Lesson Learned on Racial Sensitivity

January 15, 2010

Our hangman app graphics contained a gray stick figure, in a pink dress and a straw hat to make the image more fun, silly, and comical rather than serious. With every missed letter, the stick figure became more silly.  However, several people reported being offended at the depiction of a black man (half said man, [...]

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Blue button images for iPhone apps

January 14, 2010

The iPhone SDK makes it easy to add a bright blue button on the navigation bar.  It is the color that means press this when you’re done doing what you’re doing. However, if you want to add a button with the same meaning somewhere else, its a lot of work.  There is a blue button [...]

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The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

January 12, 2010

One of the fallacies we have adopted in our society is that some producsts/services are so special or some particular situations are so special that we should abandon free market principles and let government take over.  We’re being suckers when we do this for several reasons.  First, almost never is a product/service really that special.  [...]

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Custom Hangman Available on App Store

January 11, 2010

If you’ve got 99 cents  and an iPhone or iPod Touch you can now purchase Custom Hangman, the best game of Hangman on the app store, in my arrogant and biased opinion.  But seriously, if other versions of this game were boring (including the pencil and paper version) it was because you didn’t play with [...]

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Recent updates, traffic up 121%

January 11, 2010

This blog has been in the “getting established” phase for years.  I had been dabbling at it before, but since I left my last full time job at Hostopia, I’ve gotten more serious about this blog and I’m seeing the results:

Visitors per month are up 121% in the last month.  (Went from double digit to [...]

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Domainers, meet Affiliate Marketers

January 9, 2010

I find it fascinating that domain investors circle in their conferences and online forums while affiliate marketers circle in their own conferences and forums.  Both groups are  essentially micro-industries doing almost the same thing – building and monetizing targeted traffic to independent websites.  I highly recommend to both groups: attend a conference in the other [...]

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Birth of Afternic 2G was NameBuySell.com

January 7, 2010

Most people who know me (most of my friends on Facebook, for example) know me from my days at Afternic.com.  I was President, then GM, of Afternic.com from 2002-2007.  My brother and I purchased Afternic.com for a little over $100,000 in December of 2002, worked on it for about 5 years, and sold it to [...]

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The Ultimate Cause

January 5, 2010

This is why I call educating the masses about economics (more specifically, free market economics and public choice theory) the Ultimate Cause. Dramatically more resources would be available to all other causes if we understood the fundamentals of these subjects – the power of the free market’s Invisible Hand, for example.

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iPhone app approved

January 4, 2010

Apple just approved our iPhone app.  I’ll post more about it very soon.

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strtotime warning from Wordpress/PHP

December 26, 2009

If you try to install Wordpress with the PHP and MySQL procedures I recently posted you’ll get the following warning all over your Wordpress pages.
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used [...]

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