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Taking Control (Back) in Google Website Optimizer

What do you do when you want to decide which variation a particular user sees? That’s a question that just doesn’t come up in most GWO tests, but suppose, for instance, you want to run two tests on your site and wish the users who saw a particular graphical theme in experiment 1 to see […]

Posted byMarkham2 May 20123 May 2012Posted inComputingTags: How toLeave a comment on Taking Control (Back) in Google Website Optimizer

Blistered fingers from guitar playing

Since the band broke up last May, I hadn’t picked up a guitar for an earnest practice until last week… Two days after I found the photographed blister on my finger the next morning. The swelling disappeared, but it filled with blood, and it’s even darker today. I raised a guitar-playing blister on my finger […]

Posted byMarkham30 April 2012Posted inselfLeave a comment on Blistered fingers from guitar playing

Not excited about Google’s “self-driving” auto

Today at work, Angela shared with us this story: Google’s self-driving car takes blind man to Taco Bell, and I just couldn’t be happy for anyone, not Google, not the blind man, and not even Taco Bell, who finally got a customer that could afford a car. Perhaps my irritation with Google over their self-driving […]

Posted byMarkham30 March 2012Posted inUncategorized2 Comments on Not excited about Google’s “self-driving” auto

Fun (& dissapointment) with Email Fraud

Last week, a coworker tapped me on the shoulder and said, “I got this weird e-mail.” It was from “accounts@[his bank].com.” It read, “Your account has been overdrawn by $1 billion. Come up with the money by five o’clock, or we’ll break your legs.” I waited for Nick, my coworker, to share his thoughts and […]

Posted byMarkham2 March 201230 November 2012Posted inUncategorized2 Comments on Fun (& dissapointment) with Email Fraud

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