Huge Blogging Contest: $10,000 in Prizes

March 16, 2008 Posted by Tyler Cruz

If you haven’t heard about this contest already, then you’ve been living under a rock for the past week. My friend nemesis friend Gyutae Park of WinningTheWeb is holding another blog contest, and this is one of the best blog contests I’ve seen to date.
He is giving out $9,091 in prizes and cash. There are [...]

Posted: March 16th, 2008 under Miscellaneous 11 Comments

Comment on this Post and Get a Free Phone Card

March 15, 2008 Posted by Tyler Cruz

That’s right. In an effort to reward those who regularly read my blog, I’m giving out phone cards to the first 11 people who comment in this post. You can’t enter an easier contest than that!
Please leave your e-mail address in your comment, or make sure that your e-mail address is attached to your account [...]

Posted: March 15th, 2008 under Miscellaneous 32 Comments

I Live in the Google Capital of the World

March 12, 2008 Posted by Tyler Cruz

I received an e-mail about an hour ago from a reader of my blog (Jimson Lee of SpeedEndurance.com) who told me about an article on Slashdot regarding Google and my city of Nanaimo. Apparently, Time wrote an article a couple days ago titled “How Google Earth Ate Our City“.
Nanaimo has a population of around 79,000 [...]

Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Miscellaneous 25 Comments

What Poker Can Teach Us about Web Development

March 6, 2008 Posted by Solo Programmer

I’ve noticed that a lot of web entrepreneurs (myself included) also seem to be into poker. Perhaps it’s the risk taking excitement that draws people to both. Maybe it’s the independence that both require and reward. But I couldn’t help but wonder if there were deeper similarities between the two. What are lessons that a [...]

Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Miscellaneous 14 Comments