Archive for the 'Websites' Category

New and Old Projects

January 29th, 2009

Lets start with the old. I was really excited to have chemsink written up on haverford.edu. For those who don’t know chemsink was my senior thesis project which supplements existing chemical reactions databases in a free/open format.
The new side project is recipe puppy, a ingredient based recipe search engine. This idea has been done before, [...]


Lost Laptop

December 1st, 2008

If you find it and return it I will be eternally grateful. Lost during the trip from penn station to the ues.
Update: Laptop has been returned by a very honest cab driver. This post had nothing to do with helping me find it. Faith in humanity +100.


Reddit RSS Feeds

January 22nd, 2008

I frequently visit reddit.com and am a big fan of the site. While you can append .rss to nearly any page on reddit and get an rss feed, many of the feeds have the same order of the page itself and are not ordered by date. They do offer this feed which shows some of [...]


Some 2960 by 1050 backgrounds

January 14th, 2008

I just got a extra screen that makes my desktop this size, and there are not very many backgrounds available. Here are a few I created using the Hugin panorama generator and photos I took in australia. I would have a lot more high quality panoramas if I read this.
Here are some large panoramas as well.


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Get the Best Price on eBay

August 2nd, 2007

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 [...]