I’ve decided that my eyes need a break. That means I either have to get into landscaping or warehouse work, or invest in some more technology. Since the latter is pretty much my thing, I need a pair of these Gunnar eSport PPKs (UPDATE – Ordered on 3/1/10)
My buddy Dan says they rock, [...]
For the Love of Seeing – Gunnar Computer Glasses
Strange Wordpress Attachment Page Error
I was running into a strange Wordpress error on attachment pages that were linked from a gallery embed on a normal blog post, and only for unauthenticated users. This happened in the both the custom theme as well as the default theme of the site in question under Wordpress 2.9.2
The error was “Warning: Attempt to [...]
The Ubuntu Dev Platform: Part 2 – Install Ubuntu
Welcome to part 2 in a series of articles on building, using Sun’s VirtualBox, a basic Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine (VM) for the development of PHP and Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. However, we aren’t quite there yet. In this step, we are installing Ubuntu Linux (9.10) on the [...]
Building an Ubuntu Dev Platform: Part 1 – VirtualBox
The goal of this article is to build, using Sun’s VirtualBox, a basic Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine (VM) for the development of PHP and Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. We will be relying on the nginx web server, MySQL database engine, and Phusion Passenger (along with their Ruby Enterprise Edition) [...]
For the love of Sitting – The Topstar Sitness 5
After sitting on one of these at the St. Louis Science Center, I’ve decided it is a must have. Brooke and I both need one, red or black would do.
At time of writing, Overstock.com had the best price. (89.99USD for the red ones)
Here is a Shot of Brooke’s hand and a green one!
VirtualBox Folder Sharing
So you read about how much I love VirtualBox and you decided to give it a go. You downloaded and installed VirtualBox (3.1.2 at time of writing) on your Windows computer. Then you grabbed the latest .ISO of Ubuntu Linux (9.10) and walked through VirtualBox’s New Virtual Machine Wizard to create your very first virtual [...]
I Love VirtualBox
Sun’s VirtualBox is a tool I’ve come to rely on for virtualization, and I seriously rely on virtualization. What is virtualization and why do I rely on it so much? Virtualization, in the most basic possible sense of the not-really-a-word, is a method of running one or more operating systems inside another wholly separate [...]
Hello (Cruel) World!
My name is Jason, and this is my online journal, or ‘blog, or vanity site, or whatever. Thanks for stopping by.