Posts made in February 2008

Applications In

Apparently the people I asked for letters of recommendation are worse procrastinators than me. I gave them all at least a month’s advance notice, and two reminders, and got them all back exactly two days before the March 1st application deadline for some of the graduate schools I’m applying to. 26 envelopes, $8.49 in postage, [...]


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AJAX Live-Updating Google Map

A new report I’m considering adding to W3Counter is a “Live Map” — a Google map that shows visitors arriving to your website in real-time. It updates every 3 seconds with an AJAX call, instantly recenting the map on each new visitor and popping up their information. I’ve had fun staring at it for half [...]


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Results: PayPal as a primary payment provider

It’s now been just over 6 months since I made PayPal the primary payment method on my ecommerce sites in an effort to reduce losses to fraud (see Will 53% of customers switch to PayPal and Betting on Igor). It takes a long time to see the effects of something like this, since chargebacks tend [...]


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GRE

I took the GRE today. 610 verbal, 770 quantitative (math). Good enough. Now I need to actually fill out the grad school applications.


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