Vdsat.com

It is somewhat ironic that I wrote the title of this post on December 24, 2009, but it has still been sitting in my “drafts” until now. I think I am running out of things to blog about. Because I now uneventfully run a day trading strategy, there’s little point for me to comment on [...]

This post was posted automatically at 12:01 am EST on August 31, 2009. It has been worked on many days in advance.

Three years ago on this day I registered vdsat.com. (You can check the whois records if you’re bored enough.) This blog went up less than a week later and the rest is history.
For those [...]

In the past I have blogged about the following tradeoffs in blogging…
1. The fewer the people who know who the author of the blog is, the more authentic the content of the blog.
2. The wider the blog’s audience, the harder it is for the author of the blog to remain anonymous.
I’m sure you’ve read other’s [...]

Get it at wordpress.org.
What I am hoping for in version 2.7 is a fix for a bug in 2.6 that was very annoying. Over time, Wordpress 2.6 would add random categories to my posts. I tried searching to see if this was a known bug but I never found anything.
The new interface is pretty nice [...]

Blogging withdrawal is very painful. Earlier in the day, I barely resisted the temptation to blog only 12 hours after swearing it off. I ended up lasting abit over 20 hours.
So this is what I am going to do. I am going to stop blogging slowly. I will not blog tomorrow, but I will blog [...]

About a month ago, I blogged that I would stop playing Tribes 2 and stop trading.
What happened? I have not played Tribes 2 since then, but I have been in the market for about a week.
I realized today that now it is the month of September. I have a technical conference to go to in [...]

I registered vdsat.com exactly two years ago. The site was up a week later.

The easiest way to:

Increase the average time spent on your site
Decrease your site’s bounce rate

is to embed a video on your site.
I embedded a video during the early hours of the 19th and the average time spent on my site increased and my site’s bounce rate decreased.
Average time spent on site

Bounce rate

I just upgraded Wordpress from 2.5.1 to 2.6 and it took me 12 minutes, 17 seconds. I claimed it was doable under 5 minutes.
What slowed me down:
1.  I had to download Smart FTP. I did a fresh install of Windows a few weeks ago and didn’t have Smart FTP.
2.  In my post about upgrading in [...]

Anyone want to tell me why a huge gaping hole is on the side of my half gallon of milk?

Now if you’re going to rip me off by keeping the price the same and reducing the amount of product inside the container, that’s fine. But if you are going to keep the same half gallon [...]