/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-27-good-god-of-war-ii/A week or so ago I was idly writing an article lamenting the fact that there aren't any video games aside from, say, Guitar Hero that I'm really excited abou...Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-27-provantage-instant-shipping/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-27-provantage-instant-shipping/Image: Antec SoloI'm in the process of building a new gaming beast. My previous beast is now a dinosaur, struggling to pump Counter-Strike: Source out on a 1...Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-26-cripes-it-crashes-a-lot/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-26-cripes-it-crashes-a-lot/I don't know what it is that I'm doing that makes OSX hate me so much, but this laptop crashes ALL THE FREAKING TIME. It just crashed for the second time tod...Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-26-we-were-dead-before-the-ship-even-sank/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-26-we-were-dead-before-the-ship-even-sank/Image: modest mouseI got the new Modest Mouse album for my birthday on Monday and I've been listening to it a lot since then. I like pretty much every song o...Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-24-communicating-with-new-technology/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-24-communicating-with-new-technology/One of the ironies of taking a class about new media technologies is that it is taking something that is inherently an individual activity browsing and parti...Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-24-george-washington/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-24-george-washington/My friend Jeff just showed me a sweet YouTube video. Lucky you, you get to see it too:Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-22-cell-phone-expenses/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-22-cell-phone-expenses/I had one of those moments today when I took a moment to think about something, and was surprised by what I noticed: I pay over $50 a month for my cell phone...Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-22-eeek-these-are-pro-gun-arguments/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-22-eeek-these-are-pro-gun-arguments/Now let me start this off by saying that I'm OK with allowing US Citizens to own guns. I'm not sure I can defend that viewpoint, because I think it's incredi...Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-22-good-writing-in-the-sunday-opinion-section/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-22-good-writing-in-the-sunday-opinion-section/I picked up the Sunday LA Times today mostly because of the Blue Angels picture on the front page - really sad news about the crash, and I just finished comb...Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-20-video-games-are-not-the-anti-christ/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-20-video-games-are-not-the-anti-christ/It's sick that in the wake of a huge tragedy like the shootings in Virginia there has to be a massive witch-hunt for the cultural scapegoat. We never look fo...Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-17-comps-completed/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-17-comps-completed/Officially, I passed comps. I got a B. Which, really, is just fine, because I still get to graduate.Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-17-how-to-present/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-17-how-to-present/At the moment I'm working on my "final" class presentation in the new media blogging class that I've been taking this semester at Oxy. What do I have to pres...Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-17-the-largest-shooting-in-american-history/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-17-the-largest-shooting-in-american-history/I tend to stay away from major major events like yesterday's shooting at Virginia Tech because I feel like there's very little I can add to a conversation th...Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-16-lotro-open-beta-it-exists/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-16-lotro-open-beta-it-exists/I didn't know about this until my friend pointed it out to me, but: Here you gohttp://www.lotro.com/index.php?pageid=119 Follow to Gamespot for an activation...Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-15-an-exercise-in-mac-vs-pc/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-15-an-exercise-in-mac-vs-pc/Since I bought this MacBook Pro in December, I've been using it basically full time for school, work, writing, and other things that generally fall into the ...Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-15-the-man-has-a-way-with-words/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-15-the-man-has-a-way-with-words/I'm charging ballistically through the Sunday LA Times because I bought it today and I want to read it before it becomes "old news"--at midnight. In the book...Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-13-grumble-atm-fees-grumble-grumble/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-13-grumble-atm-fees-grumble-grumble/I went to the Santa Anita racetrack last weekend without any cash, which was a stupid idea in retrospect, but, what can you do. I decided that I'd go ahead a...Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-13-haines-has-a-backside/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-13-haines-has-a-backside/So there's a residence hall not a dorm!! on campus that has this thing called the "annex." It's kind of this mystical place where only the people who are wor...Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-13-my-new-favorite-jingle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-13-my-new-favorite-jingle/My new favorite radio jingle is from some furniture warehouse. I don't know which one, and I don't know the whole thing, but the bit I remember goes like thi...Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-12-burning-a-dvd/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-12-burning-a-dvd/Two hours before turning in read: presenting to an audience a half-hour documentary is no time to be figuring out how to burn it so that the edges of your vi...Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-12-my-creative-gap/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-12-my-creative-gap/I always write shorter things than I'm supposed to. It's true for my short stories, it's true for my screenplays, it's true for my academic papers. I think t...Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-11-twitter-re-visited/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-11-twitter-re-visited/A month or so ago I postedhttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2007/02/20/twitter-is-not-for-me/ that I didn't really understand what all the fuss was abou...Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-blogging-code-of-conduct/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-blogging-code-of-conduct/I don't really think I have anything salient or new to add to the debate about this being held herehttp://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/09/no-twinkie-badges-he...Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-holy-crap-google-booksearch-is-amazing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-holy-crap-google-booksearch-is-amazing/I just used Google booksearchhttp://books.google.com/ for the first time, and it worked perfectly. In fact, I'm kind of amazed that I haven't used it before ...Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-sarcasm-online/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-sarcasm-online/As Andrew Sparrow was pointing outhttp://teresacentric.com/2007/04/the-difference-between-writing-and-talking/ a while ago, there's a tremendous problem with...Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-the-beauties-of-wireless-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-10-the-beauties-of-wireless-internet/I'm hanging out at my friend Jeff's apartment, a whole twenty feet away from mine, and I'm still logged in to my own internet connection. Honestly I think it...Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-08-happy-birthday-ben/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-08-happy-birthday-ben/My friend Ben, who is now sitting next to me, turns 21 in about four minutes. Happy Birthday Benhttp://www.adlin.com.Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-07-gm-autos-global-warming-and-the-epa/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-07-gm-autos-global-warming-and-the-epa/Recently the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the right and the duty to regulate exhaust from motor vehicles in order to help clean up our air and reduce...Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-06-where-do-you-have-your-epiphanies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-06-where-do-you-have-your-epiphanies/I have a disproportionate amount of epiphanies in my car. This is why I have a small notepad that clips to the visor where most people keep CDs, so that when...Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-04-mozilla-plans-to-put-the-social-in-the-browser/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-04-mozilla-plans-to-put-the-social-in-the-browser/Over at the Mozilla Labs Bloghttp://labs.mozilla.com/2007/04/keep-track-of-your-friends-with-the-coop/, which I spotted via Startup Memehttp://startupmeme.co...Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-03-supreme-court-makes-sensible-ruling/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-03-supreme-court-makes-sensible-ruling/I'll let you read the New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/washington/03scotus.html?r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1175621367-bfqlLAp...Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-02-more-fun-with-dynamic-ads/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-02-more-fun-with-dynamic-ads/Google has this cool thing where big ad buyers can work out a way to stick keywords into their Adsense ads that show up on search results pages. Have you eve...Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-02-the-firewood-store/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-02-the-firewood-store/In about half an hour the people who insure this apartment building will be canvasing the different rooms, making sure that things are in order and there are...Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-02-whats-up-with-quote-of-the-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-02-whats-up-with-quote-of-the-day/On my Google homepage, the little Quote of the Day widget has showed me the same three quotes since Friday. Is anyone else seeing this glitch?Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-01-whats-your-april-fools-favorite/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-04-01-whats-your-april-fools-favorite/I've never been big on pranking people on April 1st. I'm just not very good at coming up with pranks that are the right level of funny. I worry that I'll end...Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-31-my-pants-are-exploding/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-31-my-pants-are-exploding/When I think about the changes that happen in language with new technologies, I think about how we "google" things now, or you can "skype" someone, or "mapqu...Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-30-materializing-cds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-30-materializing-cds/When I went to put a CD in my player this morning, I found a disc I'd never seen before. This thing is my alarm clock, and it sits next to my bed in my room....Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-28-so-busy-im-not-doing-things/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-28-so-busy-im-not-doing-things/It's always a bad sign when you get to the point where you have so many things to do that you spend an hour or so sitting around not doing any of them. This ...Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-26-all-along-the-watchtower-meets-bsg/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-26-all-along-the-watchtower-meets-bsg/As sweet as Bob Dylan is, and as sweet as the final Battlestar Galactica episode of this season is, WTF is with using All Along the Watchtower?Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-26-apparently-hbo-is-not-on-demand-at-dishnetwork/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-26-apparently-hbo-is-not-on-demand-at-dishnetwork/Guy, I just bought two months of HBO thinking that I was going to get the on-demand ability to catch up on the shows that are the whole reason you buy HBO in...Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-26-up-to-15-posts-on-the-page/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-26-up-to-15-posts-on-the-page/I've always stuck with the Wordpress default of 10 posts displayed on the front page because it seemed like a good solid number, and, after all, there are ar...Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-24-my-poor-eyes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-24-my-poor-eyes/Over the past few days, spring in LA has decided to let loose a storm of pollen or something that has made my eyes itch almost constantly for the past two da...Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-24-the-mouse-and-keyboard/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-24-the-mouse-and-keyboard/Computer can do bazillions of things that were really only dreams even just thirty or forty years ago. I'm listening to music on Rhapsody right now, which, w...Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-23-microblogging-suits-my-microthinking/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-23-microblogging-suits-my-microthinking/I'm all about microchunking things. At least thoughts. I think buying cell phone ringtones for $3 when you can get the whole song for $0.99 is silly. But I t...Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-23-my-lazy-computing-habits/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-23-my-lazy-computing-habits/I used to ctrl-click to open new tabs in Firefox whenever I was reading something with a link in it. That would open the new tab in the background so i could...Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-23-originality-is-overrated/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-23-originality-is-overrated/You don't have to be original to be successful. You just have to be faster than 90% of the people out there, and you have to have good execution. I'm pretty ...Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-21-my-latest-in-the-oxy-weekly/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-21-my-latest-in-the-oxy-weekly/For the first time ever, Occidental's weekly newspaper is putting its articles online. Which means that this week I can actually link to the article I wrote ...Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-20-flipsyde/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-20-flipsyde/Yesterday I found an e-mail that I sent to myself about a month ago, which said simply "new band: flypside." So, trusting my own taste in music, I went and p...Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-20-themed-google-homepage-interesting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-20-themed-google-homepage-interesting/I've always liked the simplicity of Google's pages. Way back in the day the Google home page couldn't get much simpler - logo and a search box. Then they gav...Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-19-two-random-thoughts-for-a-monday-afternoon/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-19-two-random-thoughts-for-a-monday-afternoon/1 It's been a long time since I listened to Counting Crows, and they're really good. 2 There's something about the taste of a good english muffin, toasted, w...Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-18-casino-royale-gets-better-every-time-i-watch-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-18-casino-royale-gets-better-every-time-i-watch-it/Even though I liked the movie, I had several problemshttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/11/17/a-quick-review-casino-royale/ with Casino Royale the f...Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-18-some-kid-made-a-fusion-reactor/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-18-some-kid-made-a-fusion-reactor/Apparently, according to Wired's Gadget Labhttp://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/highschoolstu.html, some High School kid made a working fusion reactor at ho...Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-16-rss-overload/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-16-rss-overload/I know this happens to everyone who, as I do, compulsively signs up to RSS feeds whenever they're available. "I'll read this now," I think, "because it's in ...Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-16-unreasonably-pissed-off/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-16-unreasonably-pissed-off/I've been waiting all damn day for my repaired projector to get delivered, which means sitting in my room NOT doing other shit that I NEED to be doing, just ...Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-15-a-poll-i-dont-expect-anyone-to-answer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-15-a-poll-i-dont-expect-anyone-to-answer/Everybody knows that you're not supposed to pick your nose in public. But at the same time, everybody does, sometimes in public. But...where do you put it? U...Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-12-google-quotes-today-are-awesome/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-12-google-quotes-today-are-awesome/I have the "quote of the day" widget on my Google homepage, and today's quotes are awesome, all three of them: About the most originality that any writer can...Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-09-quick-review-300/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-09-quick-review-300/Image: 300logoI just got back from 300. It's two hours of softcore war porn. Intensely homo-erotic. Insanely violent. Impressively corny. And damn good enter...Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-09-sharp-customer-service/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-09-sharp-customer-service/So far so good. Two nights ago my projector decided to stop working for no particular reason. In the middle of watching Jericho with my roommate, the thing j...Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-08-newscorp-and-other-media-need-to-use-youtube-not-crush-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-08-newscorp-and-other-media-need-to-use-youtube-not-crush-it/NewsCorp is not the first, nor will it be the last, media giant to try to create a video platform to oust YouTubehttp://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960703....Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-07-1105/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-07-1105/"Parking Enforcement" AKA "I can't find anything useful to do in life so I'm going to make other people miserable" ticketed me today at 11:05 for being in a ...Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-07-solving-the-newspaper-subscription-crisis-with-plastic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-07-solving-the-newspaper-subscription-crisis-with-plastic/I was thinking about the dropping numbers of newspaper circulation everywhere as I bought today's LA Times at the store. I'm part of the problem - I don't su...Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-06-scott-adams-has-google-alerts-on-dilbert/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-06-scott-adams-has-google-alerts-on-dilbert/According to Scott Adams' recent posthttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/thedilbertblog/2007/03/toofrickincoo.html, he set up some Google Alerts for they keywords...Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-05-theater-on-demand/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-05-theater-on-demand/A Wired plug on my Google Homepage caught my attention today: Movies on demand, at the Movieshttp://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/I/INSTANTFILMS?SITE=WIRE&S...Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-02-some-one-should-invent-the-dr-mario-button/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-02-some-one-should-invent-the-dr-mario-button/Image: dr mario buttonSometimes I don't really understand the way my mind works, but it amuses me, so I keep it around. I was working on my screenplay when I...Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-01-blogging-101-3-how-do-i-write-a-good-post-title/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-01-blogging-101-3-how-do-i-write-a-good-post-title/Image: question-markSeveral weeks ago I started a series of ten posts explaining some of the fundamentals of good blogging. You can find last week's post her...Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-01-should-the-la-times-be-a-local-paper/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-03-01-should-the-la-times-be-a-local-paper/Image: latimeslogoAbsolutely not. Tuesday night's Frontline presentation on the news media featured a section on the LA Times, and the current, possibly idio...Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-28-fair-use-bill-pointless/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-28-fair-use-bill-pointless/According to Ars Technicahttp://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070227-8934.html, the bill absolutely fails to provide anything useful to consumers: Yet agai...Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-28-fake-currency-for-e-mail-what-a-horrible-idea/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-28-fake-currency-for-e-mail-what-a-horrible-idea/I don't know about anyone else, but I think this WoW-inspired Attenthttp://news.com.com/2100-10383-6162798.html system is a bad idea: Known as Attent, Serios...Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-23-blogging-101-tip-2-always-include-a-picture/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-23-blogging-101-tip-2-always-include-a-picture/Image: FameLast week I decided to start a series of posts explaining the obvious non-obvious fundamentals of blogging. It's a series of ten tips, and if you ...Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-22-at-whistler/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-22-at-whistler/I'm out at Whistler this week and internet access is scarce, so posting will be light.Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-22-i-took-the-right-class/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-22-i-took-the-right-class/Sometime in early January, before I started this semester of school, I drafted the beginning to a post creatively titled The Humorous Essay: I think that my ...Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-21-wheres-that-damn-cd/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-21-wheres-that-damn-cd/The quiet snap of a button launches a tray from the odd looking box on your desk. A long row of white CD sleeves stares upward, numbered but not labeled. Fli...Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-20-studio-60-makes-me-want-to-write-and-other-thoughts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-20-studio-60-makes-me-want-to-write-and-other-thoughts/It's ironic I guess that I'm surrounded right now by things that make me want to write, or force me to, somehow or another, and I can't find any real inspira...Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-20-twitter-is-not-for-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-20-twitter-is-not-for-me/As an extension to the ideas bouncing aroundhttp://blogbusinesssummit.com/2007/02/commercializing.htm over at the BBS blog, I thought I'd explain why I'm not...Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-19-caffeine-really-keeps-me-up/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-19-caffeine-really-keeps-me-up/Caffeine works on me. Mostly because I don't usually have a lot of it, and also I think drugs that keep you awake and drugs that put you to sleep both work o...Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-19-in-house-linking/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-19-in-house-linking/Wouldn't it be cool if you could link to things on your computer the way you can link to pages and posts on the internet? I was just making a list in Stickie...Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-19-samus-statue/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-19-samus-statue/Image: samusI can't say that I'm a really big Metroid Prime fan, but I do find this amusing. From the press release: This version is based on the Zero Suit s...Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-18-silly-site-statistics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-18-silly-site-statistics/I was doing some quick checking on some statistics that I'm writing up, and site statistics can do some weird things when you're not looking. I used to check...Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-17-reading-non-fiction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-17-reading-non-fiction/The funny thing about reading non-fiction is that it almost always makes me want to write. As everyone who makes a habit of writing knows, there are times wh...Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-16-grindhous-trailer-contest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-16-grindhous-trailer-contest/The new "Grindhous" double feature from Tarantino and Rodruiguez I probably just misspelled both of those, didn't I? apparently has a fake trailer contest ru...Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-16-lounge-chair-journalism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-16-lounge-chair-journalism/I'm reading a book called Letters to a Young Journalisthttp://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Journalist-Art-Mentoring/dp/0465024556/sr=8-1/qid=1171657934/ref=p...Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-15-blogging-101-the-basics-of-good-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-15-blogging-101-the-basics-of-good-blogging/Image: blogging101As I spend more time talking to people who are new to blogging, I'm realizing that there are a lot of basic concepts and questions that I t...Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-15-so-damn-busy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-15-so-damn-busy/This is easily the busiest semester I've ever had. I'd guess it's because I'm essentially working three jobs running CS3 review, writing for the Escapist, an...Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-13-good-british-comedy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-13-good-british-comedy/Image: jesusofficeSometimes there's really nothing better than good British sketch comedy. My roommate Ethanhttp://www.rabidspacedog.com pointed me to Big Tr...Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-13-have-you-heard-of-techmeme/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-13-have-you-heard-of-techmeme/This is not a post on how I just discovered Techmemehttp://www.techmeme.com. This is a post that will make other people go "holy crap, what's Techmeme?" Tech...Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-12-manifesto-games-interview/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-12-manifesto-games-interview/I was writing an article this weekend where I made a reference to an interview I did with Greg Costikyan of Manifesto Games. The interview was a feature for ...Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-11-picking-a-topic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-11-picking-a-topic/One of the hardest parts about writing, and blogging in particular, is picking a topic to write about. This is why I frequently cheat and write about writing...Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-11-the-politics-of-24/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-11-the-politics-of-24/I started watching 24 this season for the firs time ever. This year at least, it's a phenomenally dramatic show that manages to hit a lot of the "privacy vs ...Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-09-airport-update-problems/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-09-airport-update-problems/My laptop has been offline since I tried to install the newest AirPort update last night. After installing the update and rebooting, I couldn't connect to th...Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-08-who-killed-the-electric-car/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-08-who-killed-the-electric-car/Image: EV1I just got done watching this documentary, and it's a very good movie. Part of the reason I picked it up is that my big big project before I gradua...Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-07-error-on-last-sync-solution-for-missing-sync-for-window-mobile-5/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-07-error-on-last-sync-solution-for-missing-sync-for-window-mobile-5/I've been dealing with a syncing problem between my phone and my Mac for about a month now, and I finally got tired of not having my contacts synced up. I me...Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-07-gamertag-woes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-07-gamertag-woes/So I finally decided that with Microsoft introducing their Live Anywhere service to track Games for Windows games and everything, I'd get off my lazy ass and...Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-06-audio-essay-now-called-thoughtcast/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-06-audio-essay-now-called-thoughtcast/I remember deciding in class that I thought the term "audio essay" meant "inherently boring," so I'm going to go ahead and call my audio essay assignment a "...Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-06-le-grand-content/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-06-le-grand-content/There's something called "The Long Tail" that's a bit hard to explain. But this YouTube video is a perfect example of the Long Tail of social media and socia...Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-05-have-you-heard-of-the-real-id-act/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-05-have-you-heard-of-the-real-id-act/I first heard about this thing about a week ago when I was reading the LA times with my friend Ben. Actually, he was reading the LA times while I was playing...Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-05-it-was-a-good-superbowl-party/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-05-it-was-a-good-superbowl-party/I think we had over 30 people over at the same time. The food was good. The people were fun. The game was entertaining. Image: bowlcrowdMon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-03-google-pushes-personalize-search/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-03-google-pushes-personalize-search/Personalized search is one road into the future of finding. Google is betting on ithttp://searchengineland.com/070202-224617.php pretty hard, which means it'...Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-01-carnival-of-gamers-21-it-can-drink-now/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-02-01-carnival-of-gamers-21-it-can-drink-now/Promote the Carnival: DIGG THIShttp://digg.com/gamingnews/CarnivalofGamers21Itcandrinknow! Image: carnival The way I see it, February is the perfect carnival...Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-31-guess-what-the-nyt-thinks-the-wii-is-more-fun-than-the-ps3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-31-guess-what-the-nyt-thinks-the-wii-is-more-fun-than-the-ps3/I'm far too lazy to go look up and link all the posts I've written here and at Flicker over the past six or seven months about how Nintendo made a far smarte...Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-30-selling-monitors-pretty-cheap/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-30-selling-monitors-pretty-cheap/I've got a 19-inch Dell LCD monitor that's about three and a half years old that I'm trying to sell for $150, and a 17-inch LCD Samsung SyncMaster for $125. ...Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-30-social-isnt-limited-to-text/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-30-social-isnt-limited-to-text/I remember about two or three months ago I was listening to the Gillmor Gang back when it still existed and they were talking about how the whole idea of "ge...Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-29-how-many-entries-makes-a-carnival/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-29-how-many-entries-makes-a-carnival/I'm proud to say that the February Carnival of Gamers will be making it's stop here at Jason-Preston.com on the first of February. I'm excited to be hosting ...Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-29-mac-people-what-is-this-key/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-29-mac-people-what-is-this-key/I love keyboard shortcuts. I use them all the time. But I cannot figure out what the little "^" key is. It's not SHIFT + 6, it's not 6...it's not SHIFT... An...Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-29-using-only-google-docs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-29-using-only-google-docs/My MacBook Pro came with a free trial copy of Microsoft Office when I got it back in early January, and ever since it's been counting down the days of free u...Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-27-new-intel-chip-technology-already/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-27-new-intel-chip-technology-already/By now, I have close to no idea how the innards of a computer work. There was a point about 10 years ago, where I thought I had some idea about what was actu...Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-27-the-social-web/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-27-the-social-web/!http://farm1.static.flickr.com/86/26469903360a935ee2dm.jpghttp://flickr.com/photos/dinamehta/264699033/I mentioned briefly a few days ago that I would start...Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-26-holding-calls/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-26-holding-calls/You know when you call a number where you have to wait for 40 minutes to speak to a human, like Disneyland or Bill Gates' house? I wonder if anyone has ever ...Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-26-service-matters/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-26-service-matters/It's amazing to me how much of a difference it makes in a service business when the employees care whether or not they make a good impression. People seem to...Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-25-ichat-pulled-a-houdini-with-my-buddy-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-25-ichat-pulled-a-houdini-with-my-buddy-list/Update: it appears to have been an AIM glitch, I got my list back! now i'm going to back it up... You remember last month when iTunes randomly decided to gli...Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-24-my-last-classes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-24-my-last-classes/Overall my last semester of classes at Oxy seem like they make a pretty good schedule. By now I've had the first round of each of these, and since two of the...Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-23-shortage-of-syncing-solutions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-23-shortage-of-syncing-solutions/I've been looking for a little while for a good way to sync my Mac with my Windows Mobile based phone, but as far as I can tell there are only two options fo...Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-22-consoles-too-good-for-their-own-good/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-22-consoles-too-good-for-their-own-good/Image: xblI think that gamertags and gamerscore are two of the best ideas that Microsoft has brought to the gaming table. A gigantic all-encompassing competi...Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-22-worries-of-a-hypochondriac/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-22-worries-of-a-hypochondriac/Have you ever gone to bed wondering if you're going to wake up in the morning? One of the side effects of letting every little injury drive you mentally insa...Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-21-my-new-setup/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-21-my-new-setup/I sometimes spend more time arranging my things than actually using them. Like this site, I constantly want to reorganize my room or my desk or my kitchen. I...Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-20-10-essential-apps-for-the-new-mac-user/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-20-10-essential-apps-for-the-new-mac-user/Image: apple logoAs regular readers of my blog already know, I went out and purchased a MacBook Pro at the end of December. This is step one in a massive re-...Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-19-back-in-la-patrick-stewart-on-extras/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-19-back-in-la-patrick-stewart-on-extras/It's been a busy couple of not-busy days. I flew back down to LA the day before yesterday, and I've spent most of the time since then catching up with friend...Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-16-so-much-snow/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-16-so-much-snow/When I got up this morning it was still snowing outside. We probably had about an inch at my house this morning, which is insane, since there was still some ...Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-15-replace-your-ugly-new-cs3-icon/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-15-replace-your-ugly-new-cs3-icon/!http://dominik.atknet.sk/storage/cs3/preview.pngI've been keeping an eye on the buzz around Adobe's public peta for CS3, and most of it has come down basica...Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-14-i-love-conans-iphone-commercial/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-14-i-love-conans-iphone-commercial/From what I hear, this hilarious "commercial" aired on Conan recently. I love the way that absolutely nothing is off-limits for good comedy. Found it via TUA...Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-14-seahawks-the-most-ref-cheated-team-in-football-history/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-14-seahawks-the-most-ref-cheated-team-in-football-history/Image: hasselbeckI know that everyone expects the Seahawks fans to feel cheated in a game like the one we just lost 27-24 in overtime, so I'm going to start ...Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-13-more-apple-more-iphone-and-more-business/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-13-more-apple-more-iphone-and-more-business/Dave Winer made a big long posthttp://www.scripting.com/2007/01/13.htmlyouDontNeedToLockUsIn today about business/consumer/media practices in general, and Ap...Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-11-counter-strike-bragging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-11-counter-strike-bragging/Yesterday when my sister called, she said that she'd had "more kills than deaths." Since I got the message through my Mom, I can only assume she was talking ...Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-11-snow-in-the-morning/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-11-snow-in-the-morning/When you basically live in LA for several years, you forget how cool it is to wake up and look outside your window and see this: Image: snowThu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-10-the-iphone-costs-too-much/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-10-the-iphone-costs-too-much/!http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/353408272fbcbb096d8m.jpghttp://flickr.com/photos/67621043@N00/353408272/From everything I've seen about Apple's crazy new...Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-10-three-cheers-for-moderation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-10-three-cheers-for-moderation/Image: us battleflagI just finished reading the book Empire, by Orson Scott Card. The book itself is good fiction and entertaining, well written and fairly p...Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-09-eek-i-cant-play-zelda/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-09-eek-i-cant-play-zelda/Before I left LA I saved my Zelda data to an SD card, which you can just stick in to the SD slot on any Wii. It's great that Nintendo went with an open stand...Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-09-video-podcasting-with-the-mbp/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-09-video-podcasting-with-the-mbp/I know it's incredibly late, but I'm having some fun with my new toys. Let's see if this works.Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-09-where-can-i-get-geometric-golfer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-09-where-can-i-get-geometric-golfer/Now that I have a mac, I think it's time for me to get two of my favorite games of all time. The first is Escape Velocityhttp://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/...Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-a-little-bit-of-montreal/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-a-little-bit-of-montreal/Ever since Fred Wilson posted a songhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/12/ofmontreal.html from the upcoming album Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?http://www....Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-hellgate-london-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-hellgate-london-again/Apparently this game is being shown on the CES floor today. Color me jealous of everyone who's there. Image: hellgate artMon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-performancing-you-ass/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-performancing-you-ass/I recently got an invitation via e-mail to link up with the guy who runs Performancing. I need to look that up and send him an e-mail, because I just install...Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-wired-on-the-future-of-mp3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-08-wired-on-the-future-of-mp3/Yes plzhttp://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72412-1.html?tw=wnstorypagenext1Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-07-the-product-or-the-sales-team/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-07-the-product-or-the-sales-team/I tend to be a big believer in the idea that the biggest contributor to a product's or service's success is, quite simply, its quality. In other words, it's ...Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-06-how-do-i-sync-my-t-mobile-sda-and-my-macbook-pro/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-06-how-do-i-sync-my-t-mobile-sda-and-my-macbook-pro/Part of what I'm doing as I start using this new laptop is moving all my e-mail, scheduling, and contacts management over to the Mac OS. This is mostly becau...Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-06-rain-is-awesome/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-06-rain-is-awesome/It's funny that even in Seattle, I'm one of the only people that really likes the rain. I think the problem is that most of the rain we get up here is more l...Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-05-which-safari-do-i-have/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-05-which-safari-do-i-have/I like having at least two browsers on my system. Aside from the fact that I need to be able to check the web pages I built in multiple browsers, having a se...Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-04-i-wouldnt-grade-on-a-rubric/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-04-i-wouldnt-grade-on-a-rubric/If I were ever to be a teacher or a professor, I would try very hard to avoid grading on a rubric. One of my classes recently had student presentations, and ...Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-04-the-comic-that-rocked/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-04-the-comic-that-rocked/I just got my new MacBook Pro, and it comes with an application called "Comic Life" already installed. Since I have many of my friends here with me tonight, ...Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-02-heroes-episodes-online/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-02-heroes-episodes-online/The first eleven episodes of Heroes can be found online from NBC: http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewind/fullepisodes/heroes.shtml I remember talking to someone rec...Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-02-initial-thoughts-on-the-ps3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2007-01-02-initial-thoughts-on-the-ps3/Image: ps3As if there weren't enough distractions lying around my place already, I walked into Best Buy on New Years Eve to find a gigantic stack of PS3s in ...Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-31-ces-2007-is-the-bloggers-ces/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-31-ces-2007-is-the-bloggers-ces/In the process of commenting out invites to the uber-cool blogger partyhttp://cesbloggers.com/the-blogger-reception-at-ces-2007 that the Blog Business Summit...Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-31-secret-projects-and-new-toys/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-31-secret-projects-and-new-toys/Image: logitech g5Because of a semi-secret secret project I'm working on with a friend of mine right now, I've been playing a lot more Counter-Strike than I ...Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-30-shiny-objects/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-30-shiny-objects/I'm writing this post from my brother's PSP, mostly because it was sitting nearby and the screen is shiny. The web browsing on this thing is pretty solid, bu...Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-29-my-invoice-receipt/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-29-my-invoice-receipt/Dear Apple Customer, Thank you for shopping at the Apple Store! If you have already paid for your purchase, please retain this invoice receipt for your recor...Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-28-geek-or-nerd-how-about-gerd/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-28-geek-or-nerd-how-about-gerd/Image: gerdUntil about a week ago I had no idea that there was such a widespread misunderstanding about the terms "Geek" and "Nerd." My sister, along with se...Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-27-rope-swings-and-travel-days/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-27-rope-swings-and-travel-days/I don't think that rope swings will ever go out of fashion, because they're just too much fun. My grandmother has an old one out in her back yard, and since ...Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-26-vader-sessions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-26-vader-sessions/This is probably the most hilarious video I've seen on YouTube. My friend Deb showed Ethan and I this thing a week or so ago, and since then I've watched it ...Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-25-merry-xmas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-25-merry-xmas/This post is late in coming 11:30 where I am, but I've had a full and busy day. I wonder when "Christmas" became "Xmas." I think it was around the time that ...Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-24-hunting-deer-with-a-bow/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-24-hunting-deer-with-a-bow/This morning I got up around 5:45 and went out to sit with my uncle in a blind waiting for some white tail deer. This is the first time I can remember gettin...Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-24-raise-the-driving-age/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-24-raise-the-driving-age/I realized suddenly today that I've reached the point where I think the driving age should be raised to 18. I came to this realization as I was being tossed ...Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-23-online-check-in-is-still-bullshit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-23-online-check-in-is-still-bullshit/Ah, the holidays. That time of year when everyone flies everywhere else. I'm actually secretly convinced that everyone plays a giant game of musical chairs, ...Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-22-t-mobile-sda-review/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-22-t-mobile-sda-review/This review has been a long time in coming mostly because I don't think it's a good idea to review a phone before you've had a good chance to put it through ...Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-21-video-via-broadband/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-21-video-via-broadband/Does anyone know if there's a way for two clients thousands of miles apart to watch a video feed simultaneously, with one or both clients able to control the...Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-21-where-do-you-do-your-writing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-21-where-do-you-do-your-writing/I all my blog posting in-browser. I do this despite the fact that I routinely lose half-completed posts to the nether of the internet, and I'm not really sur...Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-20-guitar-hero-ii-and-more-about-my-grandmother/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-20-guitar-hero-ii-and-more-about-my-grandmother/My grandmother has this old TV in her kitchen that she's shoved into a cabinet that is the perfect size for it. The problem is that she wanted to be able to ...Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-19-spaceman-dave/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-19-spaceman-dave/This last semester I took a course called Narrative Practices. Frankly, the class should be called "beginning screen writing," but I think that would be too ...Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-18-flying-coach/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-18-flying-coach/I like to fly coach. I think it's because I like to fly with other people and because I like to have something to bitch about. But mostly I just don't like t...Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-18-its-official-blogs-exist/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-18-its-official-blogs-exist/Last night my Grandmother, who is admittedly a little savvy for a grandmother, was telling me about some blogs. I think that means that blogs are officially ...Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-15-nintendo-nice-enough-to-help-out-idiot-gamers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-15-nintendo-nice-enough-to-help-out-idiot-gamers/Engadget tells mehttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/wiimote-straps-recalled-yeah-all-of-them/ that in response to all the breaking TVs from flung WiiMotes an...Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-14-google-reader-does-sharing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-14-google-reader-does-sharing/OK this is a feature I just found out about I know, I know...I'm behind the times, but Google Reader, which I currently use for my RSS addiction, allows me t...Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-14-oh-man-pizza-hut/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-14-oh-man-pizza-hut/I'm on the phone with Pizza Hut trying to order a pizza. The fact that i'm making a blog post while I'm on the phone should tell you something is wrong... It...Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-13-yahoo-gets-knocked-off-the-top-of-the-traffic-listbut-probably-not-for-long/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-13-yahoo-gets-knocked-off-the-top-of-the-traffic-listbut-probably-not-for-long/I just readhttp://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=20173&hed=Yahoo+Dethroned+By+MySpace that Fox has, with the help of Myspace OK largely because of Myspace...Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-12-macs-at-oxy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-12-macs-at-oxy/Last week's Oxy Weekly, the newspaper at Occidental College that has never been online, and probably never will be because the weekly staff is actually activ...Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-12-when-is-gmail-going-to-steal-word/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-12-when-is-gmail-going-to-steal-word/I just emailed myself a Word document. I grabbed the file in my Gmail account, and the options were "View as HTML | Download File." When is Google going to a...Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-10-human-knowledge/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-10-human-knowledge/I'm kind of fascinated by the idea of "human knowledge." I think whoever wrote Men In Black had this same preoccupation: KAY A person is smart. People are du...Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-09-the-breakdancing-glitch-in-gears-of-war-worth-a-chuckle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-09-the-breakdancing-glitch-in-gears-of-war-worth-a-chuckle/Ran across this videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJFVOnWMfIk&eurl= on YouTube from a few days ago.Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-08-solutions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-08-solutions/I just finished my huge ECLS final, and I think I can literally feel the gigantic knots in my back easing up a little. I have a week until my next and last t...Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-07-im-grinning-but-im-crying/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-07-im-grinning-but-im-crying/I just wrote a big post about the "iPhone" and this highly amusinghttp://news.com.com/2010-10413-6141607.html article, but because our school is retarted and...Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-06-linkedin-is-actually-pretty-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-06-linkedin-is-actually-pretty-cool/I've had a somewhat profile at LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jpreston for a while now, and I've been reluctant to fill it out mostly because I feel like...Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-06-osx-and-vista/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-06-osx-and-vista/This will be interesting: Fred abandons MS altogetherhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/12/mynewyearsre.htmlcomments Brad goes Vista all the wayhttp://www.feld.co...Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-05-follow-up-on-itunes-idiocy-or-dear-apple-fix-your-stupid-software/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-05-follow-up-on-itunes-idiocy-or-dear-apple-fix-your-stupid-software/I remembered as I'm sure I would have eventually that all my playlists and ratings and play counts and data and such are on my iPod, intact. However, I just ...Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-05-how-to-find-your-wii-friend-code-and-add-other-wii-friends/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-05-how-to-find-your-wii-friend-code-and-add-other-wii-friends/Although I'm really enjoying just about everything about the Wii right now, I have to admit the process of adding other friends to the address book is far fr...Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-04-ask-goes-local-for-real/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-04-ask-goes-local-for-real/I remember saying a while ago that local search was in its very beginning stages. What we're going to eventually is a search that works with the following ty...Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-04-effective-spam-filters/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-04-effective-spam-filters/I've said before that e-mail is brokenhttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/09/20/e-mail-as-a-system-is-broken/. The way to fix that is to get a really...Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-04-where-to-get-discount-toner-for-your-laser-printer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-04-where-to-get-discount-toner-for-your-laser-printer/I feel like half the time I Google anything, it's something like: "good service" Korean food in Glendale on the off chance that someone has had some good Kor...Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-03-a-day-late/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-03-a-day-late/I think it's kind of cool how Facebook sends out an e-mail when you get a new friend invite, someone writes on your wall, or you get invited to an event. I d...Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-02-canon-support/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-12-02-canon-support/I should be getting my camera it's a PowerShot SD400, and it's awesome back on monday or tuesday, which I broke in Germany several months ago. This is the se...Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-30-i-want-e-mail-profiles/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-30-i-want-e-mail-profiles/One of the annoying things about having SBC DSL at my apartment is that they require that all outgoing e-mail go through their SMTP server, despite the fact ...Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-30-sweet-looking-hp-mediapc/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-30-sweet-looking-hp-mediapc/Engadget has a first lookhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/30/hp-iq770-crossfire-19-inch-touchscreen-media-pc-revealed/ at HP's upcoming "crossfire" MediaPC ru...Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-30-weirdest-spam-ever/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-30-weirdest-spam-ever/I got a spamment a few days ago that looks like it's an ad for capcha or something: Sorry for this crap: Nothing personal, just a job, sorry for links…...Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-29-the-comment-drop/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-29-the-comment-drop/Do you do this? I think everyone probably does this. I occasionally go through my feedreader or livejournal friends page and make sure to leave a comment on ...Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-29-thinking-ahead-tie-fighter-article/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-29-thinking-ahead-tie-fighter-article/A very large part of me wants to pay the hundred-odd dollars for another year of hosting come May just to keep this articlehttp://www.flickergaming.net/index...Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-29-uk-press-wants-blogers-to-behave-themselvesyeah-right/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-29-uk-press-wants-blogers-to-behave-themselvesyeah-right/I think this ideahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ukpolitics/6191988.stm of having a voluntary "code of conduct" in the blogosphere is funny on a couple of levels:...Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-28-pc-gaming-vs-console-gaming-the-debate-continues/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-28-pc-gaming-vs-console-gaming-the-debate-continues/Image: pc vs consoleFirst, a gripe. Take a look at thishttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/26/whos-winning-consoles-or-pcs/ Joystiq post. Looks legit, right? OK, ...Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-27-console-wars-roundup-wii-vs-ps3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-27-console-wars-roundup-wii-vs-ps3/Image: wii next to ps3After watching the development of the PS3 for the past year, I've been wondering recently why anyone would be buying the launch console...Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-27-how-to-get-firefox-20-to-use-googles-im-feeling-lucky-search-in-the-address-bar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-27-how-to-get-firefox-20-to-use-googles-im-feeling-lucky-search-in-the-address-bar/I've complained beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/11/15/feeling-lucky-in-firefox-2/ about how Firefox 2.0http://www.getfirefox.com, while bet...Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-26-bathroom-accidents/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-26-bathroom-accidents/I was at McDonalds today for the first time in ages because they've brought back the McRib, which, despite many valid health concerns, I must eat. But the be...Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-25-duke-of-url/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-25-duke-of-url/Surfing through the 'sphere, I ran across a posthttp://tucowsblog.com/blog/archives/2006/11/23/2520670.html on the tucowsblog pointing to a new little servic...Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-25-playing-more-with-beyondtv/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-25-playing-more-with-beyondtv/A while ago the people at Snapstream Media were kind enough to provide me with a copy of BeyondTVhttp://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ for my home-bui...Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-its-black-friday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-its-black-friday/Image: sw transformWhich is a pretty appropriately? ominous sounding name for the day when, historically, tons of retailers start operating in the black for ...Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-its-podcast-time-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-its-podcast-time-again/Image: podcastI managed to finagle myself a spot in this Thanksgiving's GamerAndy Live podcasthttp://www.gamerandy.com/archives/2006/11/gamerandylive40.shtml...Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-new-itunes-ignored-podcast-settings/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-new-itunes-ignored-podcast-settings/Has anyone else noticed that the new iTunes seems to ignore my podcast settings? I have it set to grab all new episodes when the RSS feed is updated for exam...Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-seth-wants-cake/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-24-seth-wants-cake/The great thing about Seth's blog is that most of his posts are a little bit enigmatic and it takes some thinking to get your way through them. But every now...Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-23-happy-thanksgiving-in-06/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-23-happy-thanksgiving-in-06/Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays, mostly because it dispenses with a lot of the unnecessary formalities and goes right into the stuff...Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-22-do-you-want-a-free-7500-pc-or-a-600-ps3/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-22-do-you-want-a-free-7500-pc-or-a-600-ps3/Image: pcg podcastWell, unless you're an idiot, you'll take the former. There's a pretty well known axiom that with technology, you get what you pay for, whi...Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-22-mybloglog-why-opt-out/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-22-mybloglog-why-opt-out/I know I'm a little late to this conversation, but I've been gnawing on sound bytes like Arrington'shttp://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=296: Still, I turned off th...Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-21-a-movie-making-experiment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-21-a-movie-making-experiment/Yesterday, while spinning ourselves sick on the teacups, my friend Spencer remarked that some of the best movie ideas he's ever heard have come from people m...Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-21-left-4-dead-available-in-2007/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-21-left-4-dead-available-in-2007/Image: left 4 dead Valve just announced their new title in cooperation with Turtle Rock Studios the Counter-Strike team - I wasn't aware they were technicall...Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-21-why-do-i-think-its-sunday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-21-why-do-i-think-its-sunday/Some days are just not the day they're supposed to be. You ever get that feeling? I spent almost 10 minutes in the shower this morning wondering what my Sund...Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-20-first-impressions-of-the-wii/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-20-first-impressions-of-the-wii/Image: zeldaI know this is hardly an original topic for a blog post, and as unlikely as it is that anything I say will convince someone as to whether or not ...Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-19-hanging-out-at-the-wii-launch-party/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-19-hanging-out-at-the-wii-launch-party/Image: wii launchNintendo and associated interested parties were holding a Wii launch party at Universal City walk, which included a live DJ, a few short int...Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-18-why-is-hanging-so-difficult/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-18-why-is-hanging-so-difficult/It's the little things that get me at 1:30 in the morning, like not hanging up my clothes. I don't know why, but that last step of getting pants onto the han...Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-17-a-quick-review-casino-royale/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-17-a-quick-review-casino-royale/Image: casino royaleSince I am unhealthily addicted to Bond movies, I've known for months that I would be going to a midnight showing of Casino Royale somewh...Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-16-gears-of-war-le-freeze-le-often/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-16-gears-of-war-le-freeze-le-often/Image: gowI think the cruelest thing about Gears of War is that our Xbox freezes on the damn thing once every ten minutes or so. From the intermittent play I...Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-15-a-quick-note-on-calacanis-advertising-20/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-15-a-quick-note-on-calacanis-advertising-20/It's pretty obvious that advertising is moving onto the internet in big big ways, and Jason hits the nail on the headhttp://www.calacanis.com/2006/11/15/the-...Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-15-feeling-lucky-in-firefox-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-15-feeling-lucky-in-firefox-2/I love Firefox 2.0, I think it's great. Almost everything they changed has been for the better. Almost. In the old versions of Firefox, I could type somethin...Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-15-hd-dvd-player-for-200-on-condition/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-15-hd-dvd-player-for-200-on-condition/I agree with Fred Wilsonhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/11/tivovstheweb.html - I think computers are going to be sitting next to TV's int he future, not TiVos ...Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-14-captain-obvious-points-out-music-phone-drawbacks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-14-captain-obvious-points-out-music-phone-drawbacks/Image: big cell phoneSurfing through today's talked-about news, I ran across a quote from a Bloomberg.comhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=...Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-14-orson-scott-cards-new-book-is-14-free/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-14-orson-scott-cards-new-book-is-14-free/Empire, which I guess is being released on the 28th, is Orson Scott Card's latest offering. And he's being smart about it: the first 1/4 of the book is avail...Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-13-beware-of-the-bubble/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-13-beware-of-the-bubble/Mary Jo Foley counted the scorehttp://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=100 between Gates and Scoble on calling the Web 2.0 bubble an actual "bubble." I happen to...Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-13-disenfranchised-by-the-usps/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-13-disenfranchised-by-the-usps/Image: usps logoI'm a good little American - I vote in every election, and I have since I was 18. I believe that my vote, when it is counted, counts for some...Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-13-on-being-a-name/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-13-on-being-a-name/Image: condenser micI'm really getting into podcasts. When it first started becoming a phenomenon, I really thought podcasting was going somewherehttp://blog...Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-12-free-nyt-timesselect-contet-via-podcast/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-12-free-nyt-timesselect-contet-via-podcast/While I was poking around in the free week of TimesSelect which was actually a really cool advertising idea, I noticed that the NYT offers a podcast reading ...Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-12-six-word-short-stories/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-12-six-word-short-stories/I came across these while I was flipping through Wired Magazine today November issue - this is precisely the type of thing that completely fascinates me: We'...Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-11-e-mail-formatting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-11-e-mail-formatting/I'm never sure whether or not to use the old-school "" indent in reply e-mails. I like the way it looks, and I especially like that it makes it easy and conv...Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-10-art-me-some-gamespeak-video-game-grammar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-10-art-me-some-gamespeak-video-game-grammar/Image: picassoI've kept an eye on Corvus Elrod'shttp://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/ Round Table discussions for some time, and about once a month I decide I'm f...Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-10-getting-back-into-counter-strike/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-10-getting-back-into-counter-strike/Image: cs logoTechnically it's Counter-Strike: Source now instead of just Counter-Strike. But I've been playing this game on and off in some form or another ...Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-09-a-quick-link/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-09-a-quick-link/Thishttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/thedilbertblog/2006/11/blameroomserv.html is probably the most entertaining blog post I've seen in a long time. Oh to be h...Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-09-is-this-a-gmail-joke/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-09-is-this-a-gmail-joke/I can't tell if I'm just disposed to see things, or if some guy at Google thought this was funny: Image: gmailjokeThu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-09-too-many-social-networks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-09-too-many-social-networks/Consolidation. That's what needs to happen. I found an invite this morning in my inbox to join Bebo, which I'm sure is a fine service with cool people bounci...Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-08-the-3-level-rule-of-art/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-08-the-3-level-rule-of-art/This is a little guideline I use whenever I'm considering something that's "artsy," and trying to decide whether or not it's actually "art." If something has...Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-08-the-best-joke-ever-on-television/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-08-the-best-joke-ever-on-television/The aspect ratio's off, but this is in my humble opinion, the best joke that's ever made it onto television:Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-07-when-is-it-ok-to-delete-a-post/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-07-when-is-it-ok-to-delete-a-post/Image: blogsillyI think that there are times when it's totally appropriate to delete a post, and times when it's totally inappropriate. That being said, I'm ...Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-06-custom-home-theater-and-media-center-setup/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-06-custom-home-theater-and-media-center-setup/It should be pretty obvious by now that I'm not really capable of doing less than too much at any given point in time. Since I'm down here in LA with my frie...Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-05-deal-shopping-and-buying-on-credit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-05-deal-shopping-and-buying-on-credit/It's Sunday, so I'm not going to bother blogging about anything that's incredibly on-topic. Today's thoughtlessness: deal shopping. I'm such a deal shopper. ...Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-05-saving-my-old-hdtv-recordings/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-05-saving-my-old-hdtv-recordings/The only problems with getting my TV shows in glorious High-Definition TV and recording them with my home-built media center is that the files they end up in...Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-04-at-least-i-learned-a-thing-or-two/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-04-at-least-i-learned-a-thing-or-two/Image removed — original hosted on WordPressAs was posted on Flickerhttp://www.flickergaming.net/index.php/2006/11/02/so-heres-the-deal/ thursday, Ethan and ...Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-03-the-nightmare-before-christmas-in-disney-3d/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-03-the-nightmare-before-christmas-in-disney-3d/Image: jack skellingtonI went to see The Nightmare Before Christmashttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/ at El Capitan Disney's fancy theater in Hollywood on ...Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-02-facebook-has-my-shares-takes-a-jab-at-delicious/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-02-facebook-has-my-shares-takes-a-jab-at-delicious/Image: facebook logoAfter I noticed that Fred Wilson has a cool little "Facebook tag" on his sidebar, I went poking around in my Facebook profile to see wher...Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-02-valve-takes-on-hyper-threading-makes-me-want-a-new-computer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-02-valve-takes-on-hyper-threading-makes-me-want-a-new-computer/Image: hl2boxAccording to this articlehttp://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/11/02/MulticoreintheSourceEngin/1.html on bit-tech this morning, Valve has been bus...Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-01-bookmark-buttons-in-moderation-are-a-great-blog-feature/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-01-bookmark-buttons-in-moderation-are-a-great-blog-feature/Image: tagbar37 signals started a bit of buzz today with Matt's posthttp://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/93-its-the-content-not-the-icons railing on bookmarkin...Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-01-internet-explorer-7-is-my-new-rss-feedreader/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-11-01-internet-explorer-7-is-my-new-rss-feedreader/It's been a long time since I've used any sort of feedreader at all. I tend to read a very small number of blogs regularly - I click through at least a milli...Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-31-a-good-place-for-cheap-bodywork-in-ealge-rock-kobi-auto-body/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-31-a-good-place-for-cheap-bodywork-in-ealge-rock-kobi-auto-body/Image: autoA few weeks ago my car got hit by a cyclist who skidded out of control coming down a hill. It turned out alright because he was OK, and he also of...Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-31-companies-need-a-media-darling-is-this-new/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-31-companies-need-a-media-darling-is-this-new/Microsoft had Robert Scoble for a while. AOL and WIN has Jason Calacanis. Apple has Steve Jobs. These people do a lot more than just cater to the media, but ...Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-31-on-video-sites-sharing-ad-revenue/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-31-on-video-sites-sharing-ad-revenue/An article in Cnet today: Google shares ad wealth with videographershttp://news.com.com/2100-10243-6130881.html, talks about how Google has offered to share ...Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-30-my-battery-lies-to-me-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-30-my-battery-lies-to-me-2/I've had my laptop for just over three years now, and I've never changed the battery, so I guess it's probably about time for it to die, but the thing that I...Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-30-youtube-finally-starts-to-go-legit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-30-youtube-finally-starts-to-go-legit/Image: youtube vidThe New York Times today reports that YouTube is purging copyrighted clipshttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/technology/30youtube.html?r=1&r...Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-29-auto-correct-has-probably-ruined-my-spelling/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-29-auto-correct-has-probably-ruined-my-spelling/I just realized that it's been a long time since I spelled the word "pieces" correctly. This is because I hardly ever handwrite things anymore, and when I do...Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-29-jason-preston-in-a-podcast-no-way/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-29-jason-preston-in-a-podcast-no-way/It's true, I'm on tape OK, mp3 making an ass of myself talking about blog metrics. It's kind of an odd podcast that was taken at a cocktail party during the ...Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-29-second-life-does-weather-is-it-an-operating-system/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-29-second-life-does-weather-is-it-an-operating-system/Image: second life weatherAccording to Second Life Insiderhttp://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/10/28/3d-weather-data-visualization-in-second-life/: The Nati...Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-28-another-quick-how-to-schedule-posts-in-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-28-another-quick-how-to-schedule-posts-in-wordpress/Image: dateboxThis is a pretty simple trick, but it's probably one that most basic Wordpress users might not know. The only reason I know how to do it is tha...Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-28-pluck-rss-shutting-downnot-the-end-of-consumer-rss-readers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-28-pluck-rss-shutting-downnot-the-end-of-consumer-rss-readers/Just found this articlehttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pluckrssreadershutsdown.php via techmeme. Pluck is giving up on its RSS reader, and Richard says ...Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-28-two-posts-in-one-firefox-20-rocks-and-mybloglog-makes-me-feel-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-28-two-posts-in-one-firefox-20-rocks-and-mybloglog-makes-me-feel-cool/I've been blogging like hell these past few days, and since I'm spending all day at the Blog Business Summit, I guess that makes sense. But even with all thi...Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-a-quick-how-to-get-your-short-numerical-permalink-from-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-a-quick-how-to-get-your-short-numerical-permalink-from-wordpress/As far as I know, there's no automated process for getting the short, numeric-based permalink for your Wordpresshttp://www.wordpress.org entries, however, si...Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-is-running-a-contest-cheating/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-is-running-a-contest-cheating/We're talking about good practices in online video in the current panel here at the BBS, and the panel is giving a segment on how useful a tool contests are ...Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-john-battelle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-john-battelle/Just met John Battellehttp://battellemedia.com/, he's a really chill guy. I feel like he would be a really awesome guy to sit down and hang out with. Maybe s...Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-what-is-rss-good-for-musings-at-the-blog-business-summit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-27-what-is-rss-good-for-musings-at-the-blog-business-summit/Image: funky rssI have always said that RSS, before it really makes its way into the big time, needs to be completely invisible. It is by its very nature a c...Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-calacanis-takes-the-podium-at-bbs-seattle-06-i-get-a-calacanis-nickname/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-calacanis-takes-the-podium-at-bbs-seattle-06-i-get-a-calacanis-nickname/Jason Calacanis gave the keynotehttp://www.calacanis.com/2006/10/26/keynote-from-blog-business-summit/ today at the BBShttp://www.blogbusinesssummit.com 2006...Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-dinner-with-the-non-existent-a-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-dinner-with-the-non-existent-a-list/Last night I was lucky enough to enjoy a wine and gin tasting dinner at Maggianos with a number of the attendees of the Blog Business Summit. It was one of t...Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-how-rich-are-you/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-how-rich-are-you/Image: cash.jpgThis is a funny toolhttp://www.globalrichlist.com/, I found the link so early this morning that I've completely forgotten where I spotted it f...Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-windows-live-search-macros/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-26-windows-live-search-macros/At the last of the last of today's sessions, the Microsoft people up on the stage pointed out that MSN Live search has a new macro-making ability. You can fi...Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-25-bbs-seattle-blogging-pitfalls/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-25-bbs-seattle-blogging-pitfalls/Since I'm not doing enough stuff at the BBShttp://www.blogbusinesssummit.com today including some live blogging on the BBS blog, I figured I'd jot down some ...Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-25-mybloglog-is-here/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-25-mybloglog-is-here/I signed up for this service ages ago after I saw it show up on Fred Wilson's blog, and installed the script and set up the tracking for Flicker Gaming. Sinc...Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-25-presentations-and-opinions-quickly/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-25-presentations-and-opinions-quickly/I've wanted to attend one of these conferences ever since I started working on them almost two years ago. For some reason, circumstances have made it impossi...Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-24-working-the-blog-business-summit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-24-working-the-blog-business-summit/I suppose it's odd that I almost never blog about my work, since my work essentially revolves around the blogosphere. In fact, it's probably because of that ...Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-23-continuations-in-the-saga-of-my-american-literature-class/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-23-continuations-in-the-saga-of-my-american-literature-class/Although it happens to be my most difficult class, History of American Literature continues to be the most entertaining class I'm taking this semester. So fa...Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-23-im-an-idiot-or-how-apple-built-the-feature-i-was-looking-for-right-into-itunes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-23-im-an-idiot-or-how-apple-built-the-feature-i-was-looking-for-right-into-itunes/As I explained in my previous post, I recently purchased an album on iTunes but didn't manage to download all the tracks before iTunes crashed. When I restar...Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-22-itunes-hiccupbought-music-but-didnt-get-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-22-itunes-hiccupbought-music-but-didnt-get-it/First time I've had a problem using iTunes. I bought the soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine the other day since, after all, it's a pretty good soundtrack, an...Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-18-on-the-raven/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-18-on-the-raven/Image: ravenFor anyone who has an interest in Edgar Allan Poe, writing fiction, or "The Raven," I highly recommend "The Philosophy of Compositionhttp://www.b...Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-17-854/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-17-854/Between my screenwriting class, two personal book projects, and several blogs, I do a fair amount of writing. I have always, and probably will always, want t...Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-17-alien-customs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-17-alien-customs/Image: alien dudeAmong the multitudes of science fiction stories I tend to read there's something absolutely fascinating about how people imagine even the mo...Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-14-landline-phone-companies-should-shut-the-hell-up-and-make-a-service-worth-having/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-14-landline-phone-companies-should-shut-the-hell-up-and-make-a-service-worth-having/Image: phone.jpgPhone companies are all downcast because their precious landline cash cow to every home in America is being replaced by cell phones. I like h...Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-14-online-video/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-14-online-video/I'm continually fascinated by online video. Services similar to YouTube are popping up like bunnies all over the place, and they're all enabling a really new...Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-13-flickr-has-a-limit-boooo/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-13-flickr-has-a-limit-boooo/Apparently if you're not a paying customer at FlickRhttp://www.flickr.com, you're not allowed to have more than 200 photos online - every time I upload a pho...Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-13-fun-with-indesign/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-13-fun-with-indesign/My friend Benhttp://www.adlin.com has a wondeful knack for doing things that are visually appealing, and for the past year or thereabouts I've been watching ...Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-11-my-documentary/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-11-my-documentary/At Occidental, senior year tends to center around "comps," which, I imagine, stands for "comprehensive project." Every senior has to do a project within thei...Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-08-a-productive-sunday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-08-a-productive-sunday/I feel like today was pretty productive overall. I made a list of things that I wanted / needed to do today, and I just crossed the last thing off my list. G...Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-06-random-thoughts-for-friday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-06-random-thoughts-for-friday/It must suck to be a tow truck driver because you will always have to drive through traffic. I passed an accident on the freeway going home today and I was u...Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-04-if-you-cant-defend-themdisown-them/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-04-if-you-cant-defend-themdisown-them/Image: false democratMy friend Ben just forwarded a linkhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/04/bill-oreilly-labels-rep-foley-a-democrat/ to me that I thoug...Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-03-outlook-2007/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-03-outlook-2007/I'm looking forward to Outlook 2007 because there are two very important things that the current version of Outlook can't do to save its life: - search - cal...Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-02-843/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-02-843/My screenwriting professor has a tendency to quote people. It's kind of funny, because it's almost as though he's read so many scripts in his life that he re...Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-02-the-world-is-our-dumpster/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-10-02-the-world-is-our-dumpster/Image: toxic kidThe most amazing thing to me is how people who are essentially good can do ridiculously cruel things, so long as it's a few times removed. Th...Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-30-doggy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-30-doggy/Ethan's brother just got a dog, and it's staying in our apartment for the night because dogs aren't allowed at the hotel. They're not allowed here either, bu...Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-28-tombs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-28-tombs/I was just thinking about tombs it's for a paper, I swear and how a tomb is really a place that people expect their body to be for eternity. Granted, tomb is...Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-27-casino-royale-on-november-17th/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-27-casino-royale-on-november-17th/The new bond film, with the new bond Daniel Craig is slated to open on November 17th. I just caught a new preview of the movie herehttp://www.egotastic.com/v...Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-27-standards-vs-software/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-27-standards-vs-software/Generally speaking, it seems that when it comes to technology that involves formatting, there are two basic ways to go about streamlining. First, and this is...Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-27-the-cost-of-10-years/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-27-the-cost-of-10-years/There's a very interesting articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/business/27leonhardt.html?ex=1159502400&en=0f0bef120e1c09a0&ei=5087%0A in the New York Ti...Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-26-an-unusual-side-effect/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-26-an-unusual-side-effect/Since I'm in my last year of college, it seems as though it's about time I stopped living in the little cinderblock boxes that my school provides for as many...Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-discoverability-continued/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-discoverability-continued/Image: searchThe internet is really just a big jumble of information, and the only way things are really tied together is with search. Yahoo! was the first t...Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-house/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-house/Image: houseI started watching House reruns on TV in late August this year and I got pretty addicted to the show, and anyone else who's fallen into this trap...Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-massive-attack-at-the-hollywood-bowl/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-massive-attack-at-the-hollywood-bowl/I went to see Massive Attack this evening at the Hollywood Bowl with my roomate Ethan - it was a pretty badass concert all in all. There were tons of people ...Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-things-i-shouldnt-buy-but-that-i-want-to/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-25-things-i-shouldnt-buy-but-that-i-want-to/To this list I'm officially adding this Blade Runner gun. I basically never see this thing sold. It's almost worth the $70 on ebayhttp://cgi.ebay.com/Blade-R...Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-20-e-mail-as-a-system-is-broken/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-20-e-mail-as-a-system-is-broken/It occurs to me today, as I try repeatedly to do something so simple as to coordinate a group project via e-mail, that e-mail is a broken system. I have not ...Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-20-i-miss-fast-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-20-i-miss-fast-internet/I am completely aware that "fast internet" is entirely relative, and my internet conection is only slow in comparison to what I've been using for the past tw...Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-19-changes-and-opportunities/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-19-changes-and-opportunities/I changed my Facebook profile today, which I never do. If I didn't think that Facebook was well on its way to crapland, I'd probably care a lot more about th...Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-18-they-found-a-shark-that-walks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-18-they-found-a-shark-that-walks/Image: fin sharkAccording to Lycos newshttp://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UNDERWATERDISCOVERIES?SITE=LYCOS&SECTION=home&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT, they found, amo...Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-16-be-warned/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-16-be-warned/Hehe Image: nexturanus.jpgSat, 16 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-15-lucas-has-two-more-rounds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-15-lucas-has-two-more-rounds/I just realized that the whole Star Wars DVD bastardness is going to happen all over again when the new HD DVD / Blu Ray thing get figured out. And damnit I'...Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-15-lucas-is-a-bastard-but-theres-really-nothing-i-can-do-about-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-15-lucas-is-a-bastard-but-theres-really-nothing-i-can-do-about-it/I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I have been since I was about 10 and I first saw the movies. But the things is, I'm really a huge fan of the original theatrical re...Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-15-tabs-on-the-google-homepage/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-15-tabs-on-the-google-homepage/I remember liking the tabbing option on live.com and now Google has added a tab feature to their customized homepage. I'm going to have to add some tabs and ...Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-12-the-jump/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-12-the-jump/!http://static.flickr.com/81/241894942cd8a2ad57dm.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/241894942/ "photo sharing" Probably the coolest picture ever take...Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-11-beyondtv-to-the-rescue/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-11-beyondtv-to-the-rescue/!http://static.flickr.com/2/20289074b0e78eb10m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mhanlen1/2028907/After my post the other day about how much of a headache gett...Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-11-make-the-world-better-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-11-make-the-world-better-day/!http://static.flickr.com/63/221594347ec777b4c47m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/72131699@N00/221594347/To a large extent I feel like all the movies and med...Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-08-hdtv-will-be-the-death-of-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-08-hdtv-will-be-the-death-of-me/Building, setting up, and actually getting my home-brewed media center to work has been a pretty ridiculous amount of work. Since I couldn't get Windows Medi...Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-08-top-human-security-threats/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-09-08-top-human-security-threats/We just made lists in groups of what we each thought the top three security threats to the world were. The lists looked like this: 1. Environment 2. Lack of ...Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-31-feeling-disorganized/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-31-feeling-disorganized/!http://static.flickr.com/66/216169920006ddde0b6m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/88375037@N00/216169920/I think it might just be one of the side effects of ...Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-31-sometimes-it-stares-at-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-31-sometimes-it-stares-at-me/I'm sure that by the year 2012 I will have grown to hate this page. It sits there with a queue of drafts listed garishly across the top and a huge title that...Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-29-nothing-works/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-29-nothing-works/Hooray for getting in and trying to set up stuff that doesn't work. For some reason, turning off my media center for two days has broken the remote control. ...Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-27-the-one-more-thing-travel-paradox/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-27-the-one-more-thing-travel-paradox/!http://static.flickr.com/64/226094444f5fbfd24edm.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photozoom.gne?id=226094444&size=sI'm not exactly sure how it happened, but I think...Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-17-hello-from-england/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-17-hello-from-england/I'm sitting in a pub in Brighton right now taking advantage of the free wireless network on my phone. Ben, who i an traveling with, is writing a massive emai...Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-11-get-yoself-some-traffic-with-the-linkbox/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-11-get-yoself-some-traffic-with-the-linkbox/!http://static.flickr.com/62/212131390891e39a4dfm.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photozoom.gne?id=212131390&size=sSome peoplehttp://waltercrespo.blogspot.com/ are ...Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-10-getting-ready-to-travel/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-10-getting-ready-to-travel/Assuming nothing really drastic happens before Saturday, I'll be on a plane to Amsterdam with my friend Benhttp://www.adlin.com. Getting ready for the trip i...Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-07-flickr-in-gamma/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-07-flickr-in-gamma/Did anyone else notice that the photo service FlickRhttp://www.flickr.com has moved from being a "beta" service to a "gamma" service? I think that's pretty c...Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-07-im-not-really-sure-where-this-came-from-but-its-awesome/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-07-im-not-really-sure-where-this-came-from-but-its-awesome/You can find part 2 and part 3 on Youtube.Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-07-shooting-is-only-half/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-07-shooting-is-only-half/It occurs to me as I look at photos like this onehttp://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photospeople/0608051639.shtml and this onehttp://wvs.topleftpixel.com/a...Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-06-blue-angels-at-seafair/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-06-blue-angels-at-seafair/Went to see the Blue Angels today at Seafair. Took some cool pictures. !Blue Angels over Mt Raineerhttp://static.flickr.com/84/208679749755325d976.jpghttp://...Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-06-playing-editor/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-06-playing-editor/Image: editorWriting to grow and atract an audience what I do on Flicker Gaminghttp://www.flickergaming.net is a hell of a lot different from writing for my ...Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-05-spam-spam-spam-spam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-05-spam-spam-spam-spam/My oldest emal address is from Seanethttp://www.seanet.com/whatsnew/ - leftover from the days when we had dial-up accounts that came with 500k of web space a...Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-03-entrepreneuring-on-the-web/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-03-entrepreneuring-on-the-web/Looking at articles in Business Week like this onehttp://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/0633/b3997001.htm covering Kevin Rose Digg.comhttp://www.digg....Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-03-ok-go-who-needs-mtv/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-03-ok-go-who-needs-mtv/I just spotted another OK GO video on YouTube. For those of you who missed out on A Million Ways, you can find it herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJEa44W...Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-03-we-have-smart-readers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-03-we-have-smart-readers/This is partly a product of having a reasonably small audience, partly a product of Firefox's growing market share, and partly a product of catering to a gro...Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-02-90-percent-live/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-02-90-percent-live/There's no time like 4am to do a site redesign. I finally convinced myself to draw up what I wanted in Photoshop and then go tinkering in the CSS. Doing it t...Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-02-two-cents-on-paying-social-bookmarkers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-02-two-cents-on-paying-social-bookmarkers/Image: digg lego logoI never commented on thishttp://www.calacanis.com/2006/07/18/everyones-gotta-eat-or-1-000-a-month-for-doing-what-youre/ because I though...Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-02-writing-a-book-or-two/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-02-writing-a-book-or-two/Image: booksSeth Godin posted a list of helpful tidbitshttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/sethsblog/2006/08/adviceforauth.html for wannabe authors like myself, and...Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-01-buying-digital/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-01-buying-digital/Image: cdI just installed a new lightscribe DVD burner in the computer I'm building to be a DVR for my projector. It's a sweet new drive that's supposed to b...Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-01-i-get-it-the-long-tail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-01-i-get-it-the-long-tail/The whole time I've been reading through The Long Tailhttp://www.thelongtail.com, I've been trying to grasp how it applies to content production or more spec...Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-01-technorati-becomes-a-feedreader-i-want-my-web-sites-back/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-08-01-technorati-becomes-a-feedreader-i-want-my-web-sites-back/Image: feed icon grayscaleHas anyone else noticed that with it's latest revision, technorati has become a feedreader as well as a blog search engine? They en...Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-31-discovering-newsvine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-31-discovering-newsvine/Image: newsvine wallI'm a perfect example of why blogs actually do work. This summer, simply because of people's blogs, I have: - Bought a book - Subscribed ...Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-30-ive-discovered-the-secret-to-dilberts-success/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-30-ive-discovered-the-secret-to-dilberts-success/Reading the comics section of the paper this morning, I realized why Dilbert is such an amazingly popular comic: it's the only one that's funny. So it seems ...Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-29-phantom-linkage-from-technorati/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-29-phantom-linkage-from-technorati/Recently I've been getting a bunch of incoming links listed from Technoratihttp://www.technorati.com that don't seem to exist. I regularly check out blogs th...Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-29-wob-marketing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-29-wob-marketing/There is such a thing as free marketing online. Some people thinkhttp://www.passthepress.com/?p=635 Viral Marketing is past it's prime. It probably is, so lo...Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-27-hooray-shawn-hogan/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-27-hooray-shawn-hogan/I'm glad some people are contesting ridiculous lawsuits or rather, going to court instead of settling: From Wiredhttp://wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/start.h...Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-27-the-importance-of-favicons/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-27-the-importance-of-favicons/I just realized that in my little bookmark folder of blogs that I visit basically every day, I've been skipping basically all the typepad blogs because they ...Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-27-tips-on-how-to-grow-traffic-with-the-right-content/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-27-tips-on-how-to-grow-traffic-with-the-right-content/Part of what I do during all my sleepless nights hey, I'm young is try to think logically about how people browse about the internet hey, I'm a geek. To this...Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-26-magic-traffic-secrets/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-26-magic-traffic-secrets/If anyone knows the magic secret to getting bunches of people to realize that your site is up online and is cool, now would be the time to let me in ; I've g...Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-25-771/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-25-771/I wish I had the readership and resources to outsource my business problems to the blogosphere like Mark Cuban does. Is this another example of pulling the l...Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-24-dear-itunes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-24-dear-itunes/When I hit the randomize button, I want it to randomize the order of play, not screw up the order in which I've listed my songs.Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-24-no-hope-for-bluehost/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-24-no-hope-for-bluehost/It seems that no matter what I do, BlueHosthttp://www.bluehost.com keeps dropping Flicker down. Now that we've moved server boxes, our site is down and the o...Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-24-we-need-a-new-cookie-system/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-24-we-need-a-new-cookie-system/Between my desktop and my laptop, I use about four or five different browsers every day, on at least two different computers. Generally speaking, Google Bros...Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-23-hit-or-miss/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-23-hit-or-miss/It's funny that Seth Godin is posting a few throwback posts while I'm reading The Long Tail. In a thought apparently from 2004, Seth saidhttp://sethgodin.typ...Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-23-intellitxt-is-annoying/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-23-intellitxt-is-annoying/Image: IntellitextDoes anyone else think that this IntelliTXT style advertising that keeps showing up on a lot of gaming sites, incidentally is extremely ann...Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-23-some-things-i-dont-want-to-learn/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-23-some-things-i-dont-want-to-learn/I can't usually tell people what I do at work. This is largely because I don't think that what I do is very easy to classify; half the time I'm not even sure...Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-22-deaths-in-kirkland/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-22-deaths-in-kirkland/In case you didn't hear about the story in Kirklandhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003144181kirkfire22e.html, it turns out the massive house...Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-21-apples-brilliant-marketing-ploy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-21-apples-brilliant-marketing-ploy/What Apple has done far better than any other company I can think of is make their customer their advertiser. It's not very often I find someone who uses a M...Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-21-the-new-age-of-cell-phones/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-21-the-new-age-of-cell-phones/Our house phone line has been out for three days now, and if it isn't fixed today it probably won't be fixed unil monday. Ten years ago this would have been ...Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-20-george-carlin-on-campus-1984/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-20-george-carlin-on-campus-1984/No idea how long it'll be up it says public domain? but a full hour of one of my favorite comedians can be found on Google Video:Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-20-outsource-the-hit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-20-outsource-the-hit/I guess the main point of my earlier thoughtshttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/07/20/the-premature-death-of-hits/ is that in everything except reta...Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-20-the-premature-death-of-hits/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-20-the-premature-death-of-hits/In The Long Tail, Chris Anderson divides most of what we consume into "hits" and, for lack of a better term, "misses," and spends a long time explaining how ...Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-19-message-to-the-media/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-19-message-to-the-media/When you lock your archives behind sixteen different walls then all the work you put into them that is, the sum total of journalism for everything but the pa...Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-19-trying-new-stuffs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-19-trying-new-stuffs/If you scroll halfway down the page, you'll notice something in my sidebar that is practically ubiquitous, and so so so important to the internet economy rig...Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-18-back-to-square-one-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-18-back-to-square-one-again/Design-wise. Hopefully it won't look too terribly different when I'm done, but I wanted to upgrade the site to a theme compatible with widgets. I'm starting ...Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-18-good-god-adelphia-sucks-balls/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-18-good-god-adelphia-sucks-balls/In today's day and age, it is absolutely essential for a company offering a service or a product to have a positive online experience; a whopping 87% of cons...Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-17-drive-traffic-with-a-contest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-17-drive-traffic-with-a-contest/It's been my plan for some time to try and run a contest on Flicker to drive some traffic and help put our site "out there." Part of the problem with arrangi...Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-17-paint-a-picture-of-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-17-paint-a-picture-of-me/I'm reading and enjoying The Long Tailhttp://www.thelongtail.com, and so far I'm about halfway through it's an excellent read. I'll post more complete though...Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-16-internet-and-broadband-video-are-overrated-but-unrealized/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-16-internet-and-broadband-video-are-overrated-but-unrealized/I've been reading through Mark Cuban's posts on how the internet is boringhttp://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000380073791/ and broadband video is overrate...Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-16-on-doing-cool-things/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-16-on-doing-cool-things/There's a girlhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/07/howtobeafil.html who's doing big things by releasing her videos on YouTube. This is a damn good idea, but it w...Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-15-i-hate-hamlet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-15-i-hate-hamlet/i'm watching this play at meydenbauer center in bellevue it's quite good yay one line phone postsSat, 15 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-14-two-bullets-of-cheap-marketing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-14-two-bullets-of-cheap-marketing/Instead of spending so much time thinking about these things, I should probably go out a buy a few books on marketing, since I'll wager this has all been thu...Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-13-hahahahahahahahaha/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-13-hahahahahahahahaha/Man oh man is this guyhttp://marchtogether.blogspot.com/2006/07/murder-without-conscience.html getting trashedhttp://blog.blogpulse.com/archives/000699.html ...Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-13-the-exciting-drudgery/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-13-the-exciting-drudgery/Nobody ever told me how important the sitemeter was going to be when I started Flicker. I live by that thing - days are prettier and birds sing a little bit ...Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-dell-laptops-spy-on-their-users/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-dell-laptops-spy-on-their-users/My friend Ethanhttp://www.rabidspacedog.com pointed me to an articlehttp://virus.org.ua/unix/keylog/klog.htm?link he found on digg today that describes how a...Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-good-news-for-wired-and-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-good-news-for-wired-and-me/Lycos is finally selling Wired Newshttp://www.longtail.com/thelongtail/2006/07/andtocapoff.html, which is good news because I had basically stopped reading i...Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-scarface-thoughts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-scarface-thoughts/I know that I'm one of the few people who didn't particularly like Scarface, but damnit, it just wasn't that enjoyable. It was the story of some asshole drug...Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-two-entirely-unrelated-things-that-upset-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-12-two-entirely-unrelated-things-that-upset-me/1. My latest batch of checks from Bank of America in LA that came with the free checking account cost $11, a charge that I was not informed about beforehand ...Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-10-syndicated-stealing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-10-syndicated-stealing/One of the funny things about everything on Fred Wilson's Internet Axis of Evilhttp://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2006/03/anewmemberof.html is that they're a...Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-09-dreams-make-mistakes-too/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-09-dreams-make-mistakes-too/It's not really that rare to have a dream that puts some random sequence of seemingly unrelated experiences together. But last night was the first time I can...Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-09-vh1-craps-on-the-mac-ads/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-09-vh1-craps-on-the-mac-ads/I suppose it was only a matter of time until this happened - especially since the Mac dude is kind of pompous jackassy.Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-09-wimbledon-final/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-09-wimbledon-final/Did anyone record the Men's Final this morning? I managed to not see it and not record it.Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-07-dead-mans-chest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-07-dead-mans-chest/Just got back from watching the midnight showing of Pirates 2 - I'm pretty tired so I'll keep the thoughts brief. It was a lot better than I expected it to b...Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-07-my-civic-gets-better-mileage-that-lexus-hybrid/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-07-my-civic-gets-better-mileage-that-lexus-hybrid/Honestly, sometimes it's hard for me to believe people are actually buying cars that guzzle so much gas. The new lexus GS 450h little hybrid sedan thing got ...Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-06-blatant-linkage/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-06-blatant-linkage/I just had to point out that the story ben found is hilarioushttp://adlin.com/?p=69. Go check it out.Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-05-being-quotable/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-05-being-quotable/One of things on my 101 listhttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/03/28/my-101-list/ that might be somewhat more achievable than others is the aspirati...Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-03-little-issues-with-macs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-03-little-issues-with-macs/If I were that Mac dude in those commercials, I'd be pretty embarrassed that I went on this big spiel about coming pre-packaged with cool applications but th...Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-03-ranking-flicker-gaming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-03-ranking-flicker-gaming/Image: flicker technorati rankingAccording to Technorati, Flicker is now three times as cool as this blog ranked at 264,711. It's pretty cool to watch as Fli...Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-02-huuuuuuge-screen-tv/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-02-huuuuuuge-screen-tv/Last night, just for fun, my friends and I watched Batman Begins on a screen the size of a Queensize bedsheet. Basically, we tacked the sheet to the wall and...Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-01-little-differences-between-movable-type-and-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-01-little-differences-between-movable-type-and-wordpress/As I'm working for Parnassus Ventures, the company that does the Blog Business Summithttp://www.blogbusinesssummit.com, I've been spending some time working ...Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-01-pretzel-thoughts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-07-01-pretzel-thoughts/It's strange to me how some thoughts are really condusive to blogging and others aren't. A lot of the time I think that if I just kept a running tab of my ne...Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-29-give-me-liberty-or-give-meless/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-29-give-me-liberty-or-give-meless/Thishttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2248170,00.html is simply amazing. Sure, the information printed may make a dent in tracking down terrorists. B...Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-29-hooray-for-december-2004/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-29-hooray-for-december-2004/I was going through my old file drawer and trying to make everything look like it's in some semblance of order this is the first time in my life I've bothere...Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-29-reverse-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-29-reverse-blogging/One of the cool things about delicious is that it allows you to keep a reverse blog. For example, I occasionally tag articles I've written or cool links I fi...Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-biking-through-medina/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-biking-through-medina/!Post Officehttp://static.flickr.com/62/176444262036ead33d0.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/176444262/ "Photo Sharing"Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-five-depresing-thoughts-for-a-sunny-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-five-depresing-thoughts-for-a-sunny-day/1. For the first time that I can remember, I really saw smog in Seattle today. That pretty much goes against everything Seattle stands for in my mind. 2. We'...Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-nobody-text-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-nobody-text-me/Until midnight, anyway. T-mobile is retarted enough to charge me for incoming text messages. Image: notextTue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-why-is-flicker-gaming-awesome-part-2-of-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-27-why-is-flicker-gaming-awesome-part-2-of-2/People launch their browsers for basically two reasons: either to look something up, or to engage themselves. I think that the more people that get involved ...Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-do-we-live-in-a-democracy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-do-we-live-in-a-democracy/Honestly, and I've posted beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/06/15/freedom-of-speech/ about how I'm getting scared of my government - but it's...Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-hey-press-you-forgot-something/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-hey-press-you-forgot-something/One of the funny side-effects of trying to do very cutting-edge things is that often several groups of people are working in the same direction at the same t...Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-so-much-heat/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-so-much-heat/I turns out that finding the Seattle Times' big front-page story online is not always the easiest thing to do. Today they had a huge feature on how frikin' h...Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-why-is-flicker-gaming-awesome-part-1-of-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-26-why-is-flicker-gaming-awesome-part-1-of-2/Image: Flicker Logo Header http://www.flickergaming.net I do a lot of thinking about what Flicker Gaming is, what we're trying to do with it, and why it's so...Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-25-ive-discovered-mailing-lists/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-25-ive-discovered-mailing-lists/It seems odd that it tooks me so long to figure out what mailing lists are, and how potentially cool they can be. But just recently I joined a mailing list c...Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-25-new-courses/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-25-new-courses/Image: rooftop david I've been playing a whole bunch of Disc Golf lately. Not with huge fancy discraft drivers and putters, of course, but just at the right ...Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-24-why-itunes-works-despite-the-fact-that-i-hate-drm/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-24-why-itunes-works-despite-the-fact-that-i-hate-drm/I just downloaded a song on iTunes. I clicked the purchase button about 15 seconds ago, and now I'm listening to it. This, especially in contrast to my recen...Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-23-miffed-but-placated/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-23-miffed-but-placated/Ordering my projector has been a week-long and highly annoying experience. Between Fry's and Fry's unaffiliated with Fry's web site, I think I may be convinc...Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-23-net-neutrality-and-monopolies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-23-net-neutrality-and-monopolies/Obviously net neutrality is a hot topic right now since the concept is getting so much press and so much attention from our government. I'm not sure that leg...Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-23-too-much-hilarity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-23-too-much-hilarity/I've been doing some catching up on all my usual haunts this morning, which includes reading the past week or so of entries from The Dilbert Blog. This entry...Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-22-like-global-temperature-our-graphs-go-up/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-22-like-global-temperature-our-graphs-go-up/I've made the habit of checking the traffic for flicker on a daily basis. Sometimes it's up a little higher, sometimes it's down a little lower, but it's alw...Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-22-must-be-a-slow-news-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-22-must-be-a-slow-news-day/It's not often that you see the Seattle Times bump articles like this to the front page: Getaways are thwarted as criminals tripped up by their baggy britche...Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-22-see-this-movie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-22-see-this-movie/Image: invtruthI just got back from watching An Invonvenient Truthhttp://www.climatecrisis.net/. In my book, this is the most important movie you can see rig...Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-21-how-frys-tried-to-screw-me-and-how-it-backfired/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-21-how-frys-tried-to-screw-me-and-how-it-backfired/I've had and am getting a projector this week. This onehttp://shop3.outpost.com/product/4551227;jsessionid=a4jX1BvU-GpXC4L-JVxNpg.node2?site=sr:SEARCH:MAINRS...Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-19-a-little-tired-of-server-problems/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-19-a-little-tired-of-server-problems/I've been putting up with a lot of problems from BlueHost recently. I didn't bother to link to them because their entire system has gone down for the second ...Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-17-beauty-contest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-17-beauty-contest/Open challenge - find somewhere more beautiful than the Northwest: !Kids on the beachhttp://static.flickr.com/44/1692735682be2d32ef0.jpghttp://www.flickr.com...Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-16-i-wish-i-knew-how-to-read-a-tracert/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-16-i-wish-i-knew-how-to-read-a-tracert/As my friend Ben mentions todayhttp://adlin.com/?p=51, we've both been having problems with our BlueHost-hosted web pages and the irony of Matt Heaton's post...Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-16-you-know-youre-the-big-kahuna-when/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-16-you-know-youre-the-big-kahuna-when/Image: Gates In the print edition of the Seattle Times today, Bill Gates' future retirementhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200306498...Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-7800-is-not-the-7700/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-7800-is-not-the-7700/Looking through reviews on the projectors has been a bit of an experience. What I would really like to do, obviously, is have a look at the picture before I ...Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-freedom-of-speech/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-freedom-of-speech/I came across -- don't ask how -- this mailinghttp://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200606/msg00114.html from Dave Farber's interesti...Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-php-css-and-other-acronyms/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-php-css-and-other-acronyms/I'm in a weird sort of halfway place when it comes to designing and coding web sites. I think I have a fairly good handle on how to layout and visualize what...Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-ridiculous/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-15-ridiculous/I've been doing work today on my laptop. I'm basically clicking around mining data and then entering it into a spreadsheet boring, I know, and the latest cop...Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-14-ethan-has-a-blog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-14-ethan-has-a-blog/I've been meaning to mention this, but my friend and business partner Ethan has just recently set up his own personal site at RabidSpaceDog.comhttp://www.rab...Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-14-online-shopping-will-be-the-death-of-me/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-14-online-shopping-will-be-the-death-of-me/!http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/ProductImageCompressAll125/24-014-108-06.jpgIt occurred to me that one way to circumvent the problem of wanting to ha...Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-13-gaining-legitimacy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-13-gaining-legitimacy/I meant to post this earlier, but it's good news so I'm posting it anyway. I'm happy to say that throwing significant link love at Kotaku seems to have at le...Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-13-jacob-graduates-jason-cant-hold-a-camera/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-13-jacob-graduates-jason-cant-hold-a-camera/Here's the video I took of my friend's speech at an awards ceremony:Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-12-how-to-get-my-digg/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-12-how-to-get-my-digg/Put your link in like this: Gigantic fireball spotted on galactic rampage http://digg.com/science/GiganticfireballspottedongalacticrampageThanks to data from...Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-12-the-blog-savvy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-12-the-blog-savvy/One of the main reasons I spend so much time blogging is that I want to get better at it. It seems like kind of a redundant goal - but this has been fun so f...Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-10-damn-fingers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-10-damn-fingers/I was going to have an awesome video of the naked bike ride that flew past us over at the University of Washington today, but I managed to hit the wrong butt...Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-10-slashdot-gets-all-new-and-stuff/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-10-slashdot-gets-all-new-and-stuff/Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/, one of the most freqently visited but ugliest websites I've ever seen, has finall un-uglified itself. I gather there was a cont...Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-08-opera-dealbreakers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-08-opera-dealbreakers/I've been trying opera for a few days now, and I've managed to find fixes for a number of the differences I found earlierhttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.p...Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-08-thank-you-digital-audio-and-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-08-thank-you-digital-audio-and-blogging/I feel like I just experienced "web 2.0." While reading my friend Ben's bloghttp://www.adlin.com, I clicked through his blogroll to Mark Boulton's bloghttp:/...Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-07-29-is-the-number/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-07-29-is-the-number/The number of drafts I have in my Wordpress queue. It's a little ridiculous. I think it's a part of my "immediacy" issue when I blog. For some reason, it's a...Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-07-summer-projects/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-07-summer-projects/I'm thinking of working on a number of summer projects this year. something about the sun in the air and a disposable income gives me the irresistible urge t...Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-06-seo-and-getting-web-traffic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-06-seo-and-getting-web-traffic/I don't want to jump the gun on this too much, since I plan to write a bigger piece on it later but I know myself - if I don't write it immediately, I might ...Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-05-a-brief-foray-with-opera/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-05-a-brief-foray-with-opera/I'm writing this using the new Opera beta 9 which I just downloaded yesterday. I'm trying it out a little bit to see how it feels, since the numbers show it ...Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-05-its-a-bird-its-a-planeits-a-liger/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-05-its-a-bird-its-a-planeits-a-liger/You bet. As my friend Ethan who just got his personal site up and running over at RabidSpaceDog.com pointed out to me, this thing is real: Image: A Liger!htt...Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-05-stupid-late/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-05-stupid-late/People left over an hour and a half ago, I meant to go to bed an hour ago, and instead i'm up troubleshooting the new flicker linkboxhttp://www.flickergaming...Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-04-more-quick-thoughts-on-economics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-04-more-quick-thoughts-on-economics/I've said beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/04/22/economics-vs-human-rights/ the economic incentives are the most potent incentives in human ...Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-04-the-browsers-and-their-differences/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-04-the-browsers-and-their-differences/My friend Benhttp://adlin.com/?p=45 linked to an interesting articlehttp://www.musingsfrommars.org/2006/05/all-the-lovely-browsers.html on the differences in...Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-02-weird-adobe-news/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-02-weird-adobe-news/Thishttp://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2006/06/02/adobemakesmicrosoftremovepdfsupport.html is werid: Microsoft had been planning to support Adob...Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-01-its-a-good-faith-world-online/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-01-its-a-good-faith-world-online/I think that, desptie the "cesspools" that often crop up in totally open arenas, the internet, especially the newer blog-related community, is a very open an...Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-01-ummstop-speeding/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-06-01-ummstop-speeding/There's an articlehttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003031933tickets02e.html in the Seattle Times today about how there has been an increasing...Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-30-i-cant-make-up-my-mind-on-global-warmingno-wait-i-can/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-30-i-cant-make-up-my-mind-on-global-warmingno-wait-i-can/Image: Global WarmingI've seen a few posts recently notably this onehttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/05/capitalismtot.html, and this onehttp://blog.tomevslin.co...Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-30-im-confusticated/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-30-im-confusticated/Man, when I figure this one out, I'm gonna be so happy. QuickTime makes no sense. I'm starting with a 27 megabyte video, 800x600 resolution, 12.5 fps. Makes ...Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-30-writers-block/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-30-writers-block/As with many things, I think the solution to writers block is simply to put pen to paper. Or whatever the digital equivalent would be. Every now and again I ...Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-28-neener-neener/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-28-neener-neener/I just realized that I actually beat Joystiq to one of their stories this week on Flicker: Flicker - I bet they all play Alliance!http://www.flickergaming.ne...Sun, 28 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-27-things-that-make-me-irrationally-mad-part-2348-in-an-ongoing-series/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-27-things-that-make-me-irrationally-mad-part-2348-in-an-ongoing-series/I am an annoying cyclist. This is because I follow the rules. When you're riding a bycicle, the rules of the road do actually apply to you. You can get a spe...Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-26-the-highly-desireable-plumba/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-26-the-highly-desireable-plumba/I'm pretty sure it's not what they had in mind, but spacing can make a big difference: Image: Timon and Plumba, right?Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-25-lots-can-change-in-four-years/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-25-lots-can-change-in-four-years/I'm glad to see Microsoft is actually doing some cool things in the four years it's had to develop Office 2007. As I understand it, the whole deal is suppose...Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-25-waking-up/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-25-waking-up/I've pretty much been a night owl for years. I think the trend began in high school and really took off when I realized that "college" was just a code word f...Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-24-busy-the-downsides/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-24-busy-the-downsides/In my mind, there are plenty of upsides to being busy in the summer - it staves off boredom, i'm hopefully doing interesting things, i feel productive, and i...Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-23-drm-free-no-way/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-23-drm-free-no-way/I hope eMusichttp://www.emusic.com/about/index.html?fref=700004 does well. I really do. There's an articlehttp://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/emusic.ars ...Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-23-i-never-had-a-huge-trampoline/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-23-i-never-had-a-huge-trampoline/As I'm sitting here getting shit done for the day, it's drizzling outside and I've got the screen door open so I can hear the rain. I can also hear the kids ...Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-22-im-a-mac-ads/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-22-im-a-mac-ads/I've been so busy recently between Flicker, getting back into the swing of my real job for the summer, and catching up with people that time for posting in g...Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-21-poor-cat/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-21-poor-cat/Don't get me wrong...I love cats...but this is one hilarious commercial:Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-20-the-geek-dance/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-20-the-geek-dance/One of the funny things about being a geek like myself is that you spend most of your life going around trying to convince people you're more or less normal-...Sat, 20 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-19-guild-tabard-low-class-guild/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-19-guild-tabard-low-class-guild/I'm a huge fan of very casual guild gaming in World of Warcraft - which unfortunately prevents me from running endgame, since neither I nor any of my guildma...Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-19-macbooks-make-good-pcs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-19-macbooks-make-good-pcs/According to Macworld News, it's perfectly fun to run windows on Apple's new MacBooks: linkhttp://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/18/handson/index.php?lsrc=mwr...Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-18-two-good-reasons/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-18-two-good-reasons/One of the little amusements I find in life is asking people about why they make trivial decisions like what wrist they wear their watch on and then listen t...Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-15-on-the-road/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-15-on-the-road/Driving from Los Angeles to Seattle...posting will be light.Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-15-social-tagging-is-my-friend/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-15-social-tagging-is-my-friend/I wrote up an awesome article on how to run TIE Fighter in Windows XP today and posted it to Flicker, then I submitted the article to Digg, hoping that it wo...Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-14-the-blog-bounce/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-14-the-blog-bounce/I'm going to steal the term from Jason Calacanis and Weblogs Inc in the hopes that it's actually talking about our own statistics at Flicker: Note: the spike...Sun, 14 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-13-more-about-flicker/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-13-more-about-flicker/Aren't you tired of hearing about it yet? Probably. It just occurred to me this morning that one of the consequences of running a blog where 75% of the peopl...Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-13-moving/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-13-moving/I spend a lot of time "streamlining" with my personal effects. It goes completely counter-intuitively with my drive to acquire geeky new shit all the time. S...Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-12-special-treatment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-12-special-treatment/Ballmer of Microsoft says that Google wants special treatment in IE7http://news.com.com/2100-10323-6071433.html?part=rss&tag=6071433&subj=news. Frankly, I'm ...Fri, 12 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-11-design-with-purpose/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-11-design-with-purpose/I've been doing a lot of web design, maintenance, and coding recently. If you had asked me two or three years ago what kind of stuff I'd be doing for work or...Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-11-digg-flicker-please/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-11-digg-flicker-please/That's right; I'm not above begging. I just submitted Flicker as a link on DIGG, if you're cool you should go digg it: Flicker on Digghttp://www.digg.com/tec...Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-11-introducing-favorites/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-11-introducing-favorites/I'm going to start a new category called favorites. This is going to be where I tag all of those posts that I'm proud of, regardless of their literary value....Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-10-a-note-before-i-head-out-the-door/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-10-a-note-before-i-head-out-the-door/I've always thoughthttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/03/15/internet-voyeur-part-1/ that the first post anyone makes is a fairly important one, whet...Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-10-flicker-gaming-for-real/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-10-flicker-gaming-for-real/Lest I miss an opportunity to pimp the site I've been working on for the past month and a half -- Flicker Gaminghttp://www.flickergaming.net is now live. We'...Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-10-launch-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-10-launch-day/- Flicker Gaminghttp://www.flickergaming.net is officially live and open for business. - The site had problems this morning for hopefully not more than an ho...Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-09-thats-a-good-feeling/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-09-thats-a-good-feeling/I wrote this whole thing out, and then I realized it's really just a long-winded, fairly technical version of an "I did this today, then I did this, then I w...Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-09-wii-will-prevail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-09-wii-will-prevail/I am rooting for Nintendo so hard. Amidst the ridiculous "console wars" between Microsoft and Sony, it's so wonderful to see Nintendo putter along misnaming ...Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-08-bumped/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-08-bumped/One of the things that always makes me sad about writing here on Jason-Preston.com is how temporary everything ends up being. Every now and then, I'll put in...Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-07-how-to-import-a-mysql-dump-with-phpmyadmin/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-07-how-to-import-a-mysql-dump-with-phpmyadmin/This is partly here for my own benefit and partly here because it took me about 10 minutes of googling to come up with this linkhttp://www.tamba2.org.uk/word...Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-07-learn-by-doing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-07-learn-by-doing/Only a seriously lazy or idiotic person would wait until 3 days before launch to go about the process of switching web hosts. Which is exactly what I'm in th...Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-06-the-derby/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-06-the-derby/!http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/horse/LawyerRon060415i.jpgToday is Kentucky Derbyhttp://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/derbycoverage/derbyentrants/brotherder...Sat, 06 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-05-nobody-thought-it-could-be-done/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-05-nobody-thought-it-could-be-done/In the admittedly wacky "SoYouWanna patent something" article, an entire subset is dedicated to the idea that your invention must be non-obvious: Non-obvious...Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-05-pages-went-where/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-05-pages-went-where/A few astute readers might notice that the "Travel" and "Portfolio" pages have disappeared from the top navigation bar on my site. This is largely because I ...Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-05-small-accomplishments/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-05-small-accomplishments/As long as I'm posting about minor changes to the website, I thought I'd also point out that I've just more or less successfully written my first php file an...Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-04-how-big-is-your-megaphone/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-04-how-big-is-your-megaphone/!http://www.bbc.co.uk/relationships/images/300/manmegaphone.jpgThe Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is probably one of the most interesting places to visit, not...Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-04-jumping-that-shark/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-04-jumping-that-shark/According to the Harvard Crimson Well, I can't link inside facebook! Facebook has opened up to business e-mailshttp://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513...Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-04-the-games-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-04-the-games-list/This list comes up often enough in my head that I figure I should go ahead and put it down. Maybe someday I'll add it to the sidebar with my other lists. The...Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-03-superman-returns/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-03-superman-returns/There is a ridiculously cool HD trailer available for the new Superman movie herehttp://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/supermanreturns/hd/. I recommend you go che...Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-02-a-ptgaj-tgmthta-ptgaj-tgmtht/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-02-a-ptgaj-tgmthta-ptgaj-tgmtht/it's a habit of mine to think about silly, pointless questions when i have everything better to do. for example, just now i was wondering if i could successf...Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-02-the-definition-of-irony/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-02-the-definition-of-irony/I just read Fred Wilson's most recent posthttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/05/iamprochoice.html on, loosely speaking, net neutrality, and then I wrote a long an...Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-02-web-statistics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-02-web-statistics/I haven't gotten ballsy enough to put a sitemeter up on Jason-Preston.com yet. Although I track my statistics obsessively, I feel like there's a minimum emba...Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-01-craigslist/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-01-craigslist/I love Craigslist just as much as the next bloke, but does anyone know why it still costs $75 to post a job listing? I understand that it's a lot cheaper tha...Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-01-open-forum/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-05-01-open-forum/In the interest of providing an open forum for discussion which the school is apparently unwilling to provide us via e-mail, I have posted the full text of b...Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-29-new-phone-and-it-works/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-29-new-phone-and-it-works/!http://www.ixwin.de/handy/tmobilesdamusicheadset.jpgAfter a week or so of wandering around with no service whatsoever, I finally decided to pop into a T-mob...Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-28-net-neutrality/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-28-net-neutrality/There was another artcilehttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neutral27apr27,1,3974734.story in the LA Times yesterday about how divisive the issue of net n...Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-27-featured/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-27-featured/I don't know why I'm proud of this, but a portion of one of my comments got bumped to the front pagehttp://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/04/dynamiccluster.html on ...Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-26-filming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-26-filming/I don't have much time to write today, so enjoy the picture instead: !Brian and the gunhttp://static.flickr.com/48/1355426529ae4d96243.jpghttp://www.flickr.c...Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-26-reboot-bbc/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-26-reboot-bbc/This is coolhttp://open.bbc.co.uk. I wonder if the new site design has to actually work, or if I can simply construct a static but snazzy looking page that t...Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-25-on-set/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-25-on-set/I'm spending basically all of today and tomorrow as well on set for my friend's student film called The Last Spinhttp://www.corridorproductions.com. It's an ...Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-25-second-sun/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-25-second-sun/!Tatooinehttp://www.dvdcc.com/images/misc/swdvdcaps/anh-sun1.jpgApparently, there is evidencehttp://www.eurekalert.org/pubreleases/2006-04/bri-emf042406.php ...Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-24-space-aint-what-it-used-to-be/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-24-space-aint-what-it-used-to-be/According to the Big Bang theory, some day in ancient history, the entire universe simply exploded from one ridiculously subatomic particle nevermind what wa...Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-23-happy-birthday-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-23-happy-birthday-2/I've seen a lot of people give their blogs a little "happy birthday" love on the anniversary of their starting post. I think that's usually just an excuse to...Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-22-economics-vs-human-rights/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-22-economics-vs-human-rights/I've learned pretty much one thing from my three courses in economics and countless classes in world history, politics, and culture: economics trumps human r...Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-20-changing-the-press/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-20-changing-the-press/I ran across a cool articlehttp://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/04/20/mclrlbk.html about how the relationship between the White House an...Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-20-digital-dialogues/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-20-digital-dialogues/Image: FullertonI just got back from one of the talks that make up the digital dialogueshttp://www.oxy.edu/x5580.xml series of speakers at Occidental College...Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-20-it-happened/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-20-it-happened/I was really curious how long the Google front page be it standard or customized would last without advertising on it. It's such a tempting target! Alas, tod...Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-19-life-at-microsoft/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-19-life-at-microsoft/Being from Seattle, I know and have known a lot of people who work for Microsoft. My dad worked for Microsoft. I've been to Microsoft campus several times, I...Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-19-live-drive/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-19-live-drive/As part of Microsoft's Windows Live push on the web, they're apparently planning to offer a service called Live Drivehttp://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/...Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-18-halfway-man/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-18-halfway-man/It's amazing how many things I wish I'd never written. Or that I at least wish I hadn't posted online. I'm not going to link to any of them because they're a...Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-18-my-star-wars-policy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-18-my-star-wars-policy/Yesterday I was flipping through one of my favorite magazines, PC Gamer, when I noticed a serious problem that has recently shown up in pop culture: there ar...Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-18-phones/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-18-phones/This thinghttp://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,73092,00.html is ridiculous. I hear it's going to be the new bond phonehttp://www.ipodhub.net/articles/20060412nok...Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-17-bloggers-wanted/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-17-bloggers-wanted/In the process of putting together Flicker for its re-launch in May, we're looking to hire one more blogger to help make something awesome. If you think you'...Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-17-mimes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-17-mimes/Image removed — original hosted on WordPress Mimeshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/130394435/Originally uploaded by Jason Prestonhttp://www.flickr.com/...Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-17-we-have-color/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-17-we-have-color/...in the entry headers. I complained recently about how it was impossiblehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/04/11/things-that-are-apparently-imposs...Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-16-the-movies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-16-the-movies/I think part of what has always drawn me to movies is their role in taking over my sometimes overactive imagination. I'm one of those guys who actually likes...Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-15-slow-on-the-uptake/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-15-slow-on-the-uptake/One of the features I really like about Safari is how, on the link bar, you can have some set to drop down. So you can have a "blogs" group on your link bar ...Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-13-hooray-blizzard/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-13-hooray-blizzard/One of the reasons I like World of Warcraft better than anything Sony Online Entertainment has put out on the market is that Blizzard is actually committedht...Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-12-google-calendar-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-12-google-calendar-2/I posted beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/03/13/google-calendar/ about how Google was working through the kinds on creating a calendar setup...Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-12-my-next-read/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-12-my-next-read/I've been meaning for a while to actually read The Blind Watchmakerhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393315703/flickergaming-20?creative=327641&camp=14...Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-11-never-in-a-hurry/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-11-never-in-a-hurry/I realized today, as I raced through the streets in my car, that the only time I'm ever in a hurry is when I'm in my car. It's kind of odd, but I can be ten ...Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-11-review-shure-e2c/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-11-review-shure-e2c/Image: E2chttp://www.jason-preston.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/e2c.jpgI've been using the Shure E2chttp://www.shurestore.com/earphones/eseriese2c.html hea...Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-11-things-that-are-apparently-impossible/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-11-things-that-are-apparently-impossible/1. Changing the color of an entry header when using K2 with Wordpress. 2. Extending the lines around the navigation bar to stretch offscreen on both ends....Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-10-business-model-innovation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-10-business-model-innovation/Fred Wilson wrote a posthttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2006/04/technicalinnov.html yesterday about Innovation as a driving force in new businesses. I think he's la...Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-10-hooray-for-disney/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-10-hooray-for-disney/I don't get the Wall Street Journal, but Jeff Jarvis doeshttp://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/10/exploding-tv-ka-bloom/, and he tells us that Disney ...Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-10-writing-its-a-process/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-10-writing-its-a-process/Today I finished the frist draft of the first short story for which I've ever finished a draft. The main problems I run in to when I try to write creatively ...Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-08-learning-the-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-08-learning-the-internet/I just successfully installed, set up, and test-ran phpAdsNewhttp://phpadsnew.com/two/index.html, the free open-source ad server on Flicker. In fact, over th...Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-07-beta-stages/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-07-beta-stages/I don't know about everyone else, but I'm tired of everything being in Beta. It seems like launching a site or service in "beta" is all the rage these days, ...Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-07-t-mobile-woes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-07-t-mobile-woes/For some reason, T-mobile offers virtually no service where I spend 90% of my time. It's frustrating because the service is cheap and excellent everywhere el...Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-06-blogger/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-06-blogger/Does it piss anyone else off that blogger makes it ridiculously hard to find anyone's rss feed? I'm assuming users have to go somewhere in the control panel ...Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-06-oh-the-government/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-06-oh-the-government/The real question: how long until this gets buried or overshadowed by some other urgent piece of newshttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/washington/06cnd-leak....Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-06-watching-star-wars/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-06-watching-star-wars/I'm halfway through watching the Empire Strikes Back for the first time in at least a year, and it's the first of the old Star Wars movies I've seen since I ...Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-05-i-use-gaim/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-05-i-use-gaim/One of the tragedys of the modern internet it how poorly connected the world is through instant messaging. It seems like everyone in the US uses AIM, everyon...Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-04-charging-the-user/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-04-charging-the-user/I just stole a link from Fred's Delicious that looked interesting. Charles Hudson recently wrote a posthttp://www.charleshudson.net/weblog/archives/000190.ht...Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-04-delay-is-done/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-04-delay-is-done/According to Yahoohttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060404/apongoco/delay, Tom DeLay has decided he will resign from Congress sometime before June. Given his trac...Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-04-two-notes-on-wired/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-04-two-notes-on-wired/1. For a long time I've made the habit of checking the WIRED Newshttp://www.wired.com/ page for cool and interesting stories, and it was one of the first thi...Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-03-open-source-drm/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-03-open-source-drm/Sun calls it DReaMhttp://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70548-0.html?tw=wnstorypageprev2. According to Wired, Sun Microsystems is working on a DRM scheme based...Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-02-i-missed-the-111-patch-notes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-02-i-missed-the-111-patch-notes/Yesterday there was a wonderful listhttp://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?ForumName=wow-realm-thoriumbrotherhood&ThreadID=30284 released of fictional...Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-02-laser-tv/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-02-laser-tv/!http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/03/business/03hdtv190.jpgMistubishi is expected to demohttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/business/03hdtv.html a ...Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-01-more-april-fools/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-01-more-april-fools/The MAFIAAhttp://www.mafiaa.org/: April 1, 2006 - Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. MPAA chairman Dan Glickman and Recording Industry Association o...Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-01-the-jokes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-04-01-the-jokes/I'm never really sure what makes a good April Fools joke, since most of my ideas are either too cruel or not actually funny. But I'm pretty sure this is just...Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-31-e-mail-woes-continued/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-31-e-mail-woes-continued/I'm one of those people that has too many e-mail addresses. I check all of them pretty regularly - even my spam-catching account - but I have a hard time pic...Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-31-email-spam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-31-email-spam/I was looking through my spam-catcher account you know, the e-mail account I have simply to throw at all the online forms that inevitably add the bulk to you...Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-30-my-ipod-case/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-30-my-ipod-case/In one of life's great ironies, the heavy-cloth case I bought to protect my ipod from getting scratched has in fact scratched and marked my ipod more than...Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-30-the-key/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-30-the-key/I've posted before about how I wish my writing was better. It's generally true that I'm never actually happy with anything I've written. Whether or not I act...Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-29-insomnia/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-29-insomnia/A little dose of insomnia never hurt anyone, right? I can't believe I've been up past 4:30am for the past four nights in a row. I can't get my schedule strai...Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-29-which-apple-music-store/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-29-which-apple-music-store/Once again, the Beattles are having legal problems with the other Apple the Beatles own Apple Corps, and have since before the formation of Apple Computer. T...Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-28-busy-little-sidebar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-28-busy-little-sidebar/So I've spent some time adding things to the sidebar today. I added two little buttons on the right that point to both my 101 listhttp://www.jason-preston.co...Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-28-my-101-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-28-my-101-list/I'm going to steal a page almosthttp://literally.barelyfitz.com/ literally from Ted Leonsishttp://ted.aol.com/index.php?id=4' blog and make my own 101 list: ...Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-27-advertising-or-content/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-27-advertising-or-content/Last July, Fred Wilson wrote a posthttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2005/07/trackingisgoo.html about tracking and advertising that made me think about what exactly d...Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-26-la-sentiments/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-26-la-sentiments/I heard someone yesterday say that "LA is a fun place to visit, and a great place to leave." The more time I spend here, the more I'm inclined to agree with ...Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-26-yahoo-is-out/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-26-yahoo-is-out/!http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/YahooPublisherNetworklogo3.gifI've been doing a lot of little things in preparation for getting Flicker re-made into it...Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-25-how-to-make-a-fake-mac/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-25-how-to-make-a-fake-mac/Out of curiosity, I decided to see how close I could get my laptop to looking like a Mac. As usually happens when I set out to do something like this, I disc...Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-23-leading-the-charge/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-23-leading-the-charge/Last summer, I took some flack for hating on Applehttp://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2005/07/26/apples-image/ and the way they name their operating syste...Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-23-the-scientology-episode/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-23-the-scientology-episode/Curious about the latest banned South Park episode? So was I. It turns out that the full episode is available on YouTube herehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=SSj9g...Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-23-this-is-ridiculous/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-23-this-is-ridiculous/I think that the French law is the most reasonable thing I've heard of in the digital consumer sphere. For the US Government to be backing Applehttp://www.en...Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-22-skype/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-22-skype/I've had Skype for a while now, but I've never really had an opportunity to use it much since practically eveyone I know is on AIM. I like AIM - it's a great...Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-21-business-101/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-21-business-101/I've always thought that the best and quickest way to learn something is to try it. If you want to learn French, move to France. If you want to learn how to ...Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-21-firefox-20-beta/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-21-firefox-20-beta/I made the mistake of actually downloading the new Firefox 2.0 alphahttp://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/19/firefox-20-alpha-released/. This is not becuase it d...Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-21-five-years/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-21-five-years/I can't decide if it feels like a long five years or a short five years, but today marks five years since my Grandfather died. Oddly enough, his obituaryhttp...Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-20-isolated-incidents/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-20-isolated-incidents/Some would call this evidence of global climate change, but it's probably just a "few isolated incidents." Thousands Feared Homeless in Australiahttp://news....Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-19-echo-chamber/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-19-echo-chamber/Anyone who takes a look at Boing Boinghttp://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/18/mpaariaabsanobreak.html has probably already seen thishttp://www.freedom-to-tinker...Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-19-follow-up-lost-luggage/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-19-follow-up-lost-luggage/Turns out that if you're going to have your luggage lost, Southwest Airlines isn't a bad place to do it. They found it by today and my friend picked it up fo...Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-19-how-to-piss-me-off/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-19-how-to-piss-me-off/In a word: incompetence. Somehow, Southwest Airlines managed to lose my baggage between Midland/Odessa and LAX. One of my biggest pet peeves is that people c...Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-18-v-for-vendetta/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-18-v-for-vendetta/!http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/moviepix/warnerbrothers/vforvendetta/vforvendettanewteaser.jpgI just got back from watching V fo...Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-17-topdesk/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-17-topdesk/!http://www.otakusoftware.com/topdesk/images/screentileallwindowsalltitlest.jpghttp://www.otakusoftware.com/topdesk/index.htmlThere's a great utility called ...Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-17-weekends/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-17-weekends/I keep thinking it's the weekend because I'm on vacation. It's not though. But does anyone have the feeling that there's an unusually little amount going on ...Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-16-houston-we-have-permalinks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-16-houston-we-have-permalinks/Thanks to a little encouragement from Corvushttp://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/, I went ahead and screwed around with files that can permanently delete the inte...Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-16-itunes-movies-suckduh/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-16-itunes-movies-suckduh/Here's the articlehttp://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2152063/first-full-length-movie-debuts I pulled off digg. It chronicles the complaints of people who bough...Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-16-san-angelo-tx/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-16-san-angelo-tx/It's a surprisingly beautiful day here. It was supposed to be stormy today, but instead it got over 80 degrees and looked like this: !The Seathttp://static.f...Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-conan-is-the-best-thing-ever/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-conan-is-the-best-thing-ever/I'm really sad that I can't actually embed this video in my blog come on NBC!, but this is a phenominal clip that involves Conan O'Brian, Britney Spears, and...Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-if-you-buy-climate-change/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-if-you-buy-climate-change/...and personally, I do. I recognize that not everything is Catasrophe, but I think you'd be stupid to honestly ignore the trends in global weather. Anyways,...Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-internet-voyeur-part-1/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-internet-voyeur-part-1/I guess I'd call myself an Internet Voyeur. Or maybe just a technology Voyeur. I like to see what other people do online and with their computers. I like to ...Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-permalinks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-15-permalinks/Back in July or August, when I was first setting up WordPress on this site, I decided to try and arrange my permalinks so that the structure made sense. That...Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-14-flock-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-14-flock-again/I mentioned a few days ago that I downloaded Flock to try out the browser. It's cool and it made a good first impression, but the more I try to use it, the m...Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-14-lightsabers-are-so-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-14-lightsabers-are-so-cool/If I knew how to do this from a technical standpoint, I would have done it so long ago. Instead I'll just have to watch these two play with the coolest toys ...Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-14-waiting-for-a-flight/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-14-waiting-for-a-flight/I'm waiting for my connecting flight here in the Albuquerque airport where my two-hour layover became a lot more fun when I noticed this sign: "Free Wireless...Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-13-google-calendar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-13-google-calendar/I don't complain about the calendar built into Outlook much because I never use it. I never use it because it sucks unbelievably. Every time I see someone us...Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-13-where-video-sharing-must-go-or-did-you-see-family-guy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-13-where-video-sharing-must-go-or-did-you-see-family-guy/I watched the new episode of Family Guy on TV last night. It's probably the first time I've seen the show on TV in ages. As I've said beforehttp://www.jason-...Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-12-the-synching-problem/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-12-the-synching-problem/I love my desktop. I'm the kind of guy who will probably never feel comfortable with using just a laptop as my main computer. Desktops are generally faster, ...Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-11-obscure-russian-movies/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-11-obscure-russian-movies/I'm going to go see Night Watchhttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/search/movie/title/http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808640168, which actually isn't...Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-10-my-midterm-music/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-10-my-midterm-music/To celebrate my midterm today in Music of Africa and the Middle East, I'm posting a sample song of the awesome music we have to know for class. This is a tra...Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-09-antibiotics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-09-antibiotics/After feeling sick for almost two weeks, it has taken two days for "Azithromycin" to make me feel almost completely better. Thank you Alexander Fleminghttp:/...Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-09-flock-one-step-more/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-09-flock-one-step-more/I just downloaded and installed the "somewhere between alpha and beta" version of Flockhttp://www.flock.com/developer/, available on their site. It's a new b...Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-09-nbc-continues-to-get-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-09-nbc-continues-to-get-it/You can no longer find NBC clips all over YouTube, since after all, they're copyrighted video and it's a violation to put them up in the first place. However...Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-08-livecom/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-08-livecom/I'm not sure why Microsoft is running both start.comwww.start.com and live.com against each other or maybe they're not...I think start.com is still just a "s...Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-07-a-little-rss-trick/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-07-a-little-rss-trick/Thishttp://jarodrussell.livejournal.com/514749.html is a pretty neat trick: being able to embed livejournal entries on your own web site courtesy of jarodrus...Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-06-being-sick/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-06-being-sick/Being sick is getting old. I feel like I've been fighting off some sort of cold, fever, cough, or sinus infection for almost three weeks, and if anything I'm...Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-06-mcafee-is-malware/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-06-mcafee-is-malware/I have a piece of software on my system. I didn't install it, but it runs every time I start my computer. It sits in the system tray with a little icon, and ...Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-05-elevators/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-05-elevators/Today I got stuck in an elevator. The doors closed and it took me to floor 13 where it stopped and refused to open the doors again, which surprsied me becaus...Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-04-live-intro/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-04-live-intro/Whoever did this is awesome:Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-03-busy-week/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-03-busy-week/Starting tomorrow I'm going to be ridiculously busy. I spend tomorrow and sunday shooting for both my film and my film partner Jeff's film. Then I have to pu...Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-03-telecom-internet-stupidity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-03-telecom-internet-stupidity/I've been keeping an eye on this business about "fast lane" internet that's been floating around big executive heads recently. It sounds utterly stupid to me...Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-02-start-from-the-solution/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-02-start-from-the-solution/There's a lot of interest right now in DRM, digital audio, and the record industry. That's understandable since now is the time that DRM file formats are bei...Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-02-the-village-is-a-good-movie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-02-the-village-is-a-good-movie/I saw The Villagehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/ a few days ago, and because so many people have told me so many times how horrible of a movie it was in...Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-01-the-blogging-community/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-01-the-blogging-community/If I had a category called "whining," I think this would fit in nicely. It'll have to go in "Technology" instead. I think a lot about "the blogging community...Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-01-this-is-pretty-sweet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-03-01-this-is-pretty-sweet/I grabbed the link from Engadgethttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/mac-mini-inside-an-nes-what-could-be-more-beautiful/, but someone has managed to flit a Ma...Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-i-love-blogrolls/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-i-love-blogrolls/I think blogrolls are the bread and butter of blogging in many ways. Or maybe they're the toaster, because really you need the blogging bit to make it all wo...Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-ok-go-a-million-ways/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-ok-go-a-million-ways/My brother, possibly the only person I know who is capable of finding odder things on the internet than I am, sent me the link to this really cool video. Che...Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-tag-spamming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-tag-spamming/One of the cruel realities about the internet is that every new innovation will be accompanied by an equally creative annoyance. I've posted beforehttp://www...Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-walkout/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-28-walkout/!http://static.flickr.com/53/10569344170fc479e93m.jpgI met Edward James Olmoshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001579/ today. He came to Oxy for a panel discussion...Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-26-comment-spam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-26-comment-spam/Comment spam is getting out of control. Most of the time, bloggers just deal with it, or approve their own comments, or develop some method of dealing with i...Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-26-your-funny-news-for-the-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-26-your-funny-news-for-the-day/According to the BBC, A sudanese man has been forced to take a goathttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm as his wife after he was caught having...Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-25-oh-bond/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-25-oh-bond/Casino Royale will be an interesting film. They really need it to kick some ass. In updateshttp://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=4515009: they finally found...Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-25-the-problem-with-performancing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-25-the-problem-with-performancing/On the whole, I like performancinghttp://performancing.com/firefox. I like the idea behind it and I like the rich text setup for writing. It reminds me of th...Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-25-the-scourge/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-25-the-scourge/My friend Ben Adlin, who is very interested in typography and design, tagged an article for me on del.icio.us called The Scourge of Arialhttp://www.ms-studio...Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-24-begin-filming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-24-begin-filming/Tomorrow and Sunday I will be filming the bulk of my student film for this semester, but unfortunately I forgot to even try to rent a boom mike, so I'm just ...Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-24-parking-stall-of-temptation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-24-parking-stall-of-temptation/Do you ever have the urge to park just because you see a good spot? I think I'm defective because this happens to me a lot. Whenever I'm driving back to camp...Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-23-ie7-beta-reviewed/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-23-ie7-beta-reviewed/!IE7http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:GdjBQMEMNHQu4M:www.jusspress.com/photos/14495/20050815/075611.jpgAs I mentionedhttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=461 ...Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-23-speaking-of-disney/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-23-speaking-of-disney/I posted several days ago about how Disney gets it, but I spotted an article on Business Week that really went over the bold moves that Disney has been makin...Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-22-a-published-author/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-22-a-published-author/I hesitate to say that I've ever published any of my writing, since most of everything I've ever "published" has been "self-published." Basically, that means...Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-22-friedman-im-disappointed/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-22-friedman-im-disappointed/Note: I x-posted this on my livejournal, and there is an excellent discussionhttp://jasonp107.livejournal.com/132080.html in the comments about the issues in...Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-21-up-in-four-hours/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-21-up-in-four-hours/I have to be up and on a plane that leaves for California at 7am in the morning - this is going to be a painful flight. Also, on Fred's recommendationhttp://...Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-19-more-from-whistler/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-19-more-from-whistler/Another great day on the slopes. I took a video or two and uploaded them to YouTube - just click on the image below to stream the video. I also uploaded more...Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-19-nbc-is-halfway-there/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-19-nbc-is-halfway-there/!http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:OGc4ulfObeU59M:www.tvsquad.com/images/2005/05/NBC-logo-RGB-pos.jpgI have a longer post on this subject brewing in my m...Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-18-hello-from-whistler/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-18-hello-from-whistler/!Spencer and Ihttp://static.flickr.com/29/101392411600a94e813m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/101392411/ "Photo Sharing"Thought I'd make a quick p...Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-17-getting-ready-to-go/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-17-getting-ready-to-go/Today my family, a few friends, and I are driving up to Whistler, Canada, where we will spend the weekend skiing. I fully expect to come back with hundreds o...Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-16-how-to-make-my-blogroll-in-two-posts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-16-how-to-make-my-blogroll-in-two-posts/Bamhttp://chervokas.typepad.com/trickster/2006/02/mediawantsto.html and Bamhttp://chervokas.typepad.com/trickster/2006/02/gutlesspressr.html. Trickster has n...Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-16-media-wants-to-be-unchained/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-16-media-wants-to-be-unchained/Perhaps the cry "media wants to be free" should be renamed. I was pointed by Fred Wilson this morning to the post Media Wants to be Free But Not in the Way Y...Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-16-steve-martins-14th-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-16-steve-martins-14th-2/I hate to post so much media in a row, but honestly, how did I miss this?Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-14-happy-valentines-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-14-happy-valentines-day/!http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/02-10-06-starwars/Lunaran1.jpg ganked from somethingawfulhttp://www.somethingawful.com/articles.ph...Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-14-i-do-love-good-comedy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-14-i-do-love-good-comedy/In the aftermath of the Cheney - Whittington shootout, the seattle timeshttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002804046cheneyjokes14.html has co...Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-14-itunes-gone-wild/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-14-itunes-gone-wild/According to the apple websitehttp://www.apple.com/itunes/1billion/, the iTunes music store is nearing it's one billionth song download, and apple is rewardi...Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-13-around-the-world/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-13-around-the-world/I took a picture last night that reminded me a lot of one that I took last fall at Sussex. I feel incredibly lucky to live on such a pretty campus. !http://s...Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-13-phenominal-news/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-13-phenominal-news/I've written beforehttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=275 about how Terry Pratchett is one of the most creative and hilarious authors I've ever read, and his fa...Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-13-wow-grinding-guide/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-13-wow-grinding-guide/Someone over at WoW Guru has gotten their hands on what is apparently the best formula for grinding in World of Warcraft. The title proudly proclaims: Grind ...Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-12-how-to-embed-video-in-wordpress-20/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-12-how-to-embed-video-in-wordpress-20/Like so many people, after upgrading to Wordpress 2.0, which is phenominal in almost every other way, I was suddenly unable to use the prepackaged code from ...Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-12-showing-off/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-12-showing-off/I'm showing off two things here. First, it's really sunny and warm here in the first half of February, even when there's a blizzard in NYC. Second, LightboxJ...Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-11-disney-gets-it/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-11-disney-gets-it/For the longest time, I've never really understood the differences that prevent TV channels from streaming their broadcasts live online. Actually, I still do...Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-11-sorted/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-11-sorted/With some help from my dad, I finally figured out what was making text in IE7 and, more annoyingly, in Outlook go cuckoo on me: the Ironically named ClearTyp...Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-11-the-amazing-source/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-11-the-amazing-source/I ganked this link from Joystiqhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/10/fun-with-physics-a-hl2-rube-goldberg-machine/, who got it from digg, but it's a relly cool u...Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-10-giving-ie-a-shot/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-10-giving-ie-a-shot/Now that Microsoft has finally released the first public beta of IE7http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx - I'm going to act like any ...Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-10-its-a-small-blogosphere/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-10-its-a-small-blogosphere/Today I talked briefly to Darren Herman, who is VP of Business Development at IGA Worldwide, the company that just raised $12 millionhttp://www.paidcontent.o...Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-10-spanish/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-10-spanish/I spent something like six academic years studying and learning to hate speaking Spanish. Something about the way classes are structured just made me more an...Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-09-how-much-fun-is-garfield/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-09-how-much-fun-is-garfield/I grabbed this linkhttp://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997 from theferretthttp://theferrett.livejournal.com/676829.html today, but honestl...Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-09-radical-cell-prossesor-please/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-09-radical-cell-prossesor-please/According to Forbeshttp://www.forbes.com/business/global/2006/0213/070A.html, Sony's PS3 will be shipping later this year with IBM's new radical Cell process...Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-08-quick-thought-on-ipods/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-08-quick-thought-on-ipods/!http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:JuIKOSk3p6ihRM:gearlog.com/photos/gearlog/images/1491/original.aspxI've seen a few postshttp://www.truthonthemarket.co...Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-08-the-face-of-desire/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-08-the-face-of-desire/That face is the slider version of the RazR, available in Koreahttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/08/motorola-razr-z-slider-launched-in-korea/: !http://www.enga...Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-07-feedblitz-working/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-07-feedblitz-working/I've gotten about five e-mails in the past day or so from Feedblitz telling me that I have a new subscriber, but it's shoved them all into the "subscribing" ...Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-07-more-on-e-mail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-07-more-on-e-mail/I missed Seth's earlier post on email stamps, but he's got a newer post where he clarifies why he's in favor of email stampshttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/seth...Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-06-e-mail-is-changing-how-exciting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-06-e-mail-is-changing-how-exciting/Aside from the "actual" media's coveragehttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html?r=2&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin,!http://scd.mm-c1.yimg.com/i...Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-06-oh-pleo-can-i-have-one/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-06-oh-pleo-can-i-have-one/!http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/124610-PLEOa.jpgThe possibly criminally insane genius behind the Furby has given us a brand new wonder: Pleo, the Ro...Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-06-the-new-k2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-06-the-new-k2/The newer K2 release, which I just upgraded to, has a few cool features like actually making this font look good, finally allowing my uploaded images to have...Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-05-a-little-music-love/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-05-a-little-music-love/The other day my friend Marc discovered a group called Ratatat, which I've been listening to quite a bit recently. Here's one of my favorite tracks, called "...Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-05-best-superbowl-commercial/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-05-best-superbowl-commercial/In my opinion, was from FedEx: Ifilm has them allhttp://www.ifilm.com/superbowl, but I need to find out how to link them individually.Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-05-super-bowl-sunday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-05-super-bowl-sunday/For the first time ever, I think I'm looking forward to the game almost as much as I'm looking forward to the commercials. This may also be the first time I ...Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-03-im-addicted/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-03-im-addicted/To redesigning web sites, I think. I'm in the slow process of giving Flicker Gaminghttp://www.flickergaming.net/blog. another makeover, mostly because I thou...Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-02-comment-item/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-02-comment-item/I finally got one of those sweet comment-listing sidebar items. Basically, it just keeps track of the latest posts with comments, and the latest commenters o...Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-02-howard-stern-rebel/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-02-howard-stern-rebel/The LA Times had an article today called Sirius Shock: Pirates Hit Howard Stern Showhttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-free2feb02,1,370407.story?...Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-01-ha-ha-holy-shit/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-01-ha-ha-holy-shit/That's an expensive lawsuithttp://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70126-0.html?tw=rss.index. I really do think that phone privacy at least the process of get...Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-01-i-heart-netflix/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-01-i-heart-netflix/I think I'm still within my 2-week free trial period for Netflix, which I just signed up for when I got back to campus. So far, it's phenominal. I just got m...Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-01-yahoo-vs-google/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-02-01-yahoo-vs-google/I've seen a lot of Yahoo! and Google in blogs over the past few days, and Fred's been talking about his switch to Yahoo! since the first of January. Here's m...Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-31-437/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-31-437/AOL is partering with a Reality TV "big name" to make a program called Gold Rush linkhttp://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-goldrush31jan31,0,2656016.story?...Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-31-powers-out/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-31-powers-out/!http://static.flickr.com/31/93760810356e546415m.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/93760810/ "photo sharing" The power went out again at Oxy last nig...Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-30-i-dont-understand-batteries/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-30-i-dont-understand-batteries/Like so many rechargable batteries that I've bought over the years, the one in my laptop is slowly dying. My phone battery is already almost pointless, and I...Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-30-laugh-it-up-fuzzball/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-30-laugh-it-up-fuzzball/I realize again the irony of linking to someone who gets more comments than I have readers, but here is Scott Adams' take on the Hamas victoryhttp://dilbertb...Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-30-nobody-understand-global-warming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-30-nobody-understand-global-warming/Except, apparently, Dr. Hansen. The fun thing about quibbling over global warming is that the argument is essentially "trends" vs "data points." People who c...Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-29-how-to-rounded-edges-in-photoshop/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-29-how-to-rounded-edges-in-photoshop/I finally, FINALLY figured out how to round the edges of an image using Photoshop well, ok, imageready. Ironically, I figured this out just as I stopped usin...Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-27-being-funny-twice/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-27-being-funny-twice/Of all the possible professions in the world, the ones that impress me most are, in this order: 2. Daily Comic Artist 4. Author 6. Phlebologist Phlebologists...Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-26-okay-i-give-in/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-26-okay-i-give-in/I'm horribly addicted to singing up for free things online. I suspect this is why I have more e-mail accounts than I can reasonably remember to check. This i...Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-26-omg-pollz-plz/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-26-omg-pollz-plz/I finally figured out how to put polls into my blog and, I'm assuming, also livejournal without paying for an account. Use pollhost.com: Polls are cool! Hell...Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-25-two-links/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-25-two-links/If you enjoy puzzle games, or anything like the The Mystery of Time and Space that I wrote abouthttp://jasonp107.livejournal.com/2004/03/27/ in Livejournal a...Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-24-alpacas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-24-alpacas/What could I possibly have to say about Alpacas? Not much, actually. I don't really know anything about them myself. But my Aunt and Uncle, who own an alpaca...Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-24-steve-jobs-meep/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-24-steve-jobs-meep/Disney has just agreed to buy Pixarhttp://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1148487&tw=wnwirestory at $7.4 billion. This makes S...Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-24-the-real-question/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-24-the-real-question/Oxy sends out a dialy e-mail newsletter called the "oxy digest"with campus happenings, news, and other student-submitted bulletins that relate to campus happ...Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-23-hypochondria/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-23-hypochondria/I think the great irony of being a hypochondraic is that you must, on some level, be afraid that you are one.Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-23-music-note/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-23-music-note/Go herehttp://www.myspace.com/taxidoll and play the "Waiting Josh Harris..." remix in the playlist. This song is insanely addicting.Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-23-webcomics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-23-webcomics/One of my favorite bloggers well, livejournalers, I guess has always been theferretthttp://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/, and just today he announced...Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-22-i-have-friends/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-22-i-have-friends/When I first got back to Oxy last night around 11:30 pm, after driving for almost fifteen hours, I was interrupted during my unpacking by at least three phon...Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-20-plans-pah/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-20-plans-pah/I just finished getting everything more or less ready to leave tomorrow today, I guess around noon. The first leg of my trip down to California stops in Oreg...Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-18-me-and-the-lake/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-18-me-and-the-lake/!http://static.flickr.com/30/88011675dad557a8bem.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/88011675/ "photo sharing"Yesterday was the first day in a while th...Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-18-oh-snap/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-18-oh-snap/I think part of the reason I enjoy reading blogs so much is because they tend to follow this general formula: I read this post by someone. They are an idiot,...Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-17-a-day-behind-the-times/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-17-a-day-behind-the-times/Actually, two days. And I'm behind the New York Times in this case: Hey, baby Bells: Information Still Wants to be FreeÂÂhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/b...Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-17-how-to-make-a-proper-cup-of-tea/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-17-how-to-make-a-proper-cup-of-tea/I'm fairly American. Until a few months ago, when someone asked "do you want tea?" my response would have been "what kind?" This is not the right response. T...Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-16-in-continuing-fine-tradition/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-16-in-continuing-fine-tradition/I've now started the second of two guilds I've ever had World of Warcraft characters in, which makes me either cool or hopelessly afraid of commitment i.e. u...Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-16-what-fun/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-16-what-fun/I'm more or less certain that thishttp://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2006/01/clintoninredm.html could never happen. But wouldn't it be fun?Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-16-where-do-you-get-your-news/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-16-where-do-you-get-your-news/My the younger generation has been accused no link, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere of slowly killing the print media. And the radio. We never listen t...Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-15-instant-snob-just-add-countries/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-15-instant-snob-just-add-countries/It's amazing how quickly you can become a snob by visiting other countries. I never really thought of myself as someone with a particularly refined taste, or...Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-14-travel/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-14-travel/Getting e-mails from STA travel advertising $300 round-trip airfares on BA to London is not helping me stay in the States.Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-13-the-we-media-deal/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-13-the-we-media-deal/Matt Blumberg coins the term in his posthttp://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2006/01/newmediadeal.html over at the OnlyOnce blog. He is also describing the way...Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-12-blogoplaigarism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-12-blogoplaigarism/There's a trick to writing that never works in academics. The trick? Do no research. If you don't do any research, then there's no possible way for you to pl...Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-11-dinner-delight/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-11-dinner-delight/When I was in England, I had to cook for myself. In the end, my friends and I never really cooked or ate alone---almost every night of the week I was either ...Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-11-timestamp-problems/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-11-timestamp-problems/Does anyone else find it unbelievably annoying that WP 2.0 no longer automatically updates the timestamp? I like to save drafts and finish my posts later. Bu...Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-10-intent-to-annoy-is-like-leroy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-10-intent-to-annoy-is-like-leroy/Apparently, we have http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-10283-6022491.htmlnew lawshttp://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to...Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-10-supremely-annoying/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-10-supremely-annoying/Update Again: Also also, I've apparently destroyed any chance of this site working in Internet Explorer. I'm too tired to bother with that right now, so ever...Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-10-titles-are-like-vitals/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-10-titles-are-like-vitals/I need serious work on my titles. For some reason, I have a lot of difficulty thinking of clever, punny one-liners to put in big bold type above my entries. ...Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-09-how-to-use-the-new-web/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-09-how-to-use-the-new-web/The web is a new place. With all sorts of new services and ideas popping up all over the place, it's no longer just a question of wandering through a few sit...Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-09-itunes-music-store-sucks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-09-itunes-music-store-sucks/Or, more specifically, the DRM procedures that Apple has in place. Almost every time I buy a song on the iTunes store, which happens a lot because people giv...Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-08-correspondence/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-08-correspondence/I'm probably the worst kind of pen-pal. I love to get letters and e-mails, but I'm laughably bad at responding to most of them. I think my problem is twofold...Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-08-working-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-08-working-again/Finally, del.icio.us has fixed the issues with combining tags and getting rss feeds going etc. It's been weeks since I've had my funny video feed working. Ho...Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-07-employment/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-07-employment/Against all kinds of odds, I've actually managed to get myself back into the coolest job I've ever had. Starting essentially yesterday, I'm once again workin...Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-07-ive-always-liked-yahoo/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-07-ive-always-liked-yahoo/I remember the first time I saw the internet. It was sometime in 1996, when I'd heard about "the internet," but I didn't really know what it was. I had this ...Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-05-dont-get-stuck/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-05-dont-get-stuck/So many blogs can be summed up in small characterizations. Pick any really popular blogger, and there are certain aspects of the way the write, what they wri...Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-04-delicious-channels/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-04-delicious-channels/Some people have claimed that channels are deadhttp://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/11/30/exploding-tv-death-on-the-a-la-carte-menu/. They wait paitentl...Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-04-wow-patch-woes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-04-wow-patch-woes/Originally posted at PlayEverythinghttp://www.playeverything.net/. As I know many millions, in fact people play World of Warcraft, I'm sure that we can all s...Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-03-odds-and-ends/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-03-odds-and-ends/I just tried installing Firefox 1.5 on my laptop. I've been incredibly lazy because the older version I was using was working just fine, but eventually the t...Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-03-sony-is-idiotic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-03-sony-is-idiotic/I'm constantly amazed at how consumer electronics and music/video distributors are responding to innovation and new technology, respectively. Sony is just th...Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-02-luke-i-am-your-spoiler/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-02-luke-i-am-your-spoiler/I worry about odd things. I worry, for example, about how my kids will experience Star Wars. When I was little enough to not know what it was, things were mu...Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-01-holy-crap-it-lives/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-01-holy-crap-it-lives/I had about 20 minutes of complete and utter downtime there, which was apparently caused by my idiotic decision to update the theme while it was still in use...Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-01-ipod-of-meat/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-01-ipod-of-meat/ABC NEWS: iPod replaced with Meathttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1450350. Yep, I was curious, too. Apparently some kid opened a sealed iPod package...Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-01-wordpress-20/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2006-01-01-wordpress-20/Wordpress 2.0 is out now, and since the feature listhttp://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/ looks really cool, and because I'm horribly addicted to scr...Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-31-good-news-for-ie-users/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-31-good-news-for-ie-users/Although I still recommend using Firefox as your browser, I finally got some much needed help from my friend at nmyworldhttp://www.nmyworld.com/wordpress/ an...Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-31-new-years-eve/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-31-new-years-eve/This is one of the few holidays that is celebrated more or less "the night before." For some people Christmas Eve is more important than Christmas, but as fa...Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-30-batelles-prediction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-30-batelles-prediction/I'm with Jeff Jarvishttp://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/12/28/my-2006-predictions-and-2005-wrapups/ on year-end lists: they annoy me. But many smart pe...Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-30-yipes-an-essay/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-30-yipes-an-essay/I didn't mean to write that much, but it basically sums up my opinion of Peter Jackson: In the commentshttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=375comment-304.Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-29-my-early-senility/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-29-my-early-senility/Despite being young, progressive, and lucid in most ways most of the time, I feel like I'm prematurely senile when it comes to organization in life. No one c...Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-29-wow-guild-names/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-29-wow-guild-names/The other day I spent a good several hours playing World of Warcraft. Probably the first time I've spent over four hours in the game in months, and it remind...Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-28-background-noise/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-28-background-noise/LiveJournal has the advantage of the friends system. As someone who's midly obsessed with web stats, finding out how many people read my journal is an endles...Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-27-me-and-dogs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-27-me-and-dogs/I clearly have the wrong reaction to dogs. I was walking through the mall yesterday which was actually a lot more difficult than it should have been, since e...Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-27-relaxin/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-27-relaxin/Basically, I've spent a lot of my time hanging out with friends recently. Post-christmas I've got new books to read and a few new games to play. I also need ...Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-25-merry-christmas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-25-merry-christmas/It's not snowing, but that's not really required. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas. It's also the first day of Hanukkah, so happy Hanukkah, too.Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-24-early-teleportation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-24-early-teleportation/I got my camera back yesterday, which made me really excited and forced me to go take pictures of various rainy scenery around my house. !http://static.flick...Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-24-the-best-poll-ever/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-24-the-best-poll-ever/I've been reading Theferretthttp://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/ for a long time, and it's always an interesting blog. Yesterday, however, he posted ...Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-king-of-silicon-alley/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-king-of-silicon-alley/Unfortunately it isn't online yet, so I can't link to it, but the January issue of Wired has a little two-page article tucked in halfway through about Jason ...Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-oh-thats-right-its-radio/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-oh-thats-right-its-radio/I haven't really listened to the radio in years. For the most part, while I'm home, I tend to listen to music that my friends bring around and then choose th...Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-toys/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-toys/It's a frustrating fact that the older I get, the more my holiday "gift list" turns into a smaller list of more expensive toys. When I was six or seven, I re...Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-wank-for-peace/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-23-wank-for-peace/Hey everyone, hate war? Have a wankhttp://www.masturbateforpeace.com/wanking.html. I guess it started yesterday, but...oh well.Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-22-mornings-are-in-your-mind/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-22-mornings-are-in-your-mind/Some people say that they are morning people. I refuse to believe them. "Morning people," as the concept is usually considered, does not exist. Since the beg...Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-21-all-hail-the-mutant-monster/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-21-all-hail-the-mutant-monster/This morning I tried to make a blog post from one of those newfangled BlackBerry 7105'shttp://www.t-mobile.com/products/overview.asp?phoneid=612137&class=pda...Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-20-my-camera-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-20-my-camera-2/From Canon factory service: We have received your equipment for evaluation and repair. Based on our initial examination, we will start the necessary repairs ...Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-19-blog-design/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-19-blog-design/How do I know that my blog design is good? Because it makes me want to write. For some reason the way this site is laid out make me scroll idly up and down t...Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-19-flicker-tomorrow/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-19-flicker-tomorrow/The gaming e-zine I manage and edit I guess I'm the editor-in-cheif? is delivering its second issue tomorrow. Flicker is turning into some good stuff, I'm pr...Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-18-the-top-40-guy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-18-the-top-40-guy/My taste in music is awful. Personally, i'll listen to absolutely anything, and find value in it. My opinion is that more or less anything that someone bothe...Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-17-freedom-means-non-interference/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-17-freedom-means-non-interference/When I started blogging, I didn't really give much thought to what kind of things I would write about. I figured that something would always be happening or ...Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-16-home/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-16-home/!http://static.flickr.com/38/742743622ed2124ba9.jpg?v=0http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/74274362/ It's good to be home. Also, the weather has been abso...Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-15-itunes-radio/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-15-itunes-radio/I have only just discovered the fact that iTunes carries radio streams over the internet. I'm sure that this little feature has been part of iTunes for some ...Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-15-the-gifting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-15-the-gifting/When I arrived home Monday afternoon, I obediently unpacked all of my stuff, stashing the clothes in the laundry hamper, the electronics back where they belo...Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-14-the-new-army-manual/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-14-the-new-army-manual/I don't know an incredible amount about the negotiations going on between Senator McCain, the House, and the Bush Administration except that McCain would lik...Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-13-ipod-frustration/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-13-ipod-frustration/After updating the software on my iPod yet again in order to get it to talk to the new version of iTunes which crashes more than past versions, doesn't it?, ...Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-13-our-first-mobiles/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-13-our-first-mobiles/!http://www.t-mobile.com/images/products/611994/250x270.jpghttp://www.t-mobile.com/products/overview.asp?phoneid=611994&class=phoneI have always been a gadge...Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-12-hesa-machine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-12-hesa-machine/It's 8:50pm Seattle time and I haven't collapsed of exhaustion yet! Since I didn't go to sleep last night English time that means I've been up for...44 hours...Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-12-travelwriter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-12-travelwriter/There must be something about airports and airplanes that is somehow conducive to writing. Every time I travel, especially while I’m sitting in the ai...Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-11-bits-of-britain/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-11-bits-of-britain/Tomorrow I leave Sussex bright and early, and I probably won't be coming back any time soon. I've had a lot of fun here, and learned a few things along the w...Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-10-pink-and-blue/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-10-pink-and-blue/Today was absolutely gorgeous. In every direction, the horizon was ever so slightly smudged with a light pink that faded into blue, outlining the tendril-lik...Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-09-my-camera/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-09-my-camera/Well, bye bye camera. Tomorrow I'm going to go to the store and see what exhorbatent fee it will cost to fix it, if it can even be done in a day or two. If n...Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-08-the-forward-audio-problem/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-08-the-forward-audio-problem/There's an article at Wired about how our audio quality suckshttp://www.wired.com/news/technology/audiophiles/0,2934,68891,00.html?tw=rss.TOP in this age of ...Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-08-what-is-film-noir/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-08-what-is-film-noir/Today I'm turning in the 3,000 word paper I wrote for my Film Noir class. It was one of those papers where the prompt was: "think of your own prompt." So the...Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-07-adventures-in-writing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-07-adventures-in-writing/I've been working slowly on a short story for the past couple of months. I'm not quite halfway done with it, and yes, it is short. But at the same time, I fe...Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-07-imoscarcom/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-07-imoscarcom/For all you fans of Arrested Development and who isn't?, you'll recall that at the end of Season 2, Oscar is taken to prison in the place of George Sr. On th...Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-07-squidoo-is/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-07-squidoo-is/The new service called Squidoohttp://www.squidoo.com went live today, and after having a look around, my first question is: "OK, what is this? Why is it cool...Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-06-civil-what/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-06-civil-what/!http://www.recherches-sur-le-terrorisme.com/Images/masri-nbc.jpgGerman man accidentally arrested, flown to Afghanistan, and tortured by the US...http://www....Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-06-correcting-claire/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-06-correcting-claire/One of the most challenging things I’ve done here in Brighton is editing my friend Claire’s work, who speaks relatively little English. As a re...Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-06-sleeping-funny/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-06-sleeping-funny/When I woke up this morning it took me a few moments to figure out what felt so odd. I couldn't feel my left arm. Somehow I must have slept on my side so tha...Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-05-frisbee-2/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-05-frisbee-2/Gather round, boys and girls! As promised, I've embedded the video this time, so that all you have to do is watch it! The tournament was a fun two days. The ...Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-05-royally-stiky-mail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-05-royally-stiky-mail/I’ve come to the conclusion that the British Royal Mail service is horribly frustrating. Today I mailed a package for the second time, and, for the se...Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-05-this-is-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-05-this-is-cool/The Dilbert Humor Formulahttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/thedilbertblog/2005/12/humorformula.html will now become my funny-bible. Actually, I just happen to t...Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-04-made-it-back/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-04-made-it-back/I have a rule: never post just to fill space. I always come up with something interesting to comment on right afterwards, and then I feel like an ass not to ...Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-02-a-webcomic/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-02-a-webcomic/I'm not very big on webcomics. This is strange considering that I've tried to start one at least three times, although I usually get stuck at the point I rea...Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-02-frisbee/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-02-frisbee/Tomorrow morning at 7am I'm going to roll out of bed and into a van. Then I'll play ultimate all day, have an evening in Southampton, and come back Sunday af...Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-01-cell-phones-of-destruction/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-01-cell-phones-of-destruction/About two weeks ago I noticed that on my left leg there's a patch of chernobyl-like destruction where my relatively hairy leg has less hair than it should. T...Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-01-posting-times/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-01-posting-times/The entire time that I've been over here in England, the majority of my blog posts have been "before noon," or at least certainly "before 4pm." This is becau...Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-01-whoa-sweet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-12-01-whoa-sweet/I mentioned a few days ago how NASA spent time and money developing a "space pen" while the Russians simply used pencils. Apparently, there's actually a good...Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-30-ads-are-worth-more-than-clicks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-30-ads-are-worth-more-than-clicks/A week or so ago Jason Calacanis wrote a posthttp://www.calacanis.com/2005/11/19/will-direct-sales-of-attention-data-disintermediate-publishers-a/ about atte...Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-30-oh-the-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-30-oh-the-internet/It occurred to me that as a result of the internet, I have no idea how to pronounce: "Jason Calacanis." Oh I have a perfectly good idea of who he is and what...Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-30-two-minute-mysteries/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-30-two-minute-mysteries/I remember that as a child I used to love reading through those little books of two-page mysteries, where some hard-boiled detective would walk into a crime ...Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-29-hijacking-the-broswer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-29-hijacking-the-broswer/AOL has made a few "whoops" moves in the past week or so, ranging from shoving AIM bots into the top of everyone's buddy lists to adding ad banners to unsusp...Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-29-if-this-happens/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-29-if-this-happens/I'm getting onehttp://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000177070149/. Whatever else you say about Apple, they've done modern entertainment about x-billion times be...Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-29-space-blankets/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-29-space-blankets/!http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:h9S218-SuU4J:www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/as11-40-5875HR.jpghttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http...Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-28-in-search-of-a-new-image/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-28-in-search-of-a-new-image/EDIT: I'm on a different computer right now, and I can't for the life of me get it to show the new style sheet. I know I replaced the files, so what is this ...Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-28-the-bubble-project/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-28-the-bubble-project/This is a really cool thing that I spotted in some sort of newspaper a while back. I forget exactly when, but I've been trying to remind myself about it for ...Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-28-the-mousetrap/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-28-the-mousetrap/I just got back from spending the weekend in London, where for the first time in my life I saw Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap. It was really fun to watch...Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-25-reading-chuck/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-25-reading-chuck/I've been meandering slowly through the essays in Non-Fictionhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385504489/103-3619453-4827047?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glan...Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-25-thanksgiving-happened/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-25-thanksgiving-happened/I'm not usually one for posting about the little events in life. I figure that, hey, it's Thanksgiving, and most people either already know that or don't car...Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-24-hey-look/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-24-hey-look/Pubs will be open laterhttp://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-leisure-britain-licensing.html than 11pm this weekend.Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-23-are-bloggers-journalists/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-23-are-bloggers-journalists/I myself am not. There's some legal mumbo-jumbo going on about Judith Miller and the right for journalists to keep sources secret, and that's all very import...Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-23-sidebar-woes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-23-sidebar-woes/My FlickR badge doesn't seem to be working on the sidebar anymore. I'm kind of hoping it fixes itself sometime soon, but if it doesn't I guess I'll have to g...Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-23-why-i-hate-reality-tv/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-23-why-i-hate-reality-tv/Ever since people figured out what Reality TV was years ago, I’ve disliked it. I’m sure that my opinion isn’t the most valid since I bar...Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-delicious/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-delicious/I first learned about del.icio.us from Byronhttp://texturadesign.com/, and it took me probably a week and a half to fully understand how it worked. Back then...Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-my-teeth/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-my-teeth/While I was in the shower this morning I noticed how my teeth feel like they're moving around a bit - anyone who has ever had braces or headgear or whatnot k...Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-the-360-from-a-wired-perspective/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-the-360-from-a-wired-perspective/Chris Anderson, the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, keeps a blog called the Long Tail in reference to some fancy schmanzy marketing wiz-hop and hoopla tha...Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-too-many-accessories/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-22-too-many-accessories/Fred Wilsonhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/ has often talked about how he considers his blog to be, in a lot of ways, a collection of various independent services. ...Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-21-pre-flight-mental-check/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-21-pre-flight-mental-check/On the flight from Gatwick to Edinborough Saturday afternoon, the flight attendant reminded us to switch off our mobile cell phones since they "interfere wit...Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-20-the-year-of-the-mottled-boar/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-20-the-year-of-the-mottled-boar/I can imagine a time several centuries ago, when people lived in probably the same buildings I'm staying in now, but did not have the added luxury of a heati...Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-19-arrival-public-transportation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-19-arrival-public-transportation/When I got here I checked my e-mail, to find that my sister had described her trip to the new Harry Potter movie like this: we had to take the bus, so we lef...Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-they-done-good/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-they-done-good/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is my favorite of the four movies. I think that, aside from the increasingly mismatched ages of the lead characters to th...Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-traveling-season/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-traveling-season/As I may have mentioned a few weeks ago, it recently occurred to me that while I've been here in Brighton for several months, I really haven't left it as oft...Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-viral-issues/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-viral-issues/Because I'm a reasonably nice guy, when people ask me to edit their papers I tend to say "sure." Unforutnately, writing papers over here for most people mean...Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-youtube/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-18-youtube/The other day, when I posted the video from my trip to Barcelona, I didn't have time to really snoop around the internet and look up the kind of video servic...Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-17-harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-17-harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire/I will be seeing the movie tonight at midnight, UK time. That makes it a full EIGHT HOURS before anyone on the west coast gets to. Oh, snap.Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-17-the-wrong-response/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-17-the-wrong-response/I was watching Boys N the Hoodhttp://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/id/163125 for my film class yesterday when I realized that I often get completely incorr...Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-16-belated-video/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-16-belated-video/In the middle of Barcelona, we had the good fortune to encounter and I had the luck of recording a little bit of the ancient and creepy tradition of dancing ...Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-16-id-and-darwinist-fun/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-16-id-and-darwinist-fun/Scott Adams wrote a posthttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/thedilbertblog/2005/11/intelligentdes.html several days ago about how he was doing research on Intelli...Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-16-online-check-in-is-silly/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-16-online-check-in-is-silly/Someone once explained to me that the reason airlines have online check-in is that other airlines have it. Actually, I think it was slightly more complicated...Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-arrested-production/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-arrested-production/I heard the sad news last night: Arrested Development, one of the best shows on Television, has been canceledhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051111/ennm/showsdc...Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-bye-bye-imdb/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-bye-bye-imdb/Unfortunately, as the Internet Movie Database becomes more and more mature in the online world, their data is becoming harder and harder to find. I think the...Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-internet-explorer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-internet-explorer/By the way, I apologize to everyone with IE about the width of this thing...I've been mucking about with the stylesheet trying to fix that for a while, but I...Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-seo-vs-blogs/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-15-seo-vs-blogs/I think this "debate" on SEO vs. Blogshttp://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/2005/11/seovsblogging.htm is really kind of silly. First of all, any decent "Search E...Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-14-barcelona-pictures/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-14-barcelona-pictures/This trip I was a bit more consistent with my camera than I was in Dublin, so I've got a lot more pictures to choose from. The whole experience was pretty la...Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-14-if-you-arent-reading/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-14-if-you-arent-reading/the Dilbert bloghttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/thedilbertblog/, you should be: I used to say that my goal was to live to 140. I have confidence that medical ...Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-14-sonys-problem/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-14-sonys-problem/If anything is going to spur the push towards non-CD music purchases, it's going to be Sony issuing malware cdshttp://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,6955...Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-13-home-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-13-home-again/As the king of minor updates, I made it back to Brighton today. Traveling went smoothly and all that, but I'm dead beat. I got a lot of cool pictures from th...Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-13-important-decisions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-13-important-decisions/After getting back from Barcelona, I poked around the Fossil site for far too long, and narrowed my choices down to two wallets. Now...which one should I get...Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-11-a-bit-of-drizzle/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-11-a-bit-of-drizzle/BARCELONA - A rainy, friday afternoon saw my six traveling companions and I wading our way through the busy streets and sidewalks on multicolored bikes. In a...Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-11-sexy-talk/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-11-sexy-talk/Jeff Jarvis noticed the recent government talks on pornhttp://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/11/11/a-nation-of-hairy-palms/, and he's right: it's ridicul...Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-10-barcelona/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-10-barcelona/After discovering that I've lost my sim card and therefore every number from home, along with the ability to use my cell phone outside of England, I'm off to...Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-09-blog-writing-bad-academia/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-09-blog-writing-bad-academia/Of course, this isn’t strictly true. Any blog really just reflects the writing style of whoever it is typing away on the internet, but for me, keeping...Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-09-the-names-of-pratchett/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-09-the-names-of-pratchett/One of the things I’m absolutely horrible at is coming up with names. This blog is creatively called “Jason-Preston.com,” which took some ...Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-always-afraid-of-a-terminal-disease/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-always-afraid-of-a-terminal-disease/I’ve spent most of my life somewhat afraid that I’m going to contract some form of disease or another. I can’t think of any particular r...Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-consoles-jumped-the-shark-already/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-consoles-jumped-the-shark-already/I can't help but think that gaming consoles have jumped the shark. They definitely have in my mind...I know a lot of people like to play xbox and ps2 and wil...Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-flicker-e-zine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-flicker-e-zine/Just a reminder that the first issue of Flickerhttp://www.flickergaming.net will be released later this month. It's shaping up to be a really cool little pac...Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-icerocket/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-icerocket/A while ago I posted on how IceRockethttp://www.icerocket.com was wandering into the blogsearch world, and how I was going to keep an eye on them to see how ...Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-movable-turk/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-08-movable-turk/As a follow-up side note to the new Amazon service, has anyone noticed how, in a lot of ways, it's an e-bay style version of Google Answershttp://answers.goo...Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-07-rss/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-07-rss/One of the hardest things to wrap my habits around is one of the easiest things to wrap my head around: RSS. Really Simple Syndication, which I'm going to us...Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-07-space-piss/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-07-space-piss/The general knowledge, as I understand it, is that the amount of water on Earth has remained exactly the same throughout the eons of its existence. Despite t...Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-mturk/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-mturk/Amazon.com just launched a beta service called Mechanical Turkhttp://www.mturk.com. At first glance, it seems like a really cool idea; it harnesses the inter...Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-photoshop-dumb-point-oh/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-photoshop-dumb-point-oh/I'm always amazed at the things I can't do in Photoshop. It's a lot more likely that they can be done, and I just don't know my way around the tools well eno...Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-staying-the-course/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-staying-the-course/I few days ago, my friend Jacob resposted an article on Iraqhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/jacobrb02/220107.html?cutid1, which I read and meant to post abo...Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-where-i-was-yesterday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-06-where-i-was-yesterday/!http://static.flickr.com/24/60378374a76d30253cm.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/60378374/I went to the Lewes Bonfire, which is a lot like Fourth o...Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-04-cookbook/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-04-cookbook/I'm slowly discovering that the worlds best cookbook is, in fact, the internet. Go technology for telling me how to make beer-battered fries!Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-04-halloween/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-04-halloween/It's a bit late, but I didn't have my camera for Halloween. I just grabbed this shot from my friend Meg, with whom I was a PIRATE, because when you pack to g...Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-04-the-classics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-04-the-classics/People seem to have a natural tendency to glorify the past. They never make things "like they used to." Certain art has merit because it is "classic." Childh...Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-03-rfid/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-03-rfid/I didn't know that the government was planning to put RFID chips into passports starting in 2006http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69453,00.html?tw=rss...Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-03-what-no-aliens/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-03-what-no-aliens/It's taken me up until episode ten to notice that there aren't any aliens in Firefly. I kinda like that, in a werid, not-very-sci-fi sort of way. It makes th...Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-02-bad-guys/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-02-bad-guys/It seems like every bad guy in every movie ever thinks that "casual conversation" goes something like this: Badguyerson: Did you know, Mr. Goodguyerson, that...Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-01-when-is-it-mine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-11-01-when-is-it-mine/With the barrage of new and exciting Web 2.0 services, the question "who owns my content" is becoming more and more relevant. Especially with RSS. As with an...Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-i-cant-go-portable/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-i-cant-go-portable/Ever since the original game bay, I've been called by the glamour of having a little carry-it-with you gaming box. It seems like the ultimate slice of heaven...Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-ok-the-crush-thing-is-cool/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-ok-the-crush-thing-is-cool/Disney's touting their new interactivityhttp://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69297,00.html?tw=wntophead1, by unleashing a talking, interactive, and co...Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-truth-is-hidden-on-the-daily-show/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-truth-is-hidden-on-the-daily-show/It's amazing how astute Jon Stewart really is. I was watching this excellent cliphttp://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/ds102605lincoln.mov where he ment...Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-virtual-chuckle-room/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-31-virtual-chuckle-room/A lot of the things that I like to post are "asides." They're ususally the sorts of things that, were I in a room full of my friends, would elicit a short ch...Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-30-buying-butter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-30-buying-butter/Buying butter over here isn't as simple as back home. There's six different types of vegetable oil, 86% vegetable oil, butter from weird oil, sunflower butte...Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-30-sources/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-30-sources/I really dislike the idea of forcing students to find extra sources for certain papers. Some papers I understand. There are research papers, papers on events...Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-29-blood-elves/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-29-blood-elves/Blizzard has announced the official expansion to WoW that everyone knew was going to happen anyway, but they also gave Gamespot a look at the new Blood Elves...Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-29-full-of-ourselves/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-29-full-of-ourselves/There's a lot of doomsaying on blogs. For the past few days I've been tossing a little newsblog aggregation idea around in my head---something not terribly u...Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-29-scott-adams-blog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-29-scott-adams-blog/The guy who makes Dilbert makes a bloghttp://dilbertblog.typepad.com/. Now I want Douglas Adams to come back from the grave and start blogging. I can't wait ...Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-a-discussion-of-natural-rights/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-a-discussion-of-natural-rights/Just as I've learned to expect from all of my IR and politics related seminars, the class I have wednesday afternoon consists largely of the TA asking someth...Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-mp3-phones/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-mp3-phones/The US Cell Phone industry is more than a little ridiculous. I talk to people here in England about the cell services we have in America, and they can't beli...Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-some-civil-liberties/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-some-civil-liberties/In the age of the PATRIOT act, we seem to be caught in a limbo of civil liberties, granted or rescinded on an individual basis by various judges. Personally,...Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-soooo-much-candy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-28-soooo-much-candy/!http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/297/reviews/53188320051025embed001.jpgI'm crying inside that It'll be a month and a half before I'm anywhere ne...Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-27-frustrating-technology-rant/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-27-frustrating-technology-rant/Rarely am I frustrated with computers. I've spent most of my life living with their quirks and inconsitensies, and I understand that frankly, very few people...Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-27-goings-and-places/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-27-goings-and-places/I finally booked the two trips I've been planning to take since the start of the term. I got them reasonably cheap, and I'm happy with the itineraries. On No...Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-26-mediadirect/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-26-mediadirect/It's a relatively small feature, but the announcement over at Engadget about Dell's new PCshttp://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000477065139/ was the first I'd ...Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-26-show-me-the-base/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-26-show-me-the-base/Google Base. There's a lot of speculation flying about the blogosphere this morning about the Google Base page that popped up for a minute or two base.google...Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-26-the-check-this-out-meme/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-26-the-check-this-out-meme/Last night I was thinking about how the blogosphere is really made up of a bunch of little worlds that people have, and how people don't often jump between t...Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-crappy-wireless-networks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-crappy-wireless-networks/It's absolutely beyond me why the physical location of my laptop within the wireless network coverage should matter as to whether or not it can connect. I do...Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-i-can-write-letters-too/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-i-can-write-letters-too/I'm a bit upset with the program here. I wrote a letter explaining why: To Whom It May Concern: I have for some time had a lot of interest in England; in the...Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-rosa-parks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-rosa-parks/Rosa Parks died todayhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130237596-+CWa6pr96JrZDS3WYr9Tmg, at the age of 92.Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-the-leak/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-25-the-leak/As helpful as this timeline of the Leak Investigationhttp://www.nytimes.com/ref/politics/2005LEAKTIMELINEGRAPHIC.html is, I find it amusing that Judith Mille...Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-24-free-media/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-24-free-media/Just yesterday, Fred posted on how he wants media to be freehttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2005/10/wallsofmassd.html: We know that online content should be free an...Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-24-mr-bernanke/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-24-mr-bernanke/Bush has Nominated Mr. Bernanke to Succeed Greenspanhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/24cnd-fed.html?ex=1287806400&en=04998f97f186cb3e&ei=5088&partn...Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-224/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-224/I find it ironic that I started today thinking I had nothing to post about, and this is my sixth and most pointless of the day. It's these damn Asides!!Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-google-print-and-ie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-google-print-and-ie/Google Print: has it occurred to anyone that Amazon provides a service for searching the text in books, and nobody is complaining? The difference, as far as ...Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-im-such-a-nerd/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-im-such-a-nerd/it's not even funny. I'm just finding out about things like BlizzConhttp://www.blizzcon.com/, and I'm sad I can't go. Also, this is pure evil from the World ...Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-ive-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-universities/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-ive-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-universities/Probably because they're usually a hotbet of litigation I agree with. They're fighting the new requirementshttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23col...Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-k-pax/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-k-pax/I just picked up K-Paxhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&tag=flickergaming-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0312977026/qid=11...Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-the-final-frontier/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-the-final-frontier/If you can't get Americans to like space and science anymore, well, how are you going to get them to invest in it? I guess we have to offer Space Rocket Race...Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-wohoo/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-23-wohoo/!http://static.flickr.com/23/25822676789bf55448t.jpg My bloghttp://www.jason-preston.com is worth $3,387.24. How much is your blog worth?http://www.business-...Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-gmail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-gmail/For such a new service...and one that started out so "closed"...gmail is remarkably pervasive. I've just started an e-zine, and so far every single subscribe...Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-im-addicted-to-e-mail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-im-addicted-to-e-mail/I keep checking it every five minutes to see if anything new and cool has shown up in my inbox. I should definitely be doing something more productive, like ...Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-my-horrible-memory/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-my-horrible-memory/In all honesty, I have a horrible memory. I do well enough with appointments, schedules, and sometime even names...but ideas? things i need to do? groceries?...Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-pausei-shouldve-known/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-22-pausei-shouldve-known/I just spent several hours working on the feature article for the upcoming Flickerhttp://www.flickergaming.net e-zine in November. I've been working in the c...Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-21-its-gotta-work-somehow/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-21-its-gotta-work-somehow/"Once you reach complete trust, it's over," My friends Claire, Sabina, and Martin explained to me over a few pints of Guiness in the faint light of a pub in ...Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-21-slow-death-of-physical-media/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-21-slow-death-of-physical-media/Video on iTunes heralds the demise of physical media. Thanks to rampant file sharing and the solid development of digital music files, CDs purchased are now ...Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-20-007/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-20-007/Daniel Craig named as first blond Bondhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051014/ennm/leisurebonddc - I think he's a pretty decent actor from the two movies I've se...Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-20-since-1994/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-20-since-1994/I had no idea that CALEAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALEA has been around since 1994. Basically, it's legislation that requires phone companies to allow law...Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-fireflying/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-fireflying/That's the first two episodes of Firefly on my hard drive, thank you very much. Aside: I want asides to work. Unfortunately, my theme doesn't seem to like th...Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-stretching-too-thin/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-stretching-too-thin/For all that I am a fan of consolidating things in my life not too much in my pockets, use my phone as an alarm clock... I'm horribly, horribly bad at consol...Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-the-brand-new-market/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-the-brand-new-market/is in ipods. With one or two quick moves from Apple over the past few months, they've created a gigantic opportunity to anyone with a little talent for engin...Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-updating/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-19-updating/Sorry about the site erratics, I'm giving my best shot at moving over to K2http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/k2/.Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-18-escalators-and-i-lied/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-18-escalators-and-i-lied/So I actually haven't watched the first episode of Firefly yet. Just after I made my last post, Claire and Fred wandered into the computer lab and dragged me...Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-18-firefly/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-18-firefly/Against all odds, I managed to trick the wireless network here into letting me download with BitComet, because whoever coded that thing also integrated a bun...Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-18-human-nature/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-18-human-nature/There are too many fundamental truths of human nature. I'm taking a class this term called "Modern Political Thought," which is, you guessed it, a bunch of "...Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-flicker-reloaded/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-flicker-reloaded/I've grumbled every now and then about my gaming site Flicker Gaming, and how it's a big organic project that keeps changing as certain things works or don't...Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-stories-of-a-foreign-country/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-stories-of-a-foreign-country/Being in a foreign country for a semester has put me in the awkward position of needing to have a story to tell. Other friends of mine who've gone to Italy o...Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-time-is-timeless-parallels/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-time-is-timeless-parallels/I just watched a movie that took place in a desert that was the only location for the most valuable resource known to man. The most powerful leader had arran...Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-understanding-storyotypes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-17-understanding-storyotypes/I tend to read authors in batches. When I picked up The DaVinci Codehttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&tag=flickergaming-20&cr...Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-16-100000-doubloons/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-16-100000-doubloons/And in one swift stroke, Terry Pratchett destroys every pirate story ever: “Anyone who couldn’t simply remember where he’d stashed a grea...Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-16-my-whole-life-has-been-catered/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-16-my-whole-life-has-been-catered/I have never had to cook for myself until this September. My entire life, most of my food has either been served by my parents or my school---and having to f...Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-16-passive-media/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-16-passive-media/I'm on a passive media craze. I've spent the past few days absolutely absorbing any movies and TV shows I can get my hands on, which is probably why I haven'...Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-15-who-would-succeed/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-15-who-would-succeed/There are two things that, if they arrived in England, would instantly become so popular that I doubt they could build stores fast enough. First, Cinnabon. I...Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-14-a-pizza-can-feed-a-family-of-four/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-14-a-pizza-can-feed-a-family-of-four/How to be a good blogger and how to make money blogging have always been closely related questions in my mind. They’re also questions I’ve spen...Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-14-who-are-they-kidding/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-14-who-are-they-kidding/!http://static.flickr.com/24/52390654d371ff2442.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/52390654/Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-13-i-disagree-almost-completely/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-13-i-disagree-almost-completely/Tony Long at Wired says:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68606,00.html?tw=wntophead2 Working on the computer is a little like masturbation: It's b...Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-13-switching-pockets/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-13-switching-pockets/For years, my dad has been telling me that I should carry my wallet in my front pocket. I've always carried it in my back pocket partly because everyone else...Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-13-university-of-sussex-needs-to-join-the-21st-century/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-13-university-of-sussex-needs-to-join-the-21st-century/...by making it possible to print. There are only two computer labs on campus where I can print. This is true not only for me, but for everyone else on campu...Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-hoorayspam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-hoorayspam/I just found a spamment down in the dregs of my journal. Wordpress has this handy feature where it tells me when there's a new comment although I haven' t be...Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-how-to-make-your-laptop-play-multiple-region-dvds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-how-to-make-your-laptop-play-multiple-region-dvds/As a guy with an American laptop in the heart of England, this has been a pressing question on my mind for the past month. Finding the answer was also one of...Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-i-am-a-media-addict/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-i-am-a-media-addict/You know it can't be healthy when you watch four hours of film screenings for class and then head to the library to borrow a movie afterwards. On a side note...Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-steam-reloaded/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-12-steam-reloaded/There's a big change going on with the Steam platform Valve Software's innovative game content delivery system, and it looks alright so far. !http://www.stea...Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-11-new-incentives/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-11-new-incentives/It's funny that the new Bush legislation to improve incentives for buying fuel-efficient vehicles hyrbids actually gives bigger tax breaks to SUVshttp://www....Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-11-serenity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-11-serenity/I went into town and saw Serenityhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ today. !http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:JmFBB7ljB5sJ:www.albeshiloh.com/serenity....Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-10-content-is-king/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-10-content-is-king/On the internet, content is king. No matter how pretty the virtual storefront, or how stylish your .asp coding and java applets are, a site will suffer witho...Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-10-too-much-animal-planet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-10-too-much-animal-planet/It’s interesting that we judge animals by human characteristics. !http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:4oyIXeaPFmAJ:www.monartozp.com.au/dir24/ws.nsf...Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-10-web-2o/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-10-web-2o/For the web, apparently, the future is now. The blogosphere is alive with buzz about Web 2.0. Services like FlickRhttp://www.flickr.com and del.icio.ushttp:/...Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-a-kitten/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-a-kitten/A friend of mine who lives in East Slope there's the East Slope Bar, and East Slope, which is a collection of flats found a kitten in a dumpster the other da...Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-late-at-night/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-late-at-night/More and more often I’m finding it hard to go to sleep because my mind is spinning with ideas before I go to bed. Partially this is because I’m...Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-the-word-is-integration/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-the-word-is-integration/I’ve always tried to reduce. And not just the amount of electricity I use; I like the idea of using less to do more. My pockets are a good example. Ab...Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-violent-video-games/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-09-violent-video-games/I'd like to point out that Schwarzenegger, of all people, has signed a bill against video-game violencehttp://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144497 the irony ...Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-08-terrorism/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-08-terrorism/Fred Wilson, in his post Iraq and Terrorhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/, asks: Are we safer or in more danger because of our war in Iraq? Personally, I think that ...Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-07-my-class-is-film-genres/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-07-my-class-is-film-genres/On Friday, my only class is a two-hour lecture on Film Genres. Actually, it's really only about Film Noir the entire course so I'm not sure why it's plural. ...Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-happy-birthday/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-happy-birthday/To my sister Hillary. She's turning 18 today, and spending her birthday on the probably cold campus of Dartmouth. As I'm in England, I can't do much for pres...Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-its-alive/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-its-alive/I had a few hours of scare this morning while I couldn't access the MySQL database where everything here is stored. At least, WordPress couldn't, and then I ...Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-more-politics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-more-politics/In the San Francisco Chroncilehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/06/MNGAHF34UJ1.DTL this morning: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a victi...Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-the-carnival-of-gamers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-06-the-carnival-of-gamers/!http://www.flickergaming.net/images/carnival.pnghttp://www.flickergaming.net/comment.php?comment.news.86 Don't forget to check out the Carnival of Gamershtt...Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-05-flicker/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-05-flicker/Despite the fact that I myself am extremely enthusiastic about gaming, I don't actually write as much about it as I should. My time is usually split between ...Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-05-wednesday-is-my-busy-day/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-05-wednesday-is-my-busy-day/At home well, at Oxy I'm used to classes being either two or three days a week for a total of three hours. Usually, that means I have a Mon-Wed-Fri schedule ...Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-04-a-little-light-reading/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-04-a-little-light-reading/I just purchased Nonfictionhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&tag=flickergaming-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0224063022/q...Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-04-birds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-04-birds/I got up yesterday morning and saw this bird outside my window, and it looked different to me with its really long tail, so I took a picture and sent it to m...Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-04-wikipedia-speed/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-04-wikipedia-speed/Back when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princehttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&tag=flickergaming-20&creative=9325&path=tg/...Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-a-damn-good-rts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-a-damn-good-rts/As hokey, simple, and racist as it is, Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour is my favorite RTS. Probably because of its simplicity. As a genre develops ov...Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-follow-up-on-politics/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-follow-up-on-politics/This New York Times Articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?ex=1285732800&en=b987c1588d1796a7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss b...Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-lucky-san-francisco/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-lucky-san-francisco/As John Battelle noted, Google has offered to cover San Francisco in WiFi for freehttp://battellemedia.com/archives/001901.php. Regardless of how it happens,...Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-miers/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-03-miers/Ready for another round? Bush chose O'Connor's replacementhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051003/apongoprwh/bushscotus;ylt=Ak3s28f4GkvXL7a68BKLYc6s0NUE;ylu=X3oD...Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-a-new-movie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-a-new-movie/I really want to see A History of Violencehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/. It looks intense.Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-healthcare/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-healthcare/This already showed up on Fred Wilson's bloghttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/ earlier today, so I'm probably echoing to nobody new, but a VC friend of his wrote a po...Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-its-a-popularity-contest/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-its-a-popularity-contest/I'd like to underline a point of disagreement I made a week ago after reading Seth Godin's e-book on blogginghttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/sethsblog/2005/09/w...Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-you-never-look-at-things-properly/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-02-you-never-look-at-things-properly/…until you injure them. I cut my finger two nights ago when I was trying to catch someone who was falling over. It’s basically a pressure cut or...Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-01-how-to-posting-flickr-to-wordpress-manually/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-01-how-to-posting-flickr-to-wordpress-manually/This is the first of a series I'd like to start on this blog. The How-To articles will focus on things that I tend to do that might seem a bit tricky to some...Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-01-rainbow/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-01-rainbow/On the way back from the grocery store today there was a rainbow outside. Since I've gotten myself into the habit of carrying my camera wherever I possibly c...Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-01-sexual-orientation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-10-01-sexual-orientation/Mark Kleiman wrote yesterday about when your sexual orientation is my businesshttp://www.markarkleiman.com/archives//2005/09/whenisyoursexualorientationmybus...Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-a-world-of-difference/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-a-world-of-difference/I’m used to a world—either at home or at school—where the internet is just sort of there. Whenever I’m at a computer, or practica...Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-classes-at-sussex/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-classes-at-sussex/I have to go to the Soccul that's the school within the university my classes are in office and arrange my schedule a bit more. At the moment I think I have ...Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-i-need-to-control-my-irony/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-i-need-to-control-my-irony/As I wandered into the common area to log on and post, I dropped my mouse again, letting it hit the floor because the cord was just too long to stop it befor...Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-voip-is-the-future/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-30-voip-is-the-future/After reading another one of Evslin's posts about ebay, skypke, and VOIPhttp://blog.tomevslin.com/2005/09/willebaybeyo.html, I'm quite ready to believe that ...Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-29-coding-woes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-29-coding-woes/PHP confuses me. I'm looking through other people's code trying to simultaneously teach myself some php and hack together a third column for my already Mille...Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-29-level-60/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-29-level-60/For the first time ever, I just maxed out a video game character. !http://www.flickergaming.net/e107images/newspostimages/thumbsquid59.jpghttp://www.flickerg...Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-deep-frying/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-deep-frying/Amidst the insanely large group of freshman who arrived this weekend were scattered the few additional international students who didn't need the three week ...Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-for-the-klosterman-fans/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-for-the-klosterman-fans/Bill Simmons' latest "Curious Guy" edition is with Chuck Klosterman, the author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffshttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link...Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-thats-a-damn-good-idea/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-thats-a-damn-good-idea/As an ideas man I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen an innovative business spring up only to think, “That was my idea! I told ...Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-traffic-post/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-traffic-post/Being the complete geek that I am, I check the traffic statistics on jason-preston.com daily, if not more. It's an addiction, as I'm sure anyone running thei...Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-what-do-you-call-this/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-28-what-do-you-call-this/Jason Calcanis wrote up a little thought list on where the major internet players are goinghttp://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000380060529/, and all I...Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-27-freshers-week/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-27-freshers-week/In Britain “freshmenâ€? are called “freshers,â€? and instead of having orientation like they do in America, they have Freshers Drinking Wee...Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-27-podcasting-again/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-27-podcasting-again/Wired says: The Podcasting Goldrush Is Onhttp://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68950,00.html?tw=wntophead1. They're probably right. Once again like with ...Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-26-coins/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-26-coins/I disagree with the European system of using coins for money. I’ve probably mentioned this before, but over in Europe and Great Britain they have a va...Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-26-the-tsa-and-the-no-fly-list/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-26-the-tsa-and-the-no-fly-list/Another Wired article, Nun Terrorized by Terror Watchhttp://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68973,00.html?tw=wnstorypageprev2" talks again about the TSA no...Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-25-game-boy-micro/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-25-game-boy-micro/Whatever Nintendo's given up in the main console market to Sony and Microsoft, it's firmly in command of the handheld world of awesome. Engadget has a bunch ...Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-25-money-for-blogging/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-25-money-for-blogging/Wired's article Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68934,00.html?tw=wntophead1 underlines the way in which I think the blog...Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-24-is-a-blog-a-promise/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-24-is-a-blog-a-promise/I'm sure every blogger struggles with writing from time to time. There's a feeling, when you create a blog and a readership, that you've created a promise. Y...Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-23-ahhhnow-that-makes-sense/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-23-ahhhnow-that-makes-sense/Ever since eBay purchased skypehttp://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=181757 for an amazing $2.6 billion good job Skype ...Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-23-tv-licensing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-23-tv-licensing/This morning I woke up to find a pamphlet had be shoved under my door. It was a notice about TV-licensing. Apparently, in England, in order to watch TV you n...Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-22-adsense-monitor/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-22-adsense-monitor/I think Jason Calcanishttp://calcanis.weblogsinc.com or Nick Dentonhttp://www.nickdenton.org/ should grab the Adsense Monitorhttp://code.mincus.com/?p=3 plug...Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-22-the-incomplete-guide/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-22-the-incomplete-guide/I just finished reading Seth Godin's Incomplete Guide to Blogs titled "Who's There?http://sethgodin.typepad.com/sethsblog/2005/09/whostherethe.html" It's a f...Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-22-what-do-you-read-a-blog-for/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-22-what-do-you-read-a-blog-for/I happen to agree with Fredhttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2005/09/transparency.html on Roberts, but what caught my eye about the post is the comment: "Not what I r...Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-21-e-mail-consolidation/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-21-e-mail-consolidation/The internet access here at the University of Sussex is really frustrating. It's one of those things where there are about four spots on campus where you can...Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-21-editing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-21-editing/I touched on this earlier with my post on big mediahttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=116, but I think it needs some further note. Editors are things that blogg...Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-21-i-am-a-desktop-man/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-21-i-am-a-desktop-man/For me, using a laptop is like useing a satellite computer--it's got the stuff I need for the moment, and it's good enough to get through the day, but in the...Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-20-hellgate-london/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-20-hellgate-london/Hellgate: Londonhttp://www.hellgatelondon.com/ caught my eye several months ago whenPC Gamerhttp://www.pcgamer.com/ ran a feature article on it. Basically, t...Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-20-its-link-time/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-20-its-link-time/A bunch of interesting stuff just happened in the blogosphere in the past few days, so I'm going to point some of them out: Jason Calcanis made an "Ask Jason...Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-19-downloadcom-changes-for-worse/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-19-downloadcom-changes-for-worse/It's old news that Download.comhttp://www.download.com changed their site layout, but I hadn't actually been to the site for anything in a while, so it didn'...Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-19-dvd-regions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-19-dvd-regions/Does anyone happen to know if the regional settings on a laptop are built in to the software or the hardware? I'd like to watch the 8-million awesome movies ...Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-18-my-trip-to-dublin/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-18-my-trip-to-dublin/Dublin !http://static.flickr.com/29/44367064ece33557cdm.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonp107/44367064/ This is the scenic river Liffey in the heart of t...Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-15-google-blog-search/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-15-google-blog-search/Interestingly enough, google is blog-searching through bloggerhttp://www.search.blogger.com/, not Google itself. While they lose the Google name-recognition ...Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-15-hot-chocolate/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-15-hot-chocolate/There must be something massochistic hard-wired into me, because about once every week I see Hot Chocolate for £1, and excitedly burn the shit out of my t...Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-15-search-traffic-how-to/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-15-search-traffic-how-to/I'm willing to bet I can boost my search traffic and popularity by starting a "how to" series on this blog. Looking at the hits I get from search phrases, I ...Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-13-asoc-has-gone-crazy/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-13-asoc-has-gone-crazy/I just saw an ad for someone's ASOC campaign on the facebook. It was a paid ad, and I'm assuming it's somehow filtered for Oxy. Who's paying money to adverti...Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-12-the-great-media-revolution/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-12-the-great-media-revolution/This may come as a surprise to some people, but I love to write. First livejournalhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/jasonp107 and now Wordpresshttp://wordpres...Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-11-the-return/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-11-the-return/Part of the reason I've never --- ever --- hit the "top level" with a character in a video game is that I have the attention span of a 3-year old when it com...Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-10-categories/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-10-categories/I've never really been happy with the way the categories have worked out on this blog. When I first installed Wordpress on Jason-Preston.com, I wasn't really...Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-09-aha-simmons/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-09-aha-simmons/Ever since my friends David and Jeremy pointed me to the work of Bill Simmonshttp://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index over at ESPN's Page 2http://s...Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-09-learning-about-laptops/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-09-learning-about-laptops/In the past few days, through the process of thinking that my laptop was fucked and off to the fujitsu shop in a cardboard box, then miraculously fixing it, ...Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-09-oxy-podcast-1/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-09-oxy-podcast-1/Despite the fact that the 'cast has been ready for nearly a month, sitting on my hard disk under the "oxy podcast" folder I created specifically for it, I am...Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-08-computer/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-08-computer/Basically a few minutes after my last post some asshat in the computer lab managed to spill beer right up the heat sink of my lovely little laptop. It is now...Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-06-katrina/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-06-katrina/I've essentially ignored the results of Hurrican Katrina online up until now because I haven't had anything significant to say myself or anything to link to ...Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-05-the-secrets-of-the-octopus/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-05-the-secrets-of-the-octopus/I hate to be an echo chamber, but this videohttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/mediaplayersblue/sharkhi.html is too damn cool.Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-02-time-zones/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-09-02-time-zones/It's kind of neat to be on this schedule with blogs because I read one set of blog posts in the morning yesterdays, and then get an entirely new set in the e...Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-31-leaving-israel/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-31-leaving-israel/Just a quick update on where I'm going to be... At 1am this time I'll be leaving the U. Haifa campus for TLV the airport...and I'll hopefully arrive sometime...Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-29-networking-itunes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-29-networking-itunes/Fred Wilson wrote a solid entry on how DRM doesn't scalehttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2005/08/drmdoesntscal.htmlcomment-8939831, targeting essentially the problem...Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-29-pimping-the-net-services/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-29-pimping-the-net-services/One of the things I absolutely love about blogs is how they pimp new stuff. This is the "echo chamber" that people tend to talk about---once a new, cool tool...Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-28-bathroom-graffiti-poet-emerges-from-stall/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-28-bathroom-graffiti-poet-emerges-from-stall/by Jacob Brown The crowded café surges with Bohemian energy as an assortment of pony- tailed artists discuss life over lattes. Here, among the biscotti, e...Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-28-blog-search/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-28-blog-search/Amongst the bitching about Technorati's service, people have uncovered IceRocket blog searchhttp://blogs.icerocket.com/. So far, I've heard good things. Let'...Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-28-scattered-impressions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-28-scattered-impressions/I can tell it’s been a good weekend because I just slept extremely well on a tile floor for over 10 hours. In fact, the only thing I can think of that...Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-25-venice-has-no-grass/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-25-venice-has-no-grass/It took me basically a full day to realize that everything in venice is stone or water. Venice is really a "do it in 24-hours" town. Jeff and I were there fo...Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-21-some-uploads/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-21-some-uploads/By some trick of cool I've managed to upload two videos and two audio files for everyone on the travel page. They're all from the three days I spent in Paris...Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-20-we-made-it-to-florence/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-20-we-made-it-to-florence/And found an internet cafe... But we really did have a reason to be here. We made a reservation for the museum where the statue of David is, and needed to pr...Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-18-im-alive/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-18-im-alive/Pictures and at least twoo videos and one audio to come! Not dead yet! Mostly I can't get to the 'net from my own computer. I have to use this shit thng pict...Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-15-im-off/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-15-im-off/Actually I left yesterday? time is so confusing, but I didn't have chance to post before I left since I was too busy forgetting things to take with me. The f...Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-13-christopher-walken-for-president/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-13-christopher-walken-for-president/Honstly, though, I can't decide if it's serious.http://www.walken2008.com/index.htmlSat, 13 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-12-church-and-state-and-school/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-12-church-and-state-and-school/Partially inspired by Ben's posthttp://www.pixelumbrella.com/adlin.com/?p=30 the other day, I had a discussion with my parents about the push for "intelligen...Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-12-game-advertising/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-12-game-advertising/Normally I woulnd't link gratuitously to and entry in my other journal like thishttp://www.flickergaming.net/comment.php?comment.news.63, but Ethan has found...Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-12-the-morning-rouitine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-12-the-morning-rouitine/As far as newsreading routines go, I'm sure my new habits are a little bit strange. Mostly, it's a product of Firefox and the fact that I'm in love with tabb...Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-11-91/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-11-91/Sorry about the audioblog link...I've got that fixed now. I just named the file something massively different than what I had a link to why?? who knows. I've...Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-11-quotes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-11-quotes/This is probably the most useless post I'll ever make here, but today's Google "quotes of the day" contained a particularly good one: You see, wire telegraph...Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-10-audioblog/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-10-audioblog/I'll give it a shot/media/audioblog-8-10-05.mp3.Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-09-88/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-09-88/I read an excellent book a while ago called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timehttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?linkcode=ur2&camp=178...Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-09-mcdonalds-needs-a-new-ad-firm/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-09-mcdonalds-needs-a-new-ad-firm/Really, all I need to say is "I'm lovin' in?" But I also just saw a McDonalds commercial that billed this new chicken sandwich as a "fancy meal." I'm sorry, ...Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-09-msn-filter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-09-msn-filter/I'm just going to chalk this up as another idea that I never had a hope of pulling out. Flickerhttp://www.flickergaming.net is meant to be a gaming-niche blo...Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-08-jobroll/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-08-jobroll/I've added a small item to the sidebar. It's an active feed from an indeedhttp://www.indeed.com search for jobs relating to Blogs, Blogging, or Blog. So if y...Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-08-posting-subcribing-tagging-andlinking/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-08-posting-subcribing-tagging-andlinking/This is actually about a week late it's a funny concept that things on the internet can be "late," isn't it?, but I wanted to comment on Fred Wilson's post a...Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-08-the-theatre/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-08-the-theatre/When someone says "I'm going to the theater" in today's day and age, I usually assume they mean the movie theater, and that they're planning to purchase popc...Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-07-back-and/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-07-back-and/mostly dead tired. I've got a fair list of posts to write, and I'll try to get at least two out tomorrow. But no promises.Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-06-startcom-im-a-fan/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-06-startcom-im-a-fan/I just thought I'd reiterate my praise for the newfound home page at Start.comhttp://www.start.com/3 by relaying a two-day e-mail turnaround via their "feedb...Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-05-a-little-buzzmachine/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-05-a-little-buzzmachine/I try to avoid just quoting and linking when i can, but Jeff Jarvis today wrote a very good piece about an interview NPR did with Sen. Rick Santorum earlier ...Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-04-a-few-notes/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-04-a-few-notes/Took the drive with my family down to Ashland today to see a few shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.orshakes.org/. We just arrived at the mot...Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-03-sphincter-del-sol/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-03-sphincter-del-sol/The long-awaited Sphincter Del Solhttp://video.google.com/videopreviewbig?q=sphincter+del+sol+playable%3Atrue&time=0&page=1&docid=6997735458540585551&urlcrea...Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-03-startcom/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-03-startcom/If you go to http://www.start.com, you won't find anything impressive, but if you go herehttp://www.start.com/3/, you'll find a "preview" version of start.co...Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-03-the-ultimate-pack-rat/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-03-the-ultimate-pack-rat/I began this summer with cleaning. It's probably the first time in my life I've ever been part of "spring cleaning," at least not to any voluntary degree. Bu...Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-02-oh-ebay/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-02-oh-ebay/Text ads have clearly come a long way in the past few years...google now allows certain scripts to run, customizing ads to certain searches. This is a techni...Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-02-windows-vista/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-02-windows-vista/I'm sitting here with my friend Jeff in his dad's office at Microsoft, updating from the new IE7 running on "Windows R Codename Longhorn: for testing purpose...Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-01-long-days/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-01-long-days/It's amazing how much longer the day seems when you get up early. I'm not really a morning person, and I've carefully arranged my schedule so that I don't us...Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-01-my-music-and-spam/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-08-01-my-music-and-spam/Two fairly unrelated subjects, I know. I don't know how many people have actually come across the earthlink and mindspring system of requiring that unapprove...Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-31-okay-so-that-was-a-blatant-lie/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-31-okay-so-that-was-a-blatant-lie/I apologize about promising pictures...I brought my camera up to Canada with me yesterday, but it turns out that I took exactly two pictures in the past twen...Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-30-canada/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-30-canada/I'll post peektures when I get back tomorrow night or maybe post monday.Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-29-another-useful-trick/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-29-another-useful-trick/I just thought I'd mention this because it was bugging the hell out of me. In the comments area, Wordpress seems to be deleting the new line breaks, screwing...Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-29-cool-feature/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-29-cool-feature/Most of you who use macs on a day to day basis probably already know this, but today was the first time I'd really seen this little feature used. Aside from ...Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-28-understanding-new-areas/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-28-understanding-new-areas/I find that while I subscribe to a large number of newsfeeds, there are only six or seven that I make sure I check every day. These feeds enjoy a special "A ...Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-27-follow-up-on-os-names/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-27-follow-up-on-os-names/I seem to have struck a chord with my post on Apple's imagehttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=64, and I got a lot of really good points in the comments that I h...Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-27-how-the-internet-works/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-27-how-the-internet-works/I was curious about the sudden jump my blog took with my Apple posts, so I spent a few minutes digging through my stats program to find the culprit. So here'...Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-27-your-flickr/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-27-your-flickr/I know, I know...what is it? "Your FlickR" is my little version of an idea I ganked from Benhttp://www.pixelumbrella.com/adlin.com/?pageid=20. Basically, I'v...Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-26-apples-image/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-26-apples-image/Appropriately following my previous post on how cool Steve Jobs can be, I thought I'd take a second to flesh out my disagreement with the way Apple names the...Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-25-google-homepage/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-25-google-homepage/Remember when I posted about how customized Google was better than My Yahoo!http://www.jason-preston.com/?p=35? I had one real complaint about how the Google...Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-25-steve-jobs-can-speak/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-25-steve-jobs-can-speak/This is old news by now, but I haven't really seen it reverberating around the 'net too much, so I thought I'd post the link myself. As much as people think ...Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-25-tablet-pc/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-25-tablet-pc/I've seen two tablet PC's in the past week, which is more than I've even heard of in probably the past year. When I went around looking at various laptops an...Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-24-things-and-happenings/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-24-things-and-happenings/Jeff Jarvishttp://www.buzzmachine.com/, one of the more widely-read bloggers moved his buzzmachine blog to WordPresshttp://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005...Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-23-barqs-got/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-23-barqs-got/Tomorrow I'll be joining my friends Benhttp://www.pixelumbrella.com/adlin.com/ and Rickeyhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/storyr/ heads up: he tends to prote...Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-23-bite/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-23-bite/Just got back from the Bite of Seattlehttp://www.biteofseattle.com, which was overall pretty cool. Today was absolutely beautiful, and there were tons of peo...Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-23-funny/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-23-funny/If you misspell library in a google search like thishttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=ig&q=lirbary+audio+books+download&btnG=Google+Search, I think i...Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-flicker-is-on-the-map/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-flicker-is-on-the-map/I'd like to commemorate today as the day on which Flickerhttp://www.flickergaming.net made its first 3 cents with Google Ads. If this keeps up, I'll make 36 ...Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-make-cash-through-free/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-make-cash-through-free/This is an excellent posthttp://avc.blogs.com/avc/2005/07/indefenseoff.html about how offering a product or service for free isn't necessarily incompatible w...Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-metamorphosis-complete/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-metamorphosis-complete/I've just spent the past...four hours completely redesigning the site. I've basically modified an existing theme from the ground up. I feel like I should ren...Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-okay-this-makes-more-sense/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-okay-this-makes-more-sense/I can strike down another draft post I've had waiting for a while, because Microsoft apparently hasn't gone batty with names like I was under the impression ...Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-small-things/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-small-things/- At the beach yesterday I was quietly minding my own business when the right side of my face started to sweel up for no particular reason. It wasn't a mass ...Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-the-patriot-act/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-22-the-patriot-act/I feel like if this kind of simple, broken-down list of what the Patriot Acts lets our government do made the front page of a few major newspapers, this perm...Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-21-bumper-sticker/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-21-bumper-sticker/Hahaha Republicans for Voldemorthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gwaldon/27600465/Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-21-forgot-about-rove/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-21-forgot-about-rove/Watching the Daily Show last week, I heard John Stewart make one of the most salient observations about this administration i've heard. He said, more or less...Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-21-harry-potter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-21-harry-potter/The end of Half-Blood Prince proved me wrong about a lot of the predictions I made while I was reading it. Spoilers Ahead: I was wrong about who the Prince w...Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-20-goings-on/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-20-goings-on/Disregard: I'm curious to see if anyone likes this theme better than the one I've been using. I can, of course, customize the sidebar and feed information ag...Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-20-i-just-finished-harry-potter/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-20-i-just-finished-harry-potter/A few days behind the mad rush, i know, so now I have to go around and catch up with all these damn blog entries...Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-19-firefox-extensions/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-19-firefox-extensions/Okay, gripe first: Before I knew that there were so many plugins available, I spent a good bit of time looking for a "submit idea" link on the Mozillahttp://...Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-19-link-time/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-19-link-time/My last post, consisting largely of links, reminded me that I haven't done much linking recently. Someone needs to adapt the output from Del.icio.us Daily Li...Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-19-swastiwha/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-19-swastiwha/How can one possibly design this building uninentionally: Image removed — original hosted on WordPresshttp://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.675679,-117.157238&sp...Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-18-firefox/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-18-firefox/I'm a big fan of Firefox. I think the first time I switched browsers was on my laptop last year in philosophy. I've been known to carry the thing to boring c...Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-16-rss-feeds/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-16-rss-feeds/I've just gone spelunking through the code of this damn site, and I'm actually impressed the thing is still here. I ought to find out how to backup everythin...Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-15-my-yahoosucks/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-15-my-yahoosucks/After hearing again and again about the virtues of using My Yahoo! as a homepage--it gathers rss feeds, it's got all the info you need, search box, completel...Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-14-stat-tracking/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-14-stat-tracking/I definitely need to find a way other than using feedburner, because I don't know how to change the link to keep track of who's subscribed to the RSS feed on...Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-13-a-much-needed-plugin/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-13-a-much-needed-plugin/It occured to me that I spend a lot of unnecessary time typing out all the html tags for every one of those links you find in my entries. I'm not really awar...Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-13-how-do-these-places-make-money/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-13-how-do-these-places-make-money/I'm going to start a new series here at Jason-Preston.com, and it's going to be an ongoing work. Whenever I come across something that's highly successful, b...Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-12-internet-celebrity/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-12-internet-celebrity/It's really funny how the blogosphere has created an entirely new world of celebrity. There are some very widely known people within a very tightly knit circ...Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-12-microsoft-is-hiring/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-12-microsoft-is-hiring/There have been rumors throughout the past several months starting with a Wall Street Journal article I can't find about "corporate blogger" becomimg more an...Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-cuts/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-cuts/Figured that one out. Actually, I figured out how to modify the feature before I figured out how to use it. Apparently there's a "more" button just above my ...Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-flicker-gaming/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-flicker-gaming/My long-labored over gaming bloghttp://www.flickergaming.net is finally live. If you take an interest in video games at all, you should go check it out. Who ...Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-second-round-at-blog-searching/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-second-round-at-blog-searching/As a follow-up to my last entryhttp://www.jason-preston.com/?p=27, it also occurs to me that Technorati isn't necessarily dead in the water. This blogspottin...Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-where-is-blog-search-headed/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-11-where-is-blog-search-headed/I'm a day or two behind on this bit of news, but I might as well echo what's being said on A VChttp://avc.blogs.com/avc, Blogspottinghttp://www.businessweek....Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-10-more-wordpress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-10-more-wordpress/I really should find a way to put an "extended entry" field in my WordPress admin area. Probably that's just a matter of browsing the WordPress plugins direc...Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-10-why-with-all-the-podcasting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-10-why-with-all-the-podcasting/x-posted on the Blog Business Summithttp://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/ blog. After mulling over it for a while, I've finally coughed up a half-decent explana...Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-09-progress/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-09-progress/As I mentioned before, I've been incredibly busy lately, but I've actually been getting work done. I'm a little over halfway done with the Podcasting instruc...Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-08-amazoncom-reaches-ten-years-and-as-a-bonus/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-08-amazoncom-reaches-ten-years-and-as-a-bonus/When I went to visit Amazon.com today they had a 10year old birthday notice on their page. The most interesting part was this: "As a special thanks for suppo...Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-08-busy-busy-bee/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-08-busy-busy-bee/I've been so busy recently with everything I'm trying to do. I made a list last night of all the things I'd like to get done "in the near future" and it's li...Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-07-london-bombing/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-07-london-bombing/World recoils in horror at London attackshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050707/wlnm/securitybritainworlddc !http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20050...Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-06-dell/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-06-dell/I spent a few hours yesterday slogging through the search engines looking at posts people made about their experience with Dell tech support for this posthtt...Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-06-wired-news-online-pirates-nailed-in-sting/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-06-wired-news-online-pirates-nailed-in-sting/Wired News: Online Pirates Nailed in Stinghttp://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68059,00.html?tw=rss.TOP Apparently, governments around the world are fin...Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-05-flickr-the-new-hot-sidebar-item/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-05-flickr-the-new-hot-sidebar-item/After spending an hour or so mulling around the WordPress Codexhttp://codex.wordpress.org and various other helpful sites, I've managed to successfully insta...Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-05-pink-floyd-at-live-8-london/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-05-pink-floyd-at-live-8-london/I was looking through my usual list of the ususal at 1am 4th of July evening, because I am a loser and I found a cool post on A VChtpp://avc.blogs.com/avc/. ...Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-05-tom-cruise-kills-oprah/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-05-tom-cruise-kills-oprah/Just in case you haven't seen it yet, I ganked this awesome video from Waxy.orghttp://www.waxy.org where it's been ridiculously popular. Take a gander and yo...Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-04-the-4th-of-july/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-04-the-4th-of-july/Happy 4th of July. Be it in your mind a day symbolic of America's great triumph over the tyranny of British injustice and the repression of freedom, or a day...Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-03-blog-tracking-and-tags/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-03-blog-tracking-and-tags/Technoratihttp://www.technorati.com and Blogpulsehttp://www.blogpulse.com are probably the two more prominent services that track blog posts and acitivity, a...Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-03-ringtones/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-03-ringtones/For a very reasonable price of $39 last year I bought a cord that connects my motorola phone to my computer and lets me download pictures, videos, and contac...Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-03-stealing-mail/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-03-stealing-mail/Tonight is the second time in the past few days I've run into this mail thief that's been prowling Medina late at night. This time I tried to follow him and ...Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-02-advertising/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-02-advertising/I think that with the advent pun totally intended of services like Google's Adsense and Amazon's little comission program, we're reaching an age where advert...Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-02-dvd-players/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-02-dvd-players/My friends Jeremy, Jacob and Adam have been watching the Sopranos in my basement with me this evening, but we've been playing it with the PS2. And every othe...Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-01-hello-world/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-01-hello-world/I thought I'd leave the subject alone, at any rate... Jason-Preston.com has undergone a structural change, again. I'm now running the site under the Wordpres...Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-01-who-runs-the-internet/https://jrpreston.com/writing/archive/2005-07-01-who-runs-the-internet/I tend to post links more often than I probably should, but what the hell. This articlehttp://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68065,00.html?tw=wntophead2 ...Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMTarchive