The end of StudentPwned.com

June 17, 2010 – 4:57 pm

If you’re one of the dozen or so people that would occasionally stumble upon my Student Pwned website, I have some bad news: I’ve retired it. I only have myself to blame. I think the last blog post I wrote on the site was in April 2009.

When I first started the site it seemed like a great idea and a good way to help other people out there in the same financial situation as me, but I just don’t have the time to work on it anymore. So rather than keep the site up collecting dust I decided the best thing to do was to just shut it down.

Well, not completely. You can still follow my up to date loan balance and I’ve also added a graph of my balance history, updated monthly (thanks Google Chart Tools). It was also a good opportunity to mess around with Google’s new Font API, which is incredibly simple to use.

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The most annoying thing ever

May 14, 2010 – 10:42 am

This is probably the most annoying thing that I have to deal with at work:

Someone: URGENT! OMG we need [some project] built ASAP! There’s no time to spare! Puppies will die if we don’t act quickly! The apocalypse is imminent!!

Me: Okay. Here is [some project]. Please send me your feedback.

wait 3-5 days…

Someone: Can you change X, Y and Z? Also, we decided to completely change everything. Can you make these changes ASAP?? Puppies will die!!!!

Me:

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I’m finally writing a new blog post

May 13, 2010 – 12:14 am

Just kidding!

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If you’re reading this in Google Reader, you just earned 1 ReaderAdvantage point

April 1, 2010 – 8:17 pm

The secret is out. The “Mike L.” featured on Google Reader’s ReaderAdvantage™ Program landing page is actually Mike Leotta. As in the MikeLeotta.com Mike Leotta. As in me.

Why is my testimonial featured on this page? And what am I doing squatting in shallow water with ducks? I’m afraid I can’t offer an explanation for the latter but I can for the former: because it was my idea. Well, I actually had proposed the idea for Gmail, but they ended up going in a different direction (which I also had to help out with). So the Reader folks snagged it and modified it slightly.

I’m also responsible for a large portion of the stupid “fine print” at the bottom, which I wrote up very very late at night when I obviously think about Sasquatch more than usual.

Props to the Google Reader team for turning my stupid idea into something fun!

Oh, and don’t forget about that disclaimer link that’s always on the bottom of this site.

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Oreo^® brand sandwich cookies

February 17, 2010 – 9:36 am

Why is it that recipes on product packages always say something like “1 package of Oreo^® brand sandwich cookies” or “4 tablespoons Peter Pan^® brand peanut butter”?

Do they think I’m going to buy a package of Oreos just for the recipe, throw them out and then buy the store brand “Chocolate cream sandwich cookies” to make the recipe?

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