Founder of Awio Web Services LLC,
graduate student at Drexel U.,
community advisor at SitePoint.
I won at Jackpot Rewards
$10 in this week’s guaranteed winners drawing at Jackpot Rewards, the online lottery site I wrote about a few months ago. I’m still gaining entries into the weekly drawings for hundreds of prizes, including a $145 million jackpot, with the help of the network of friends that joined through my referral link.
If a $3 [...]
WPRS Multi-Site Licenses, Non-PayPal Payments
WP Review Site continues to sell well, enough that I spent the time to give it a proper payment form instead of just a PayPal redirect. Those that can’t or choose not to use PayPal can now pay directly by credit card. By several requests, WPRS is now available in a multi-site license ($199) and [...]
Product in a Day: FeedLines
This is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem simple [...]
Jackpot Rewards Pays
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had joined Jackpot Rewards, the online lottery and cash-back shopping site with a weekly $1 million sweepstakes. It’s still the best odds anywhere for winning a million dollars, and you get extra tickets when any of your friends have two matching numbers in the jackpot drawing that [...]
Picking a Graduate Program
As of this week, I’ve been accepted to masters programs to study computer science at University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Lehigh University and Drexel University. Now I have to decide where I want to go.
$1 Million Weekly Lottery
A new company backed by investors Peter Lynch, Chuck Clough (the former chief global investment strategist of Merrill Lynch) and other big names from the Boston area offers a $1 million weekly lottery with a guaranteed winner. The site claims the best odds ever of winning a million dollars, and also runs a drawing for [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Forget iTunes, forget cable, I went with Netflix
Last time I subscribed to cable TV service, the bill for basic service and cable internet was nearly $100 per month. Even with the short-term bundle pricing, all the taxes and fees the cable companies tack on make it an expensive service. I decided it’s not worth it. I don’t subscribe to cable TV. But [...]
Recommended Designers or Holding a Contest?
I need a new website for W3Counter, and I can’t design it. I need to reorganize the site and there are going to be lots of new service plans and features to show off.
I’m thinking of holding a contest at SitePoint, but I don’t know if I’ll get good results from this. I’m not [...]
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