Posted: July 13th, 2010 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | View Comments
The free Amazon Prime deal for students is better than it sounds.
I’ve been a paid Prime subscriber for the past two years and I felt cheated when I heard about this offer. On a whim, I signed up for the offer anyway and was pleasantly surprised.
Once you signup for the offer, your existing paid subscription is cancelled, you get a refund for any unused months, and you get the free subscription starting today.
Usually, I assume that companies are trying to screw me at every corner. This was really a surprise.
Hello from Amazon.com.
Your Amazon Prime membership has been canceled, per your request.
Since you received benefits on a small number of items, you will be issued a refund of $52.93 for the remaining months of your membership. If your membership charge has been completed, your refund should be processed within the next 2-3 business days and will appear as a credit on your next credit card billing statement.
You are welcome to come back any time and sign up for Prime again. Please know that we value your business, and we hope to see you again soon at Amazon.com.
To signup visit: http://www.amazon.com/prime
Best regards,
Amazon.com Customer Service
http://www.amazon.com
Posted: May 31st, 2010 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | View Comments
And it’s been a great journey. It started out as a curiosity and then became part of my life, and I think I’m better for it.
Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | View Comments
MIDTERMS! – Posts will be trickling onto the site at a snail’s pace during the next two weeks. I’ll be back in full force when spring break starts on March 5.
Posted: January 27th, 2010 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | View Comments
Grooveshark was doing maintenance yesterday evening and it seems like the widgets (right sidebar) are still affected. Hope the problem clears up soon.
EDIT (4:04PM): And back!
Posted: January 6th, 2010 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | Tags: Ads, Mobile | View Comments
I noticed Nexus ads all over my Google reader today and also this site too! Kind of exciting…
Nexus
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | Tags: seo, web analytics, web presence | View Comments
I’m going to move this blog back to WordPress. This decision is the result of a few things:
- I’m working on building a long-term web presence and want ultimate flexibility.
- Posterous has very limited options to monetize this blog. Right now my Adsense account is only linked to feedburner and among my initial readership (friends and family), few are subscribers because few know what RSS is.
- Having a more robust monetization effort will allow me to learn more about web analytics and will encourage me to drive more traffic.
- WordPress gives me more license to also optimize my blog for SEO, especially once I launch on my own hosted domain.
- I’ll have the chance to tweak and maybe create my own WordPress theme, which will give me experience with languages such as HTML and CSS.
- I’ve been working on building a blogging tool that is similar to Skribit, and am trying to implement it in simple form as a Widget. Wordpress will give me the largest userbase to allow for testing and analytics for the new app. This will also be a great excuse to learn PHP on my own.
- This will keep me busy for quite some time! Especially if boredom hits (inevitably) over winter break!
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Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: Gordon | Filed under: uncategorized | View Comments
The last month has been incredibly hectic and the next few days will be even more busy as final exams and projects close out the semester. Look for a more consistent content stream shortly after my last final on December 22nd.
See you then!
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