Most supermarkets have “savings cards” which they offer to customers to get discounts on certain items. I hate these cards because these cards dont really save me money, needlessly invade my privacy, and take up space in my wallet. However, if you don’t use these cards you are overpaying for your groceries. My [...]

Netflix is running a contest to improve there movie suggestions.  The prize: one million dollars.  The suggestions only have to improve by 10% to recieve the prize.
I think I will see how well I can do.  I think predicting all 4’s will work.
There current system uses “Straightforward statistical linear models with a lot of data [...]

I have a website that finds filler items for a few online stores that offer free shipping. The amazon.com version is the only one that generates consistant traffic. A few days ago the buy.com version of the site recieved its first sale. The surprise is that the sale was for $799.99 which gets [...]

I just finished importing all my entries from my simple homebrew blog into wordpress. This should make everything a lot easier. I also installed a crossposting plugin, so this should show up on livejournal too.  I haven’t migrated everything over to wordpress yet, so it isn’t quite ready…but it wil be soon!

I am using a new music player, and in the preferences there was an option to enable audioscrobbler. I had no clue what audioscrobbler was, so I went to last.fm and found out it was a sort of social music recommendation website. Great, I have found another addiction. [...]

I recently installed Ubuntu Linux and I don’t think I am ever going back. It is much faster than Windows for me, and starting up is much less of a pain. I have all the software than I need, and I got it all for free. The ease of installing and upgrading software is so [...]

I am addicted to many things on the Internet. I visit these site multiple times a day. Here is the list:
1. youtube.com 2. answers.yahoo.com [...]

I watched Donnie Brasco yesterday and I still can’t get over the scene where the Japanese man at the resteraunt was beaten to a bloody pulp. I tried to find the video on YouTube/Google Video, but no luck.
In other [...]

Ever wonder when cops give out the most speeding tickets. I did a little bit of analysis on traffic data in Virginia and posted my results.
Speeding Ticket Analysis [...]

I was searching on Google today to make sure a submission to one of my website’s was unique, and I was surprised to find that Google suggested that I should be searching for he instead of she.
Here is a [...]