Ben working on this new design for Uid10t.com. I also upload a few of the banners to my graphics section.

jason

This was a site my friend kevin let me in on. Check it out, kinda cool list of sites. All of the sites listed or those of the top web 2.0 sites out there. Maybe sometime soon ill have a site worthy of putting up there

http://www.go2web20.net/

Jason Rogers

So, im not the greatest designer out there. Actually im by far really bad at it. So one of the things i have a major problem is with picking out colors for my design. Here are two sites i find very invaluable to my daily designing needs.

http://www.colourlovers.com/
http://www.colorschemer.com/

Hope that helps a tad

Jason Rogers

Found this article on digg this morning Drunkest cities. I wonder how they measured this?

I was talking to the marketing manager here where I work at greenculture today. I had him go to this site to evaluate anything I could do to improve usability and bring up my overall traffic. The first thing he told me was I have no niche. I write about whatever the h3ll I want. Well I sat down and really thought about it, and there is nothing I know better then ecommerce.

One of the first things people ask when doing a start up is “Where do i start? This might not be such a good idea.. :(”. Most people have this problem where they have know one to tell them a good focal point to start. So here is a list of things to get you started.

1. The first thing is figure out what product/service you are going to sell. Dont worry about how to sell them at this point, just figure out what you want to sell. An example of something I chose is on my website Lilyputts which sells gift baskets. I chose this product mostly becuase after step 2 i got really discouraged by the competition, so I kept re-choosing.

2. The next step involved would be to check the competition. Go to google and type in what your selling, think of yourself as the customer and check other sites and see what there doing to sell the product you’ve chosen. I’ve had to do this countless times, and its no fun.

Nugget of knowledge*: They say it takes about 2 years to have a presence on the web. So you have plenty of time to figure out what you want to do.

ps. More to come on this
Author: Jason Rogers

Trip out, two game reviews in the last couple weeks….very unlike me. So i picked this game up mid 2007 on PC. Great game except for the fact that i couldn’t run it very well, so i pretty much put it aside. Well recently after purchasing a PS3 i bought this game again. Damn ive spent 120 bucks on this game. A side note: You need to play on a large HD, i have a 1080i 57inch, and its uber.

So far the game is pretty cool, but i believe it really picked up when i entered the shivering isles. Its a constant epic tale where the decisions you make change everything. Basically there are two areas, the upper half and lower half of the isle. The upper is controlled by Mania and in turn is pretty beautifull to look at. In inverse is the lower half is controlled by Dementia and it looks pretty dark and evil. Mania is full the creative artists and philosopher who are out of there minds. Dementia is essentially a load of people that are sickly near dieing. They steal and kill and are pretty much really sadistic. Along the story you essentially get to choose your side among several different points. I choose mainy the Mania side. Basically the side you pick determines slightly some of the items you pick. Like Mania the side i picked i get a lot of light armor that gives stats that benefit magic.

I only have one major problem so far. My brother was playing on it and got bit by a vampire, so he went and did the quest to cure it. Long behold the quest wouldnt complete and he got stuck as a vampire. After some research online i found that the ps3 version is glitched and if you dont cure vampirism within 3 days, your essentially stuck as a vampire.

So all in all i give the game 9/10. I love the expansion, but the normal oblivion game is just good..not uber.

Author: Jason Rogers

Well, i’ve never actually cared until today…The day before. Tomorow happens to be leap year, and the first time ive noticed. So as follows im doing research to figure it out. I can think of a few theories. The most being that our lunar year is off slightly so we compensate every four years with an extra day. Hmm. Maybe it has something to do with the time changes twice a year, however im pretty sure those are just a waste of time. There just a way for the farmers to get an extra couple hours during planting season. Which to me is a waste of time for the rest of us. Ok maybe there is no connection that i can see for the that last one, but i wanted to complain anyways.

So i simply went to wikipedia and found this “In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are divisible by 4 are leap years. In a leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a solar year is almost 6 hours longer than 365 days.” Check it out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year. There is mroe info on it.

Kinda solves it all. I guess i was right on my first theory.

Author: Jason Rogers

Well i bought Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare about 4-5 days ago for a whopping $64 total. After getting home and popping it into my Ps3 I was pretty dissapointed. Actaully to the fact that i turned it off, and proceeded to complain and whine. My biggest mistake was going into believing it was going to be super tactical, something like Ghost Recon or Rainbow Six. So i cant really take it back so sunday i turned it back on. This time however i realised i just hated the first few levels.

The game is remarkable realistic. From the start picking up grenades and throwing them back at people sounds simple, but actually doing it in a game is uber. One of my only complaints is that in the PC version you can lean around a corner, however the Ps3 cannot do this. It’s pretty upsetting, but i can see why the developers didn’t do this….becuase there aren’t enough buttons on the controller. Another up is the sniping, pretty well done. If you click the left stick and hold it down your character will take a deep breath and the gun will steady until he cant hold it any more. The game is not just realistic visually, but story wise also. I wont give anything away, but they dramatisize several aspects of the story. Kinda hard to stomach some of the things they do. Reminds of a old war movie that makes you want to cringe at some of the things they do to people.

Im not sure of the value of reply however. After beating it i went back and tried to play certain missions again, and found myself bored. However im ready to try the online gameplay. We’ll see how that goes next week.

All and all the game was pretty good had some difficulty getting into it, but thats probably just me being retarded. I give it a 8.5/10. Oh yeah when you finish it, wait till the end of the credits.

Author: Jason Rogers

Well i didnt do it accidentally. So ive always wanted to try this. If your wondering what this is then ill enlighten you. ‘rm’ is for remove, and ‘-r’ is to recursive remove from current directory, and ‘f’ is to force shutdown the process so it can be removed. No say your did this in the root of the linux server. Would it actually remove the kernel? Now onto the story. We had a web server being put out of commission. I took 3 screenshots as i did it.

So the first screenshot here is me just typing it.

This next one i kept typing ‘ls’ and eventually the ‘rm’ deleted the command ‘ls’.

Then when the commands were deleted i had nothing else to do but shut it down.


As im sure you know, it was very much fun to be destructive.

Jason Rogers

So i ran across this article on digg.com this morning. Talks about the Amber Room of Russia. Kinda interesting that no one knows where its at. Who knows maybe its in your backyard.

Jason Rogers