The other day I was trying to buy a usb cable for my new lg env phone. After going to the verizon store and realizing they wanted to charge me $30 I got on ebay. A quick search yielded some good deals, but I wanted the best deal. The problem was that the sellers shipping […]
After spending six months in Australia these are some things I noticed that Australia does that I wish the USA did
9. All alcoholic beverages at the bottle shop(liquor store) are labeled with how many standard drinks it contains
8. You do not need to pay 40k a year to go to the best University in Australia
7. […]
I had some downtime and I decided to head over to my local Apple Store in Ardmore, PA. They had about a dozen Iphones sitting out for anyone to play with. The Iphone did not disappoint, but I would not buy it for any more than $200. The interesting part of the experience was that […]
So my sister is back from school and looking to make some money. Luckily she knows how to make fabric belts and she has a brother(me) that knows how to make websites. So head over to DesignYourBelt.com to have my sister make you a unique custom fabric belt.
Two days ago Google released a new feature in their webmaster tools which display who is linking to your website. It was interesting to see that two of my posts which were recently on digg.com had several times more backlinks than my home page.
Home Page - 0 diggs - 531 backlinks
Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments […]
Myspace users are mostly young, but there are fairly large communities of 69 year olds and 100+ year olds:
How many friends do myspace users have, you ask? The younger they are the more friends the have(they then lose those friends over time):
What sign are myspace users?
Who knew Leo’s had such a hard time making […]
I did some analysis of Google’s search results based only on the way Google display’s its results. The analysis is based on the first ~800 well formed unique searchs in search data that AOL released(here is a list I made of the first 5000 well formed queries). I initially was going to do this analysis […]
I think google just gave some pretty strange advice in their recent blog post.
”If you don’t want to see personalized results, just sign out of your Google Account.”
Last time I checked you could turn that feature off without signing out of your account. That would be a pretty annoying way of turning a feature off.
Kevin Rose digg’s your site, it will make it to the front page of digg if it is not there already. Unfortunately, the effect of being on Kevin Rose’s dugg page is lost in the massive amount of traffic you recieve from the digg front page. Luckily I had the unique experience of having Kevin […]
I found some interesting analysis of the netflix prize dataset, but it was not exactly what I was looking for. I downloaded the dataset, and decided to do some analysis myself. I went with what I though was the easy route by installing pyflix, which in hindsight might not have been the fastest approach(pyflix took […]