Educational Drop-Outs
Observations on high school drop-outs and society.
Orangebox Breaks Some Custom Maps
After Valve updated Counter-Strike Source to Orangebox, many custom maps have missing textures. Even worse, some maps now even crash CS. Here is what I did to fix de_tension.
Cultural Cataracts
A personal conversation about the challenges facing educational and cultural progress in the face of overwhelming ignorance and myopia.
Ohio 2006 Campaign Websites: Blackwell vs. Strickland
How do the candidate for Ohio Governor use thier websites? Facts, fiction, and mud.
Observation on Trust in Society
Essay about trust in personal lives, culture and global civilization.
The Happy Worker
An essay on the coomon person's role in the workforce.
Scams to make you feel cool
Scams I almost fell for... Poetry.com and Manchester Who's Who
Going bald like a man
An amusing editorial by Shawn Olson, originally published as a Chalkboard column in the Messenger.
Donald George Olson died at 72
Some memories and thoughts about my Dad
My Dad, Donald George Olson, died on March 18, 2013... just four days shy of his 73rd birthday.
MP4 files in Flex VideoDisplay
Here is a solution to your problem if you are building an application in Flex 3 that uses the VideoDisplay component and the results fail to work in Internet Explorer and Chrome but mysteriously work in Firefox.
