Author: Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

Ed Coleman Leaving Gateway After Acer Acquisition

CEO (and cousin) Edward Cole­man will leave Gate­way at the end of Jan­u­ary, Acer’s Rudi Schmi­dlei­th­n­er will be tak­ing over the inte­gra­tion of Acer and Gate­way after this year’s acqui­si­tion. Well, here’s hop­ing that Edward and his fam­i­ly move back East. I sure look for­ward to talk­ing to him some­time about his expe­ri­ences there.

Nintendo Leaving Money On the Table

More than a year after the Nin­ten­do Wii hit the mar­ket (did any ever actu­al­ly ‘hit the shelves’?), there is only greater demand for the gam­ing con­sole. As with every­thing on the inter­nets, some the­o­rize this is some con­spir­a­cy or mar­ket­ing scam. Well, I’ve argued all along that it would­n’t be a very good one.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Nin­ten­do Leav­ing Mon­ey On the Table

Nintendo Trinity on the Wii

Last mon­th’s release of Super Mario Par­ty saw the com­ple­tion of the lat­est gen­er­a­tion of Nin­ten­do’s flag­ship titles for it’s newest con­sole sys­tem: the Wii. Along with the release title of The Leg­end of Zel­da: Twi­light Princess and this August’s Metroid Prime 3: Cor­rup­tion, Mario, Link, and Samus are all present on the Wii and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Nin­ten­do Trin­i­ty on the Wii

Richmond In Holiday Lights

I know that this will not be the last time I say this, but we are real­ly going to miss Rich­mond. One rea­son of many is how beau­ti­ful it looks here around the hol­i­days. All the more rea­son to vis­it often…

A New Direction For My Career

As a result of our mov­ing, I have tak­en a posi­tion of Senior Tech­ni­cal Writer with Bent­ley Sys­tems, Inc. Specif­i­cal­ly, I’ll be work­ing with soft­ware in the struc­tures group. In the past three years, Bent­ley has acquired sev­er­al big names in struc­tur­al engi­neer­ing soft­ware: REI (STAAD), RAM Inter­na­tion­al, and more recent­ly TDV GmbH (RM). I… Con­tin­ue read­ing A New Direc­tion For My Career

Freakosecurity

If you only read one inter­view with secu­ri­ty and cryp­tog­ra­phy expert Bruce Schneier today, make it this one host­ed by Freako­nom­ics co-author Stephen Dub­n­er, with ques­tions sub­mit­ted by his blog read­ers. Loads of great links to posts and arti­cles by Schneier on issues of secu­ri­ty, most of which comes down to ques­tions of eco­nom­ics (and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Freakose­cu­ri­ty

Ch-ch-changes!

First of all, let me announce what is prob­a­bly the worst kept secret since we announced we were preg­nant: Angela and I have made the deci­sion to move to Franklin, TN (that’s near Nashville for you non-Ten­­nesseans). We had been dis­cussing the idea of doing so since July. When I say dis­cussing, I mean Angela… Con­tin­ue read­ing Ch-ch-changes!

Flickr and Creative Commons

I’ve nev­er giv­en it much thought as I’ve tried to be con­sis­tent, but Flickr allows users to switch back and forth between Cre­ative Com­mons licens­es and tra­di­tion­al copy­right, despite this being in vio­la­tion of the CC license itself. Most of my work has been pub­lished under a Attri­bu­­tion- Non­com­mer­i­cal, Share-alike CC license since I first… Con­tin­ue read­ing Flickr and Cre­ative Commons

Collaboration Is Not Second Guessing

I real­ly enjoy most movies-based-on-books in which the author is involved in the film itself (“Hell­boy” and “Sin City,” for exam­ples). Of course, what hap­pens when a direc­tor or screen-writer decides to sig­nif­i­cant­ly change por­tions of the sto­ry (like in vir­tu­al­ly ever one of the “Lord of the Rings” tril­o­gy of films)? Well, I am… Con­tin­ue read­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tion Is Not Sec­ond Guessing

In A State of Vanity

When Angela and I first moved to Vir­ginia, we made the casu­al obser­va­tion that the Com­mon­wealth has a lot of van­i­ty license plates. We even told friends and fam­i­ly back home that we fig­ured Vir­ginia had many more than Ten­nessee due to the low­er cost of get­ting them here. Turns out, Vir­ginia does have more.… Con­tin­ue read­ing In A State of Vanity