Which do you think is better: a wide skyscraper with blue links and no border, or one with red links and a gray border? My testing shows that the blue links and no border outperform the other by 73%. Did you get it right? Here’s another one to test your optimization abilities. Which performs better…Continue Reading…
Today I received a “cash back” rebate check from online deal site FatWallet. I’m really impressed by them. I’ve been a user since August 2003, which is over 4 years ago now, and I have no complaints. They do exactly what they claim, and it works like a charm. Even their envelopes are cool. Here’s…Continue Reading…
I’m hanging out at my grandpa’s place today, and I had an intriguing conversation with him this morning that I want to remember. My grandpa, who goes by Frank, grew up in World War II, and worked for the U.S. Army when he was 22, and the Japanese were invading Hong Kong. It seems to…Continue Reading…
Here’s a neat blog I found today called Financial Hack. I read his very interesting post called Screw Black Friday, in which I learned that Black Friday is actually not the biggest shopping day of the year. I tend to agree with that post. I wanted to go shopping on Black Friday just for the…Continue Reading…
Give one. Get one. That’s the proposition of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, whose mission it is to provide laptops to children in developing countries. The idea is to empower these schoolchildren by allowing them access to the kind of technology that has made the U.S. and other technology-centric nations so prosperous. It’ll…Continue Reading…
I’ve just started a new blog which is all about my attempts to make money online. If this sounds interesting to you, take a look at TrackForward.com, and sign up for the email updates (enter your name and email on the right side, where it says “Get new posts by email“). Please stop by and…Continue Reading…