The Geek’s Blog

At 5:19 PM yesterday, I received an email from Best Buy Reward Zone telling me that I am now a membership at their highest level, Premier Black.

Then about 10 hours later I get this email completely revoking it:

In case you can't see the picture, here's the text:
The Best Buy® Reward Zone® program is […]

As most people know by now, Google bought FeedBurner, and just recently they have started transitioning all of the feeds from the feedburner.com domain over to feedproxy.google.com… which is where the problems began.

I'm not sure why this surprised me so much…

Thankfully I still have a copy of the mail in Outlook, so I can continue working, just can't clear my inbox.
And I really should update this blog more…
 
Update: Looks like it's down for everybody… but you can still get into the basic html version, just can […]

Yesterday my first post over at Lifehacker went live, a roundup of fixes to make Windows Vista less annoying, which jumped us from our normal 70-80k pageviews per weekday…

All the way up to 113k pageviews! Unreal.

If you happened to stop by the site before reading this in your RSS reader, you've already seen the new design.
    
There's been a lot of changes already, but there are a whole lot more changes planned. My primary goal with this redesign was to unite the codebases… we're using WordPress 2.x for the […]

As many of you might already know, we migrated the site last weekend to a brand new server with much better specs:

Old Server: Dedicated Virtual from MediaTemple with 1GB RAM
New Server: Quad Core Xeon, 4GB RAM, 2×250GB HDD from The Planet

I've had good luck with MediaTemple over the last year, but a virtual server can […]

I just noticed that we finally passed the 1 million uniques in 30 days mark… we've been hovering right below the mark for a long while, but finally went above.

Growth has been pretty solid, especially considering how little I've posted in the last month.

I've never considered the idea of having dinner while floating in the sky, but it looks like somebody did… my friend Pratik sent this link over to me, where you can rent out the floating table for an event.

It looks like they have locations around the world, and if you are wondering the table […]

I'm not sure if this will stick, it could just be one of those Google ups and downs, but as of right now we're ranking #3 for the keyword "geek".

Sweet!
http://www.google.com/search?q=geek
Update
Looks like Google is having some fun… it went up to #1, then #5, then #10… who knows where it will end up. I suspect […]

I'm not entirely certain that this is going to work in WordPress MU, but you never know.

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