Facebook’s Privacy is not Sensational

A lot of people are getting up in arms over this anonymous tell all article about the kind of insight Facebook has into your browsing habits, messaging history, and more. I can tell you that nothing, nothing, in that article made my eyes pop out of my head or my anger rise to boiling levels. They [...]

California Host: Beyond Cheap

Browsing though some job listings, this one in particular piqued my interest, so I thought I’d write a letter to the company. Dear California Host, Hello! I would like to book your services to host a get away training seminar for my staff of 20 in Hawaii! Please book a 5 star hotel and first class round [...]

The Hydra Project

I think what I find most unique about the Hydra Project is that it uses the same developmental mentality of open source (more eyes == less holes) to create a project solely aimed at piracy. Real encryption standards all have their entire source published. The basis of this idea is that “security through obscurity” is a [...]

Not Impressed

So we’re going to mandate our vehicles make a whopping 35MPG in fuel efficiency by 2020 (12 years from now?). Perhaps I’m crazy, but that sounds extremely low to me — most the cars I’ve driven are already hitting 25-30 — squeezing out that extra 5 seems more like doing something that only looks good [...]

The Matrox TripleHead2Go DVI Edition in Review

I’ve been drooling over the possibility of ultra wide screen gaming for a while now. When I first went to dual monitors, the difference was staggering. I was more productive, I had more room to mentally breathe instead of constantly switching monitors around and it was just a huge boost in almost every area [...]

Why MySpace is No Longer “My Space” and How Facebook Replaced It

I've replaced MySpace with Facebook and I'll tell you why you should as well.

Hardware Pr0n

So the new parts for Gibson, my colocated server, showed up today. A 70 lbs. 3u server case, 2 hard drives, some cpu coolers, and a wicked awesome raid card (Areca 1230, google it.) So, I had to transfer all the old parts that I was keeping into the new case and install the new parts [...]

Comment Timeline Visualization

While gawking at some of the really cools toys by Moritz Stefaner , I got particularly interested in his post about visualizing time gaps in data and had a moment of inspiration. Instead of vertically gaping the data, you could “timeline” the data like we used to do in gradeschool. (I was also looking at some [...]

Of Tall Walls and Distributed Data in Social Networks

I’ve a decent history of social networking sites. Friendster, LiveJournal, Xanga, DeviantArt, MySpace, LinkedIn, and now Facebook. Nearly every one of these social networks has a slightly different focus (such as art, music, career, etc), but almost every one of them has one thing in common — a “blog” space. Let’s take my prime example here, [...]

Welcome to my New, Old Site.

I warn you, because it's something you're not used to any more: You're going to have to click. Click now, and click lots, damnit! I'm tired of sitemaps and roll out menus and fitting all your navigation into a too-small border along the heavy edge of every webpage.

LinkJax 1.0

Looking to hop on that AJAX bandwagon? Here's an extremely simple, unobtrusive library that will get your pages AJAX'ed and rolling in less than 30 minutes.

Long Since Due

I've slowly watched the cobwebs grow on this site as I've been very busy with other things, see what they are.

Building jrm.cc – Plugins

A series about how I built jrm.cc -- This time I cover the Plugins used here.

Video for the Web

Encoding video for the web and getting it onto your website can be a time consuming and frustrating experience. These steps will make the process simple and easy.

Rebooting

Welcome to the new website for Jeff Minard -- portfolio, blog, gallery, and more. A lot went into the redesign and recoding of this site, so take a peak behind the scenes.

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