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Technicolor Employee Responsible for Gears of War 2 and Fable 2 Leaks
As it turns out one of the ways that games get leaked early to the intertron like Gears of War 2, Fable 2 and that cursed early release of Fallout 3 to BitTorrent networks is by having employees on the inside of the disk-pressing process stealing them. NEWS FLASH: Local blogger attempts to become BFFs with [...]
Continue reading...TSA Employee Caught Selling $200k of Stolen Items on eBay
Monday, October 20, 2008
It was reported that a Newark Airport TSA agent, Pythias Brown, was caught selling $200,000 worth of stolen personal items from people’s luggage on eBay (seller profile). These weren’t confiscated items that Brown was seller on eBay, these were items like digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices and more that he stole out of bags behind [...]
Continue reading...LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java
Friday, June 6, 2008
This is actually pretty awesome for any of the Java devs out there that are concerned that Java is dying and Ruby/Rails/Flavor-of-the-Month is rising up to replace it… it seems that the huge professional social networking site (no, not MySpace) LinkedIn is actually written in 99% Java except for some in-memory C++ caches that they [...]
Continue reading...Amazon is/was Down
Friday, June 6, 2008
Wow what caused that to happen? Amazon has been down for about 20mins, came back up briefly and is dead again right now around 11:08am PST. S3 and EC2 both seem to be running fine though, so maybe it’s just the store front? I wonder what caused Amazon to go down that wouldn’t/doesn’t effect eBay or [...]
Continue reading...eBay - Sellers Cannot Give Buyer Feedback
Friday, May 30, 2008
I saw this today when I was directed to the feedback page to leave feedback on the seller that I just bought a Herman Miller Aeron from (great experience). At first it caught me off guard, my gut reaction being something like “Feedback has been limited?! WHAT?!” but then I thought about it, and remembered a [...]
Continue reading...Hot eBay Deals from Typos
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
This is a slick idea, apparently a service out there called TypoTrawler crawls eBay looking for auctions with typos in them. Why is that important? Good question… it’s important because if an item is misspelled it will have a lot less bids against it and depending on the type of auction, could go for a [...]
Continue reading...eBay Scam Pattern
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Note: Pheebay has put up an excellent article to learn how to spot scams on eBay. Great tips. This is the second time I’ve been scammed on eBay in the last year and it’s starting to drive me a little crazy. The first time I was a seller and the person won a monitor from me and [...]
Continue reading...More eBay Auctions for Gaming Rig Up
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Ok so I just did my 2nd round of tearing down the ultimate gaming rig and the parts are all up on eBay now (the only thing left now is the case): Mushkin 2 GB (2×1 GB) 184-Pin DDR (PC3200) Mushkin 2 GB (2×1 GB) 184-Pin DDR (PC3200) Thermaltake CL-P0071 4 in 1 Heatpipe CPU Cooler AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ [...]
Continue reading...Do Not Use eBay’s “Host your Own” Picture Hosting Option
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Ok so let’s say you have a lot of auctions to post (like I do) and you want to save some money so you decide to use the “Host your Own” picture hosting option. I personally have a SmugMug account and love it, so I’m going to use that instead. Go ahead and setup your entire [...]
Continue reading...Computer Stuff for Sale on eBay
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Well it’s that time of the year, I’m tearing down my ultimate gaming rig that has gone completely ignored for the last 6 months and eBaying it, here are the links: 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Drive 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Drive Xbox 360 Silver Faceplate *NEW* Dell UltraSharp 2001FP 20.1 inch LCD Monitor 2001 to 2006 [...]
Continue reading...eBay’s Developers: 40k Developers, Every 2 Weeks 100k Lines of Code
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Did anyone have ANY idea that eBay was this big and complex? 40k developers and every 2 weeks they make a release that represents essentially 100k lines of code and I can’t stand their goddamn site… where is all this code going? I did a rant a while back telling why I couldn’t stand the site… [...]
Continue reading...eBay: Proof That Consumers Don’t Care About Quality
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Caution: Venting ahead… I’ve been eBaying on and off for about 10 years, and as I’ve gotten older and grumpier I’ve noticed more things about more pieces of software and hardware pertaining to usability that have gone from not noticing them, to absolute rage-induced comas brought on by the stupidity required for such design decisions to [...]
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Monday, October 20, 2008
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