I liked this ad, which showed the garment being zipped up, with the underlying weather site still showing, and the "internal temperature" indicator increased as the zipper went up.


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OK, so it's an older (2008) ad. I just saw it.

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Two quick bits before my main post:

My daughter posted to her Facebook Monday evening: "Update: there has been an explosion. Cause thus far unknown. But I'm having trouble studying when MY SCHOOL IS BLOWING UP." (We were at this very point on campus a year and a half ago.) There's strong speculation that the power outage and subsequent ammonia ( Read more... )

I'd been lying in bed for over an hour, trying to fall asleep, and I had a minor epiphany. Obviously I've been taking great care over recent months in laying the basic foundation for AboutTh.is, because I'm well aware that decisions made now will have long-term consequences, good or bad, for years to come. (Plus I am so bloody tired of utter cr*p ( Read more... )

As usual, I'm learning from my outsourcing effort, and I came to the realization that we need to replace the INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE code with the more appropriate INSERT ... WHERE NOT EXISTS code instead.

Also, I realized today that, in an effort to streamline the process of joining and then using AboutTh.is, Members don't ( Read more... )

I finished changing the first Accountify file from PEAR::DB to PDO, but haven't started testing it yet, (other than to see that it crashes; heh). It's a start.

I also paid for my first year's subscription to Pandora One. Even though the ads aren't that intrusive, I kinda hit my limit tonight.

In case you happened to have missed the original ad:

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And here's the response:

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Source: new Cheerios commercial, which in turn was promoted by my daughter.

I tied together all the various data for Bing Ads and Prosper202, and launched my first PPC ad; presumably it should go live soon ( Read more... )

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Source: What better way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insulting its target audience?