Month: June 2007

  • The mental game.

    I noticed a quote from Bobby Knight. Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win. I thought it was a cool quote, but then I played tennis last night. It was some of the best tennis I have ever played. It was with my new Wilson 6.1 Team…

  • A/B Testing and HiPO

    A news article on Ajaxian led me to this post about this article (PDF) from Microsoft. It talks about A/B testing and how important it is to success on the web. The article even cites the legendary Avinash Kaushik whom I had the pleasure of working with at Intuit. The best line in the article…

  • Special Characters

    I use special characters in HTML all the time.  Cutting and pasting from MS Word is especially problematic because many systems choke on their characters.  I usually use the html special characters and just look it up on sites like this.  However, I recently saw this site called HTML Entity Character Lookup. This site is…

  • Refer-a-friend

    So I have been up and running with Lunarpages.com for a few weeks now.  So far, so good.  Actually, that isn’t 100% true.  My site seems fine, but the Marketo site has had issues.  It has gone down for 5-20 minutes several times during the last few weeks.  When it’s up, it’s fast, but these…

  • YouTube – Dynamite Hack Video

    Surprisingly, I get alot of traffic from Google for my post about Dynamite Hack’s Boy’s in da hood. The video is even better than the lyrics, if that is possible. Thank YouTube for the video. Man, YouTube kicks ass. Ethan was singing Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name, because he heard Blake Lewis…

  • Plugins

    Way back in 1995, I used to keep a list of all of the Netscape Plugins. Back then, there were so few, that it was easy. We eventually got an intern, Puck. What ever happened to Puck? Wow, Puck was a trip. Anyway, it eventually got out of hand and we gave up. Now my…