Work | Jason E. Shao

Bush, Kerry, and voting Independent?

Oct

12

2004

There’s been a lot of heated debate over dishonesty and manipulation of facts after the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates. In many ways I think the items that are attracting outrage are relatively small, and those more deserving of public scrutiny seem to be getting ignored. For instance, given the overall context of a political debate, ...

Lost in Translation

Oct

7

2004

Some jokes showed up in my email box today. While I don’t normally reward Spam, some of these were pretty good. > The American Dairy Association was so successful with its “Got Milk?” > campaign, that it was decided to extend the ads to Mexico. > Unfortunately, the Spanish translation was “Are you lactating?” > ...

Site Upgrades

Sep

28

2004

I’ve been playing with a trial “Typepad”:http://www.typepad.com subscription, and while I think I enjoy the flexibility of using “Movabletype”:http://www.movabletype.org (specifically the plugin support) too much to leave, it has inspired me to work on a bit of a redesign-from-scratch. I’m probably going to go with a layout inspired by the mixed media layouts, but sticking ...

Why I’m a Mac User

Aug

31

2004

[Richard Scoble](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/) of Microsoft asked: > “Mark: tell me what you can do on a Mac that you can’t do on a PC? > Give me, say, five examples. Here’s your chance to do some great > advertising for Apple. The kind they can’t buy.” While I don’ feel the zealous need to defend my ...

Apple offers volume discounts on iTunes songs

Aug

28

2004

Apple is offering Volume Discounts for purchases of iTunes songs. A new program allows companies and educational institutions to offer song downloads from iTunes for promotional giveaways, incentive programs, sweepstakes prizes and other valuable customer offers: ‘Through this program, Apple provides the ability to purchase a batch of individual codes, good for redemption of song ...