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PayPal's insidious inverted unsubscribe page 24 May 2013 | 11:29 pm
This morning, I clicked the unsubscribe link from a PayPal marketing email and was taken to: Notice anything special? While these forms usually tell you to uncheck the box if you no longer wish to re...
AdWords Energize Consultation Notes 22 Apr 2013 | 03:35 am
Recently, after receiving a few emails from the Google AdWords team about their free “Energize” consultation, I decided to set up a session. I’d done about a 10 minute job of tuning AdWords when I set...
Creating a code_swarm for your git repository code_swarm... 16 Feb 2013 | 04:33 am
Creating a code_swarm for your git repository code_swarm (http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/) is ‘.. organic software visualization of project repositories.’ Basically, it builds a timelapse sort of...
Getting traffic for your newly launched startup 14 Jan 2013 | 09:12 pm
The weekend before New Years, my girlfriend and I were talking about her trouble renting a sewing machine in San Francisco. She had found a site that did general “rent anything”, but decided against i...
Timelapse photography with Ubuntu, re-visited (above shot with... 5 Jan 2013 | 04:34 am
Timelapse photography with Ubuntu, re-visited (above shot with a Canon 60D and a Bower 8mm fisheye) Recently, I decided that the view from work was too good to NOT take timelapses of. Years ago, I w...
Announcing the Derewecki Science Grant 26 Nov 2012 | 08:40 am
I’m proud to announce that the Derewecki Science Grant will be offered for Coshocton, Ridgewood, and Riverview High Schools. It will go to at most one student per year and will be a one time, $1000 pa...
2013 Derewecki Science Grant Application * A copy of a tuition... 26 Nov 2012 | 08:25 am
2013 Derewecki Science Grant Application * A copy of a tuition statement from the college must be submitted to the Coshocton Foundation before payment of scholarship award will be made.
Even faster: loading half a billion rows in MySQL revisited 21 Aug 2012 | 04:23 pm
A few months ago, I wrote a post on loading 500 million rows into a single innoDB table from flatfiles. This was in the effort to un-‘optimize’ a premature optimization in our codebase: user action c...
Using Asana to search for a new apartment 30 Jul 2012 | 08:26 pm
Recently, Padmapper lost it’s Craigslist dataset. Even more recently, it got them back — but I decided to start looking for a new apartment, found one, and moved in before realizing that. At first it ...
DIY: Swinging urban bike rack 30 Jul 2012 | 07:13 am
I recently moved into a smaller apartment that doesn’t have a closet/porch where I can put my bicycle. There are a lot of really cool urban bike storage solutions, such as bike hoists ( Racor Pro Ceil...
