MyVogonPoetry

After many hours and months of work, and many late nights (yes, it’s 1:53 AM right now as I type this) Teenormous has launched. What you see right now is maybe 10% of the features and awesomeness that is planned for the site. We wanted to start with a solid foundation and a great search engine and build on that.

We’ll be adding more t-shirts all the time (there is almost 15,000 right now), and we’ll be doing lots of mini-releases to roll out new features. We have really big plans for the site. What you see now is just the start.

• Teenormous, the t-shirt search engine

My new venture, Snackerrific has launched! It’s a site similar to Candy Addict, only the topic is snacks! Check it out sometime.

The google charts API is a blast:

Just a note for myself to log when it happened… I found a competitor to the new site we’ve been working on and they are doing lots of things we have already planned. Competition’s good though - keeps you on your toes. (if you’re lost, don’t worrry - none of this will really make sense to anyone but me)

In case you don’t follow my candy blog, I’m being flown to NY on Monday to be on TV as a Candy Expert! I was on TV once when I was a kid because I won a Pet Rock Race :)

• Candy Addict on TV

I happened to visit NerdyShirts tonight at just past midnight EST and saw they were having a $1 sale! I picked up two Don’t Hate The Player tees and one (misprint) Free Hugs tee. $3 plus $8 shipping so $11 total for three t-shirts! SWEET!

When using a plugin in Firefox to get the XPath of an item, be aware that Firefox inserts tbody tags into the source. So, if you get an XPath like

/html/body/div[@id='content']/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/div/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]


Do a View Source in Firefox and see if the tbody tags are actually in the source or not. If not, remove the tbody tags in the XPath then the modified XPath will work with Hpricot.

Tags: Ruby, Hpricot, XPath

Wow. My candy blog was linked from BusinessWeek today!

Tags: geek, candy, business, business week

Haven’t fully finished tweaking the theme yet, but check out my latest site: GeekCrafts.com. I’ve got a great writer named Shayne that’s gonna be writing for it. We kick it off in earnest this weekend.

Tags: geek, craft, crafts, scifi, geeky, nerdy, nerd, diy, make

I finally broke down and bought a nice used PSP today (even though I already have a GP2x). Fun fun!