Archive for December, 2006

Google Checkout is a Collosal Piece of Shit

The first time I used Google Checkout I was astonished at how useless it was. In my opinion, they had taken something so simple, and made it more complicated, adding one more place I had to fill out all my billing/shipping information. I also was getting duplicate correspondence (one from Google, one from [...]

End of Adsense Image Trickery

Well, I guess placing images next to ads is no more. I’m not surprised by this, but it will be interesting to see where to go next.  If the argument is that “your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found [...]

Blog Tag Game Tree

I was going to do this, and I stumbled on someone else having already done it. So, heres a cool tree of participants from the recent blog tag game. Props for putting in the work. If I have some time, I’ll scrape it and do some other cool stuff.

5 Things You Don’t Know About Me And I Got Coerced Into Spilling

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wonder what server has exploded. Sometimes you wake up to discover the blog-o-sphere in a fury. This time it was the latter, and I guess we’re playing an e-mail chain style game. Kris Jones tagged me, and I gotta play. Fair enough. [...]