Ron | January 20, 2010
I love Yelp, but I also love credibility and honesty. Apparently, Yelp’s been accused of massaging scores if businesses hand over some advertising dough. There was always that minor suspicion but this article details it fully: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-extortion-allegations-stack-up/Content?oid=1176984
The story, which was picked up by national news outlets including The New York Times and The [...]
admin | January 18, 2010
This is why people bag on Microsoft.
SQL Server Management Studio 2005 forgets password
As does the 2008 version. I ran into this issue, and was (not) surprised to find the bug dating back to version 2005 and still not be fixed. Hey, at least you can delete some files to fix it though.
On another note, it’s [...]
Ron | December 5, 2009
Interesting. My friend pointed out that Google’s directions to an address we were heading to was completely wrong. Apparently Google dumped Nav Teq in ‘08 for Tele Atlas, and recently it dumped Tele Atlas in favor of its own collected data. Ambitious, but now Maps doesn’t seem to be very accurate anymore. These directions are [...]
Ron | August 17, 2009
Someone managed to exploit a flaw in the way I calculate high scores for my game Gem Story.
As of 8/18/09,
Quest
Name
Score
Level
Date
ma
2147483647
16
August 13 2009
Loren
1317023
28
August 16 2009
yan
1108697
9
August 04 2009
Matt
880118
20
August 06 2009
moogleii
313409
17
July 10 2009
smd
298247
1
July 08 2009
bud
284941
32
July 11 2009
Emily
242672
6
July 07 2009
hech
184688
8
July 15 2009
Gg
170662
13
August 05 2009
I thought I had accounted for such a scenario with proper checks, but it looks like [...]
Ron | July 8, 2009
Woot, on July 3rd, 2009, my first iPhone app “Gem Story” was approved! It could probably be described as a more challenging version of Bejeweled; well, challenging, until you learn how to play with the differences. You have a little character that moves alongside the other gems, and monsters that appear and try to get [...]
Ron | February 25, 2009
Use TurboTax. End communique.
OK maybe not. I’ve always been a TaxCut guy. I don’t know when H&R Block got me, but when they did, I just stuck with them. Maybe their boxes and packaging looked a little more professional. Green geometric shapes on a white box. Huzzuh! Meanwhile, TurboTax just seemed like the ghetto alternative. [...]
