I finally have a new website to show off: Examine.com. After I came back to Toronto (wow it’s almost been 2 years … and I am moving again soon), one of the things I really focused on was my health. I spent hours every day reading up on fitness and nutrition. The amount of anecdotal [...]
So I’ve been reading about Unsubscribe, and while I use Outlook for my primary email account, my 20+ other are all in Thunderbird. They don’t support it yet, so I popped them an email asking when they were gonna support it. Within 30 seconds I had a response: “It’s on the whiteboard!!! No ETA just [...]
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I’ve been lately working on trying to generate heatmaps from an assortment of data. To say it has been tough is an understatement – I have tried Python, PHP, and Ruby libs/classes, and all have been too slow, too weak, and/or plain ugly (high peak is red, not blue nor fire-colored). In the case of [...]
The Omron Pedometer is pretty addictive. Once you start tracking how much you are walking (and especially graphing it), you really want to keep going. Alas for me, worst time possible. After blowing out my knee (13 days after I am still limping), the pedometer arrived two days later – and it has pushed me [...]
So Google now lets you control the max crawl rate through a nifty slider. While most sites start at a max-allowed rate of 0.5 pages/sec, I’ve been able to get a few sites to 10 pages/sec. I had some large sites that had pretty low max rates (eg 1 page/sec), and it took me some [...]
So in my previous post I talked about one of my favorite companies – LDC. Next up is Yipit. But this isn’t just about how awesome Yipit is. No no – today they launched profile pages, and in the process, further convoluted their home page. So this post is about how I would look over [...]
In my previous post on Yipit, I briefly mentioned how they are one of my new ‘favorites’. I thought I might as well go over some of my favorite companies. LDC is a company I ran into about a year ago, and they are doing some amazing stuff up in the UK. Eschewing the model [...]
I have a few favorite companies in the local space. UMI is one – especially after they did their new parking release. LDC is another one – fantastic work they have done in the UK. Add another one to the list – Yipit (furniture search). I have long railed that there are too many ‘me-too’ [...]