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28 November 2011 1 Comment

Hands on with Nest

I received my Nest thermostat and barely had my jacket off before I was installing it. The product is VERY Apple. When I lifted the top of the box, I predicted that the Nest would be facing up with nothing covering it…sure enough I was right, just like an iPhone. The quick-start installation guide was [...]

7 December 2010 Comments Off

Lifting a Million Pounds in One Month

I posted this over here.

10 May 2010 Comments Off

Fix for QuickTime Player YouTube service temporarily unavailable

A few weeks ago I tried to export a video from QuickTime Player to Youtube and I got this message: Sign in failed because YouTube service for the account “ddn3d” is temporarily unavailable. I figured YouTube had a temporary outage and I moved on. Today I tried to export the same video and got the [...]

1 April 2010 2 Comments

To: Field Email Address Harvester

Have you ever had an email come in with ALL of the recipients in the To: or Cc: field and thought “This sure would be a handy list to mail asomething to.”? Well, I have. Of course I would never email those people since they didn’t double opt-in. Here is a very simple tool to [...]

21 March 2010 Comments Off

What will it take to cure “incurable” diseases?

Scientists in lab coats? Billions in government grants? Stem cells? Or just one guy armed with the knowledge that you can change your own body and the will to cure Tourettes.

3 March 2010 2 Comments

Split Testing with a Genetic Algorithm

I’ve got some interesting data following the ShoeMoney System launch that I want to share. This time around I used genetify to do multi-variate testing with an optimizng algorithm.  Let me show you why this is important. Let’s say we got 50,000 unique visitors to our landing page. 3.0% conversion rate 5.0% conversion rate So [...]

6 January 2010 2 Comments

Solution for Yammer AIR “Searching for service..”

This works on Mac OS X for sure, but I suspect if you can find the right files on Windows it’s the same fix. 1. Quit Yammer. 2. Open Terminal 3. type: rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS 4. type: rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Yammer* 5. Relaunch ze Yammer.

22 September 2009 1 Comment

Purpose Inc & DK’s ThinkTank

I was going to write a bit longer post, but in lieu of that I’m going to write a short but timely post. Last week I was in beautiful Del Mar, CA for ThinkTank and I’m happy to report that it was a fantastic event. I’ll admit I was a little skeptical at first knowing [...]

14 July 2009 1 Comment

Why You Should (And Should Not) Go to Elite Retreat

You should go to Elite Retreat if you already have a business, with a working model, that has real revenue. You should not go to Elite Retreat if you have “ideas” that you haven’t started on because you think you need one or more things before you get going. You should go to Elite Retreat [...]

4 June 2009 1 Comment

Stillwater Bed & Breakfast – Elephant Walk B&B

Last night Sheena and I stayed at the Elephant Walk B&B in Stillwater, MN. I’m not a hotel reviewer so I’ll keep it short and sweet. I highly, highly, recommend this B&B to anyone, especially people in Minneapolis or St. Paul who need to get away from noise for a little while. Stillwater is only [...]