GoDaddy: I’ll be easier on you from now on

I always recommend people stay away from GoDaddy when they’re looking for shared hosting. It’s not their primary business and they have way too many customers. The result is packed, locked down servers missing key features, and poor support from inexperienced technicians.
But at least they didn’t bungle up the VPS product like 1&1 did.
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They want to buy — I better start selling

I’ve had a number of people come to me looking for a W3Counter plan that can handle more than the “Pro” plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided [...]

W3Counter pWidget Rev 2

I just wrapped up testing the second revision W3Counter pWidget, the overlay that brings web stats right to your webpage, including W3Counter’s color-coded click overlay. It puts no extra burden on the webpage except a simple key listener until it’s activated by the user, loads data modularly on demand, and is completely cross-browser [...]

A Vision of Students Today

I would’ve enjoyed that class — those students have a great professor.

Spooky visitor labeling

Hi Sara, Brian and Zach.

This “visitor labeling” feature I’ve been working on is kinda spooky, isn’t it?

Do you know Dan Grossman?

I just updated this blog’s “About” and “Projects” pages. No more boring personal history, a few updates, and the “projects” page is no longer virtually empty. It’s now a list of what I’m currently working on, or will be in the near future. The blog’s due for a major redesign in November as its [...]

Bringing the web stats to your site

I’m still working on the widgets for W3Counter. I’ve have too many other things that need attention recently to bring anything to finished form, but at least I have 6 of the 8 planned widgets working and in testing. You’ve already seen pWidget, the page stats overlay. Here are a couple more:

Why isn’t my Firefox 3D like the Japanese version?

And why don’t our TV show hosts wear fox ears when covering the browser?

Ouch, credit card fraud bites hard as ever

$3,000 disappeared because I didn’t notice the pattern for 4 days. Some fraudster attempted to place orders using 69 different credit cards before I closed all the accounts and refunded all the charges. Looks like this person had a large list of credit cards about to expire he was running through, since a few [...]

Google can’t buy enough brain power to ignore text ads

The SEO community’s buzzing over official word from Google that selling text links can hurt your PR and rankings. It’s truly sad that $600-a-share Google is willing to ruin its own search results because they can’t figure out how to differentiate paid ads from useful links. They’re not always different things, either, one of [...]