Archive for 2007

What to do when you lose your cell phone?

December 27th, 2007

So you’ve lost your cell phone again, and you didn’t have the foresight to back up all of your phone numbers. What do you do? Well if you are on facebook you may know that people have created thousands of groups requesting numbers after such an event. Now there is an application to end the […]


Amazon Filler Item Finder on TV a few more times

November 27th, 2007

I have had a web site be on TV before, but never in the USA. My site was recently on MyFox Philly briefly in a segment about Cyber Monday and saving money online. Here is a link to the page that has the article and the video clip!
Update: It was on TV again! Also […]


Wow…down for a month and didn’t even notice

October 26th, 2007

So the site has been down since the 8th due to some sort of caching problem, but the problem has now been fixed by updating to the newest version of wordpress.
I wanted to post about google’s cool spreadsheet feature, but I am out of time. Here is an example spreadsheet I made.


Facebook Apps: PHP Invite Code

August 29th, 2007

One thing I needed when making my second facebook application is a simple way for users to invite your friends. I found a few examples, but none of them were really what I was looking for. This code uses the ajax multiple friend select box(<fb:multi-friend-input>) for inviting friends instead of a long list or a […]


Why Reddit is better than Digg for normal people submitting articles

August 20th, 2007

So Henry Social Network User has written a brilliant article on his blog. The problem is that no one goes to his blog, and no one will read his article. Henry has a plan. He is a regular user of a few social networks and goes out and submits his to the two he uses […]


Things that could kill you but probably won’t

August 17th, 2007

Golden Poison Frog
“Its alkaloid poison, batrachotoxin, prevents nerves from transmitting impulses, leaving the muscles in an inactive state of contraction. This can lead to heart failure or fibrillation. It also lasts long after the frog has left the area; chickens and dogs have died from contact with a paper towel on which a frog had […]


Selling old Legos on eBay

August 13th, 2007

Updated 11/23: 20 more lego sets posted and many more to come.
So my family have about 80lbs of legos sitting around with all of the manuals so we decided to build them and sell them all on ebay. Check this post for updates. See this flickr page for pictures.
Auctions:
Lego 6769 - More Info - Comments […]


10 Things the USA does better than Australia

August 11th, 2007

I thought I would do a follow up post to 9 things Australia does better than the USA. These are a few things I noticed after spending a semester in Australia.
10. No legal Prostitution
9. We don’t have a government sponsored internet filter yet
8. Food(Vegemite, meat pies, sausage rolls, …. yum?)
7. Television(Neighbors…)
6. School uniforms are not […]


Website Updates

August 11th, 2007

I just updated and fixed a few websites. The buy.com filler item finder was not working, but not it is. The problem was that the location of the datafee changed. This was all I had to do to fix the problem:
Find export.buyservices.com/DataFeed and replace with affiliate.datafeed.buyservices.com
I also updated the ebay sort by total price so […]


Amazon.co.uk Associates Honorable Mention

August 10th, 2007

I was excited to find out that a story I submitted to the Amazon.co.uk Associate success story contest won an honorable(honourable) mention. You can read about it on their blog. My site is filleritem.com. I recieved a gift certificate for 50 pounds in my email(the contest said it was going to be 75). I […]