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Archive for December, 2008

Why aren’t iTunes Gift Cards Accepted in Apple Stores and Vice Versa?

My lit­tle sis­ter received a few iTunes gift cards this Christ­mas and asked me if she could use them to buy a case for her new iPod. I was cau­tious to assure her because I had never explic­itly heard of such a thing. I came home and explic­itly read the exact oppo­site thing: What can […]

Improving Gift Cards By Admitting They’re Gift Codes

Another glo­ri­ous Christ­mas has come and past, and once again my wal­let is stuffed to the brim with gift cards!   As my butt became extra sore on the car ride home today from Cleve­land, it dawned on me that I shouldn’t have to carry so many gift cards or any at all!

One Month With #Magpie

About a month ago I signed up to be a twit­terer for Mag­pie, an ad net­work for Twit­ter. Basi­cally, they match key­words you tweet about with ads much like Google’s AdWords. They orig­i­nally pro­jected that I could make about 40€ per month if I agreed to let them insert ads into my tweet feed. Not […]

Building a $100 1TB External Hard Drive

In May of 2007, I bought a 1TB exter­nal hard drive that con­sisted of 4 250GB hard dri­ves that worked together for over $366. It was awe­some and still works great. Last week I bought a Hitachi 1TB SATA hard drive for $79.99 after rebate (it’s in the mail) and a SATA to eSATA & USB 2.0 External […]

All I Want For Christmas… Are My Grades

Maybe it’s the seniori­tis. Maybe tak­ing that teach­ing class has made me cyn­i­cal and arro­gant about how my other classes are run. Maybe I’m always try­ing to find a bet­ter way to do things. What­ever it may be, some­thing has to be changed in how grades are kept track of at IU. I’m tak­ing seven (yes […]