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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6463 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 21009 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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We Need More Geek Graphic DesignersAnd CNN needs to hire one of them so that when they do a story about Open-Source software taking over the world, they don't use a screen-shot of VisiCalc in their graphics. Link via NTK. 2 CommentsJesse Thompson said on 08/08/04 @ 02:15 PM:Yeah, the article was ameturely written and put together. Actually it might hurt us more than help us.. it's lack of skill is not merely related to what the author doesn't know about geekiness, but more to what the author doesn't know about journalism. They quote Netcraft's current apache penetration figure of 70% without quoting Netcraft or anyone as the source of that figure (there is much debate as to the figure's acuracy as they count the percentage of domain names penetrated by the product, while detractors claim that apache machines run hundreds of small domains at small ISP's, skewing the figures) They glorify Sendmail, no mention of Exim, Postfix or Qmail. They glorify BIND. No mention of djb or.. Oh, I dunno, I would nearly pay for software before getting stuck with BIND :) And of course they paint the picture as though Open Source is as new as Blogs and Wikis, and that Microsoft Corp (lol) built the internet and we're the new trend that have somehow taken over more than, what, half of it? We were here first damnit. Microsoft and Co. /tried/ to take it over and we are finally gaining ground at repelling them. All in all I feel strongly strongly patronized. Brion said on 08/26/04 @ 08:26 PM: I can certainly play geek for the right price. Tell CNN to contact me. Plus I'm local (Atlanta) Brion at BG Graphics 404 - 633 - 2441 bggraphicsadv@yahoo.com Post a comment |
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