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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This game is strangely satisfying. I spent a couple hours playing it, and I carried out a series of experiments to see what effect my restaurant layout had on the rate of change of my thumbs-up total. Here are the results: Game: Restaurant City on Facebook Measurement: Thumbs Up Date/Time: Monday, July 20, 2009, 2:00…Continue Reading…