Posts tagged “Amazon”

Perl v. Pearl

Note to hep-cat Amazon employees: “Perl the programming language” “Pearl Jam the rock band”.

Wishlist

Y’know what I want? I want to be able to click anything, anywhere, and add it to my amazon.com wishlist. (Note that that is a link to a Google Search on the term “amazon wishlist” and not another shameless plug for my own wishlist.) Like this pendrive, f’rinstance. What a great little toy! I want

PowerLinks

Well that was fun. Way back in March I implemented the PowerLinks MT hack from scottandrew.com. When I upgraded to MT2.11 I lost the hack, of course. So I re-hacked it. I played with it a bit and added a few more features. One thing I have wanted to do since day one was add

TheBrad

Hey! TheBrad just noticed that Amazon.com’s wishlist system is failing bloggers. If you try to click on someone else’s wishlist, Amazon displays your own wishlist instead (if you have one). That means that since I have a wishlist there, I can’t see anyone else’s! The hell? What did they change? Has anyone else found a

Pens

I have to see if there’s a way to add this pen to my Christmas wishlist. I love cool pens. There are dozens of really awesome ones at Levenger. If you love pens as much as I do, check out the Fisher Bullet Space Pen. It fits in your pocket (and anywhere else!) and is

new phone

Greetings from Amazon.com. We thought you’d like to know that we shipped your items today, and that this completes your order. Thanks for shopping at Amazon.com, and we hope to see you again soon.

Marketing 101

I bought something from amazon.com a few days ago and it just arrived. Included in the package were ten one-cent stamps with a nice little note about how they were saving me the hassle of going to the post office to buy more stamps (because the rates increased a penny). It is a ridiculously silly

Wishlists at Amazon.com

Did you know that if you go to amazon.com and create a wishlist, or if you make a purchase for me from my wishlist you not only have a chance of winning $5,000 – or something like that – but you also increase my chances of winning all the other things on my wishlist? Friends:

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.