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2010 Major Life Changing Experiment

January 2nd, 2010 • No Comments

2009 was a good year. Which is why I’m selling everything I own and starting out 2010 with literally zero dollars to my name, with the intent to build up my assets and personal wealth to at least one million dollars in cash before December 31, 2011. All through the internet.

Now since this is more of a personal battle I’ve created to test myself, there will be no life-threatening constraints placed upon me to feed reality-show obsessed gawkers, and such I won’t provide much theatrics for said nonsense. In fact, much of my success will require actual work, so if you’re interested in starting an online business you might learn a lot as the year progresses. Otherwise, you’re probably just wasting your time. You won’t see me grasping for breath on webcam, using my last thoughts to debate the economics of eating vs paying a webhosting bill.

Here’s the lowdown:

It’s January 2nd, 2010 – 2:12AM.
I have $0.
I have no checks or other income coming in, at all.
I will not file for unemployment, under any circumstance.
I am allowing myself to keep any domains that aren’t generating income. This blog, and a small selection of others will be kept.
I will never ask for donations, or run ads on this blog.
No government grants or hand-outs, but I do plan on venture capital as the business I have in mind (which does not exist yet) is legit and will require it.

Let the life experiment begin.

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Advanced PHP Session Security Concepts, Part One

December 30th, 2009 • No Comments

When I have trouble understanding complex issues, I often try to deconstruct the topic and then compare the basic concept to a daily routine that I have already figured out. This process hasn’t let me down until recently, when I was trying to wrap my head around web security. As usual, I don’t expect replies [...]

Merry Christmas.

December 25th, 2009 • No Comments

It’s 4:12 AM on Christmas morning, and I’m programming some JavaScript for a webapp that I’ve been working on. That’s either supreme dedication, or downright mental. In any event, enjoy your holiday.

Google Android Developer Forum and Free Code

November 10th, 2009 • No Comments

Like many people, I bought into the hype and purchased a first generation iPhone and iPod Touch (second generation) when they first came out. Mostly I just wanted a phone that had all the cool new features, partially because I wanted to be trendy, but also because some of those options included were pretty useful [...]

PhotoShop Geekage

October 22nd, 2009 • 1 Comment

While looking around my apache log files the other day I found out that this site got hacked last summer. Fortunately, no real damage was done, but it did take a few minutes to remove the malicious code and install the latest version of WordPress, which somehow made the software delete all the images I’ve [...]

My Disclaimer

October 20th, 2009 • No Comments

Recently the FTC, FCC and KFC joined forces to kill free speech on the internet by enacting a set of fake laws and loose guidelines for bloggers, aimed to help those too clueless to distinguish “Becky’s (fake) Weight Loss Blog” from, oh I don’t know, the Huffington Post. In order to comply with the Government [...]

Houston, Can You Hear Me Now?

October 20th, 2009 • No Comments

I never went to a technical college, but people who paid the fifty-grand to learn what I know always tell me there are only two rules for successfully maintaining a website: 1. Always keep backups. 2. Don’t let people hack you. I forgot both, and accidentally deleted the folder with all the images I’ve uploaded [...]

Odd Belkin Router JavaScript

October 6th, 2009 • No Comments

This JS function was taken from one of the configuration pages hosted on my wireless router: function isHex(s) { var j, x = 0; for (var i = 0 ; i < s.length; i++) { var c = s.charAt(i); j = parseInt(c, 16); if (!((j == 0) || (j == 1)|| (j == 2)|| (j [...]