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.

iPhonehacks.com Is Despicable

As an iPhone owner, I try to keep up on iPhone developments, including hacks. The good news is that there is plenty of development on opening up the device. The bad news is that one of the leading iPhone-hacks Web sites, iphonehacks.com, is 100 percent terrible.

First, their writing is abysmal. Sure, the primary (and only?) writer is not a native English speaker, but that is no excuse (don’t write in English!).

Second, they do not own an iPhone!

So how do they cover iPhone developments? Well, this is the third part: they just regurgitate what is on other sites.

Fourth, their regurgitation is really just ripping off. Rarely are any of the information sources cited and even more rare are links to the sites that provided the tip. In fact, in at least one instance, iphonehacks.com simply copied and pasted a Gizmodo post and didn’t provide a link!

I am boycotting these guys for being total journalist hacks. Ethics, boys! Ethics!

Just Turtles Site Opened

I adjusted the Just Turtles Web page so that it is not password protected and visitors have access to more-or-less finished songs. The remaining two songs, which will unlikely ever be finished, are still locked behind a password protected cage. Also, the links were updated on the Projects page.

Just Turtles was a mini-project involving me and two friends. We wrote and recorded four songs, with fifth joke-y song added later. The remaining unfinished songs are definitely our best, which is too bad because they are not finished.

The above-mentioned joke-y song is a Krauty minimalist track I whipped up with vocals taken from JB outtakes. Normally, this type of song is not noteworthy, but while catching up with the kids, I noticed that our (circa 2005) song is eerily similar to Simian Mobile Disco‘s Sleep Deprivation (from the 2007 album Attack Decay Sustain). You can download our song here and SMD’s song here.