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Commission Junction Advertising Failure

As you can see, my little advertising experiment with Commission Junction is pretty failtastic.

Which is strange, because the ads are fairly targeted based on a few specific, popular pages of mine. I’m not a big fan of advertising to tell you the truth — I ripped Google Adsense off here a [...]

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Busted

So I’m currently at my mom’s place looking at her new computer. While checking out her new monitor, she spilled the goods:
Mom: “Hey, you know that blog entry about people getting to your blog by googling duanestorey.com”
Me: “Yah”
Mom: “Don’t tell anyone, but it was us.. That’s what we do”
So there you have it. [...]

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Digg Categories In Need Of A Serious Overhaul

I love Digg. I surf it at least a couple times a day, usually when I’m bored, sitting a work waiting for something to compile. I would say that without a doubt the majority of my “cool” news actually comes from Digg.
Lately I’ve begun submitting the odd story on [...]

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Website Data Analysis Starting

Big thanks to all of you who pinged me about helping with my little web experiment. So far we have six hosts represented, but I’d love to have a lot more. So if you have any friends that have blogs and can help out, please direct them to me. I’m collecting [...]

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Web Hosting Experiment

Hey guys. I want to do a fairly simple web experiment this week. I want to try to assess real-world uptime and latency for a bunch of popular hosting sites. I need a bunch of volunteers to help out. Basically all I’ll need you to do is upload a [...]

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Wordpress Media Burner Plugin

Tonight I had a few people over at my place to watch movies, drink some beer, and hack out a few techy type things. My little project for the evening was to try and media-ify my blog somehow. One of the ideas I was playing with was extracting all the media out of [...]

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Duanelander

Duanelander, photo by Duane StoreyAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License

Yes, this is what I look like before I cut off your head and steal all your powers, bitches.
Big thanks to Clay for misusing all our web design resources at work to make this possible. Apparently he thought the whole Star Wars thing was too retro, and came [...]

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Microsoft Extends 44 Billion Dollar Offer For Yahoo!

Wow, what can I say. That is a pretty impressive sum of money. I read this before going to bed last night on Digg, but I thought it was fake. Turns out that Microsoft has just extended a 44 billion dollar offer for Yahoo!
To be honest, Google has really handed Yahoo! [...]