Entries from December 2006

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Back to Clevenger North

In April, I hiked the Clevenger North trails in San Pasqual in the rain. I went back on Friday and completed the 6 mile hike on a nice clear day.

San Pasqual Hiking Trails (North) 2 - Dec 2006

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Alexa Web Popularity

It appears that 2006 was a good year for the popularity of my web empire. According to Alexa, my sites are becoming more popular. Either that or everyone else is becoming less popular. Either way, I’ll take it. With Alexa rankings, the lower the number, the higher the ranking. (Yahoo is #1)
INeedCoffee.com has climbed [...]

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Snowshoeing in San Diego

Last night I attended the snowshoeing clinic at REI. For those that haven’t been to an REI clinic, they spent an hour talking about the topic and all the wonderful gear you can buy at their store. Since the clinics are free, this is a fair trade.
For those outside of San Diego that are scratching [...]

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

DeepFitness Amazon Product Search

Using the Amazon E-Commerce API and a Cloud Control, I developed a product search feature for DeepFitness.

Monday, December 4th, 2006

DeepFitness Video Player

This weekend I coded a video player for DeepFitness using the YouTube API, C# and ASP.NET.

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Inverse Investing Made Easy

When buying equities the game has a simple philosophy: Buy Low, Sell High.
That’s all fine and dandy if you believe prices are going higher. What happens if you wish to invest and you feel the market is overvalued? In the past if you wanted to bet against the rising market your only choice was [...]