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Archive for March, 2007
03.31.2007 | The Mona Lisa in MS Paint!
This is so crazy! I couldn’t do this with any program, let alone MS Paint!! [via Uneasy Silence]
03.30.2007 | It’s Here!
Well I can FINALLY talk about that big announcement I mentioned a bit ago. I’ve been on pins and needles for a few weeks now and it’s finally all come together. I got a call from Yahoo! telling me that they were officially extending me an offer for an internship this summer and that they would be FedEx Overnighting the offer to me. I’m still a bit shocked that mail can make it from California to Ithaca, NY in less than 24 hours, but it’s here! FINALLY!
I just have to send the massive load of paperwork back in and things will (hopefully) be all set! I’m going to be doing UED (User Experience Design) for the Maps and Local group. I’ve never been to California before either, so I am SO excited. There are still a lot of details to be worked out, like my start date and where I’m actually going to live, but heck, I’ll sleep under the Golden Gate Bridge or something if I need to!
03.27.2007 | Where to Find Me…
When I’m not here, of course.
Just signed up for Virb. It looks pretty slick. MUCH better than MySpace. Less creepy and teeny-boppery too. I haven’t had a chance to do a lot of playing around yet - Linear Algebra HW calls, but I’m definitely going to do a lot more looking around tomorrow. I love making new friends.
I also update Twitter pretty regularly. If I disappear from here it’s probably because I have nothing significant to blog about and it can all be summed up in a quick Twit.
Feel free to add me on either of these!
03.23.2007 | Top Search Queries
I was going through some of my site stats and other than finding that the vast majority of my referrals are from spam sites (joyyy) I found a pretty interesting set of queries for my search engine referrals:
Each of them is pretty amusing in its own right, especially “bag over head” (which probably refers to a layout I had over a year ago) and “2007 disney dreamer and doer award” which I’d never heard of but I would love to get! The one I liked the best was “cadbury creme egg target market”. Poor marketers and college students working on projects do a seach and all they get is my site which gives them absolutely no information about the cadbury creme egg’s target market. It combined the fact that I had an entry about cadbury creme eggs and a facebook ad and somehow came to the conclusion that I am one of the leading authorities on cadbury creme eggs. Funny, but unfortunate for people who are looking for the real thing
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P.S. - I know, I know I should be using something better for my stats. I’m planning to get Mint at some point but I want to a) wait for Mint2 and b) make sure I’m not wasting my money on a stats program just to find out all of my referrals are spam. Ideas?
03.23.2007 | Changing The World…
I read The Radical Edge last night and apart from it being a great page-turner (you don’t really expect that from leadership/personal-development type books), there was this really amazing quote by one of the characters (who I think is based on a real person) Agnes Golden:
If you live in this world without attempting to change it, you will have sold a ruby for the price of Spam.
I love that it’s not all high-and-mighty sounding. It’s true, it’s real, it’s plain, yet it’s poetic. Great stuff. I highly recommend the book too. I haven’t read the book before it yet (The Radical Leap), but I’ll be ordering it from Amazon soon.