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Mac vs. PC: Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7

There’s lots of talk comparing Snow Leopard to Windows 7, but all I’ve seen so far is heavily biased toward the Mac side. I’m a Mac user myself, but this still strikes me as being quite unfair. So I’ll point out here the things that important details that others are omitting. Some people don’t like…Continue Reading…

Chase your dreams and join a startup

From one of my favorite blogs, The Simple Dollar: My work career taught me that stability isn’t everything. If you’re in a stable career, you’re often surrounded by complacent people, which makes it difficult to get things done and exciting projects are hard to come by. … My life experience has created my perspective on…Continue Reading…

LinkShare iTunes SKU

I’ve been using LinkShare to track the performance of traffic that I send to iTunes — particularly, the iTunes App Store. Mostly, I’ve been promoting my own apps. I’ve noticed a variety of SKU#’s in my LinkShare reports, so I decided to look up what they mean. So here’s what I found: This is what…Continue Reading…

Why does Google FeedBurner use FeedBlitz?

I’ve been doing some long-overdue routine maintenance of my blog. I noticed that I had an email subscription box on the right sidebar. I assumed it was working, but when I tried it with a test email address – it wasn’t! I hate when things don’t work. Especially something as important as an email subscription…Continue Reading…

My USC Fall 2009 Schedule

As you probably know, I “graduated” from USC last May. Technically, I still have 4 classes to take before I actually get my degree, a B.S. in Computer Engineering & Computer Science. I’m not sure that I want to really finish, because I don’t think school would be the best thing for me to do…Continue Reading…

URL Rewriting with Lighttpd

A plea for help: http://www.adventuresinparenting.org/favicon.ico shows WordPress’s custom 404 page, but I actually want it to get the (currently blank) favicon.ico file that I’ve placed in that directory. I’m using custom URL rewriting with lighttpd (not mod_rewrite). Here’s my lighttpd.conf: ### Generated by Dreamhost ### WordPress: http://www.adventuresinparenting.org url.rewrite += ( “^/(wp-.+).*/?” => “$0”, “^/(blog).*/?” =>…Continue Reading…