Jason H. Davis

Jerry Seinfield is teaming up with Bill Gates to help improve Microsoft’s vista image problem. They’ve recently launched their second ad (4:30s long). It’s clear that Seinfield had a lot to do with it, but there doesn’t seem to be much about what makes Vista better.

This may be good at lightening up PCs image, but Bill Gates is really old. And Jerry Seinfield was on a popular sitcom in the 90s. Hardly seems relevant to my computing experience.

This is two days in a row. Hopefully the blogging habit will continue. This will be quick, though.

I posted one of the first episodes on the new podcasting system today. It’s a Live in the Lobby of the Athens “Electric Bluegrass” band Splinterbelly.

Settling into the role as Webmaster at the radio station has gone well. I’ve started backing up the current site and will be working on organizing it more soon. The podcasting system took a big jump to 100% completion today. This was more of a back-end upgrade to make it easier for the people (including me) doing the podcasts.

That’s it for now. Just an FYI, I’m taking down most of the site for now and leaving just the blog. When the rest of my site comes back up, it will have the same structure/layout, but it will have a different design.

End Transmission.

There’s a new theme for the blog. This was created by Darren Hoyt from Smashing Magazine.

Again, it has been a while since I’ve updated! School is still plugging along. I’m now a month in. I’ve been having 12-hour days on campus.

There’s a Digital Media meeting at WUOG today. We’re still teaching Audacity and FTP, the requirements for creating a podcast.

Also, I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments. They don’t show up because they wait for my approval. As I was going through them, it seems a lot of them dissapared without me even seeing them. So, if your comment got lost, sorry. If you can remember it, post it again. If you haven’t commented, give it a try.

More real soon! I promise!

A quick update:

School has started and is going well. Today was Monday #2. I have been biking to campus, and I’m really falling in love with it. It’s a great workout. Classes are exciting. I’m looking forward to Graphic Communication, which I have tomorrow.

The WUOG Podcasting page which I have been working on for the summer launched this past weekend. It was a fairly big job. Podcast Generator made it a lot easier. Also, I made a screencast of the new system: It’s on YouTube.

A little bit of narcissism and this green search engine (write-up later?) led me to find someone that found my Time Machine article useful. That’s genuinely rewarding.

It looks like things are slowing down. Or that could be the dreariness and the rain. Regardless, I will continue blogging soon.

-Jason

I installed Linux today. More specificly, Ubuntu linux. Linux as a whole is the combined effort of thousands of programers making an operating system. It is completly free (as in money) and free as in anyone can write their own version of Linux.

It’s fairly similar to Windows, but there are some definite differences. Overall I like it, but it will take some getting use to.

There was a bit of a snafu trying to get it installed. I almost lost all of my pictures, but after about 5 hours of restoring, they were back. It was a close call.

I’m getting settled into Athens for another semester. I’ll be riding a bike to school this year. It should be out of the shop by tomorrow.

I wrote this post before the one about Time Machine but it didn’t get posted. Anyway, here it is.

Moving into the new Apparent is plugging along. Hopefully I’ll be done tomorrow. Once I have things arranged physically, I can begin organizing digitally. I got a 750Gb hard drive for my birthday; already having a 250Gb drive will push me to 1Tb. This would be enough room for roughly 30 thousand albums. The actual setup will be a bit more complicated. Here’s what I want the organization to achieve.

• Complete backup of my Macbook
• Installation of Windows with plenty of free space for programs
• Installation of Linux with a starter amount of space for programs
• A media partition that directly represents what gets put on my iPod
• Seperate document partition for easy backup
• Seperate page file partition for better performance
• Extra space dedicated to future possibilities including recording television shows

I’ll post the final breakdown once it’s finished.

Busy Bee!
Jason

I’m out of my old appartment and couldn’t be happier. My birthday was yesterday, which was nice. I was happy to get a lot of happy birthdays. I have a vistor in town, so I’m showing her around Athens.

School starts on the 18th, so I hope to have time to work on this site before the start of the new semester. There have been a lot of bumps. I might be moving in the right direction now.

-Jason

Moving is terrible. Especially when it’s super hot outside. We got the entire downstairs cleaned out today. A couch, recliner, a couple of tables, and a large tv. We’ve vacumed and cleaned most of the floor as well.

I’ve hardly even touched getting the stuff out of my room. I think I’m going to disassemble some things that won’t fit in the room and simply store them under my bed or in a closet.

There’s a post about the New Facebook coming up in the next day or so. It’s written, I just want to get it right before it gets posted.

-Jason

And I don’t like that very much.

In the next couple of days I’ll be working on using a different color scheme and different graphics. I’m going to try and soften up the edges of the content areas as well.

I got a lot done at WUOG today. I’m pretty happy with how Podcast Generator integrated into the existing design.

I’ll be going to a friend’s wedding tomorrow. They’re a great pair and I wish them luck.

-Jason

If you’re looking for a little distraction, you might want to check out the Titled Background Designer. While it’s not brimming with images, the colors, scaling, transparency, and rotate options open it up quite a bit.

Also, the New Facebook design is viewable if you click that link. Doing so will change your profile to the New view. It’s a HUGE change in terms of information organization. It takes quite a bit of getting used to, but it has come definite advantages.

End Transmission.
Jason