Stephan Miller

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I recently took the Blogrush widget off of this blog. Compared to the amount of trafffic I have been getting recently, it just wasted space, adding less than 1% to overall traffic. But TrafficJam opened and it uses Blogrush [...]

This weekend I started reading The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke again. You can find most of the contents of that book here.
Entropy Gradient Reversals - Reading the Dictionary

for the first time I saw what language was: a shared dream of the world from which its dreamers seldom ever wake, a virtually seamless emblem representing [...]

Love You Baby

I think this started with Refresh, the Georgian Hacker, but now a few other hackers are getting in on the action.
I guess this is still going on. Just to let everyone know. I had one of these guys hack one of my blogs. If you have a Wordpress forum installation, disable it, and research if [...]

Got an email from Adwords today. It seems that they just opened a beta program where advertisers can bid on specific groups of people.

Demographic bidding is a way to help your ad reach audiences of a certain age or gender. If you want your ads to be seen by women aged 18-24, or people over [...]

I couldn’t resist the "Oh, My". Sorry about that.
I want to write more reviews here. The issue right now seems to be that I’m a cheapskate. But a weird kind of cheapskate. I have spent anywhere from $2000 to $4000 a month in the last year on Adwords. I only recently started investigating ads of [...]

Usually my day to day activities give me enough material to write about, especially when I break things. There is no better fuel for writing than outright bitching or lightly veiled bitching. After all, I right about what I do and I break a lot of things jumping right in. Programming doesn’t give me much [...]

I have good intentions to post every day. The problem with that is human nature. The days that I actually go to my day job, I wake up at 4:45 am, grab everything I need for work and get to the office by 5:30. That gives me an hour and a half to do what [...]

I need to get out of this icy Midwestern weather. Perfect time to go to Jamaica, except for the whole money situation. And that is changing. Maybe next year. So far, only place out of the U.S. I’ve been is Nogales, Mexico. Don’t ask.
News from Jamaica:

International Barbadian-born superstar, Rihanna, will be the headliner for Smile [...]

I figured I would rob a few from other blogs, considering I just made a resolution to be more active in the blogosphere a few months ago. I do have a few of my own, but I figured that checking out some other blogger’s resolutions to fine tune my own. Some of mine:

Spend more time [...]