Jason Ellis
RandomStringOfWords.com
a space for sharing ideas, reflections, and the occasional strong opinion. If you're here, you're probably curious about something I've built, said, or am working on. Either way, I'm glad you found your way here.
Most Recent Blog Posts
Warhammer and Warhammer Online
I play Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy table top games. I also used to play the Warhammer fantasy role playing game when I was in...
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is LEGEN-DARY! (er.. sorry.. wrong show).. Joss Whedon put together this little internet mini-series during the writers strike and its really...
City of Heroes and Ubuntu
I have been playing the hell out of City of Heroes over the last month or two. I have enjoyed it but will be happy...
IBM and Agile Programming
So I have been pretty busy of late. Work has been on endless "crunch" period which promises to continue in this vein for the time...
I can play the radio...
... and that's about it. When I was in middle and high school I was in band and played everything from the trombone to the...
Web based games
So I find I have been playing quite a few web based games of late. And just about all of them has brought to the...
Javascript Obfuscation
Code obfuscators will strip out the unnecessary characters like white space, tabs, newlines and comments.. but that's not all.
Which format to use; Gif, Jpeg, Png
I was asked today what my professional opinion was with regards to which graphical format to use in web design. I pondered it a bit...
OH dear god.. EW!
I go on a lot of walks here in my neighborhood in order to unwind for the day. I also like to delude myself and...
Spore Porn *sigh*
Spore is a multi-genre massively single-player online game designed by Will Wright and has drawn quite a lot of attention due to its massive scope...
Super Heroes is st00pid
City of Heroes (and thus City of Villains) is one of those sleeper games that has a lot of hidden depth. I played CoH for...
Age of Conan is beginning to annoy me
I'm starting to get upset / annoyed with Age of Conan. Probably it's more fair to say, disappointed -- but you can only scream at...