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My current role at Google requires me to go through and look at a lot of various AdWords advertisements throughout the day. Some of which are standard goods and services, others are porn, and some are crazy home-based marketing programs. Every once in a while, though, you come across a gem like Fun Jell, the [...]

From an Internal office email: Today Bristol - Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS everytime someone goes to their website and moves the match to the candle and lights it. Please forward this link on: https://www.lighttounite.org Remember, December 1st is World AIDS day.

We’re all well aware of Michael Richard’s comments that were made last week, but someone had enough time to piece together this great “Lost Episode” of Seinfeld with old episode footage and footage from his outburst. It’s highly entertaining for all Seinfeld fans.

The shopping season has begun. Black Friday was just a few days ago, and today we’re in the midst of what is known as Cyber Monday. Though I dislike the term, nobody really asked me. One item I wanted to point out is that any site using Google Checkout is offering a $10 discount on [...]

Our First ThanksgivingOriginally uploaded by brandonjs. After our recent relocation to the West Coast, MP and I had decided not to take the trip back East for the Thanksgiving holiday. As a result, we opted to have our own Thanksgiving (just the two of us) here in Santa Clara. Last Sunday we did all [...]

I recently needed to tackle the problem of detecting pop-up blockers for my job. While I found some useful information through Google search, many of the code examples did not work in all scenarios and were focused on opening an arbitrary window just to close it to then see if the pop up window was [...]

Sometime over this past weekend, I stumbled upon a pretty cool little application that allows you to write blog posts offline. I’ve found a number of these products ands services over the years, but Ecto best - hands down. The application is fully-customizable, allowing you to update any number of blogging systems including Wordpress, Movable [...]