Author Archives: Jason

About Jason

Jason R. Koepke is Founder and Data Strategist at GNT LLC, a risk-analysis and data strategy firm that provides analytical and technical services to the public and private sectors. His work and research has been featured in the academic, financial, and technical industries.

Character Problems with Zenphoto

I am currently fiddling with an install of zenphoto, mainly to replace the incredibly slow, bloated, and annoying Gallery2 install I have for my photos (yes, my friends may stop clapping now). During the aforementioned fiddling, I received an error when trying to save Edits to a specific album. The error is this:

Error: The albums director () cannot be found.

A Google search on the matter did not help, as most people had problems with their database location. For that reason, I wanted to post for future users that my problems was a result of the “+” character in an album name. Once I removed the plus characters, everything worked fine.

If I help even one person…

Album Reviews

1—–>3—–>5
Terrible—->Fantastic

5
Booker T and MGs – Green Onions
Kills, The – Midnight Boom
Evans, Bill – Solo Sessions, The, 1963

4
Dzihan and Kamien – Fakes
Ec8or – One and Only High and Low, The
Ec8or – Spex is a Fat Bitch
Ec8or – Until Everything Explodes
Ec8or and DJ Moonraker – Ec8or and DJ Moonraker
Evans, Bill – Quiet Now
Evans, Bill – Quintessence
Evans, Bill – Since We Met
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Gnarls Barkley – Odd Ccouple, The
Jaga Jazzist – A Livingroom Hush
Jaga Jazzist – Day
Jaga Jassist – Jvla Jazzist Grete Stitz
OOIOO – Kila Kila Kila
Magnetic Fields, The – I

3
Cassettes, The – ‘Neath The Pale Moon
DeVotchKa – Curse Your Little Heart
Evans, Bill – Alone Again
Evans, Bill – At Half Moon Bay [Live]
Evans, Bill – New Jazz Conceptions
Evans, Bill – On Green Dolphin Street
Ghostland Observatory – Robotique Majestique
Little Brother – Get Back
Mylo – Destroy Rock ‘n’ Roll
OOIOO – Green And Gold
Magnetic Field, The – 69 Love Songs

2
Antipop Consortium & DJ Vadim – Isolationist, The
Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
Luaderdale, Jim – Bluegrass
Lauderdale, Jim – Bluegrass Diaries, The
Magnetic Fields, The – Distortion

1

Fast-Quick Internet Meets Slow-Conservative Buying

I am catching up on last week’s Economist and came across a small article on Blue Nile, an online middle-man for jewelry sales (mostly engagement rings). I remember when Blue Nile launched in the late 1990s for a couple reasons, including the fact that it was crazy you could buy high-end jewelry online. Yes, I will be sure to point my grandchildren to this blog post.

Anyway, here was an interesting and amusing snippet from the article:

Some 85% of purchases from Blue Nile are made by men. On average they pay $6,200 per engagement ring and take three weeks to make up their minds. Yet the majority of visitors to the Blue Nile site are women, who browse and e-mail pictures of the stone and ring they want to friends for comment, and ultimately to the target fiance-to-be.