I’ve been testing some advertising on StumbleUpon lately for Cashboard. The numbers have been decent, so I decided to put a little more money into it.

Unfortunately StumbleUpon uses PayPal for their payment system. I made a payment on my account with them 3 days ago. It shows up in PayPal, but not on StumbleUpon. I’m guessing it’s a problem with their IPN notification system.

What’s even worse is two emails have gone unanswered. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Update (6/25/07 1pm)

Looks like they just needed a kick in their ass. Mysteriously this morning the funds appeared and advertising was back on.

Power of the blog? Hrm….

Hey it’s almost the weekend. I know you’re all working hard out there just like me.

Might as well have some new music to listen to right?

Check out my new favorite internet radio station.

Any station that has an ED-209 look alike with a set of massive headphones on for a mascot has to be good.

So many toys, so little time…

Check out this typographic synthesizer.

Meek FM is an interpretation of type as sound. Using new software and the M.E.E.K. typographic synthesizer, the musician/designer develops sounds and typographic visuals in parallel.

Cool…

This guy had it coming…Ever been in a meeting with someone like that?

StumbleUpon for the win again.

Check out these killer wooden robots from Japan.

Like everyone else is asking, where the hell can I buy them? I need them on my desk, watching over me while I work.

I’ve really gotten into StumbleUpon. This is going to make me the internet equivalent of a couch potato.

Anyhow, here’s the straight dope of what I’ve come across in the past day.

• Sweetie Icons for your web site
  • Dope pixel-based icons for free.
• Box Widget
  • Sweet little flash widget for presenting your files anywhere you can paste HTML code.
• Stripe Generator
  • Ever wanted to created a striped background, but didn’t want to open Photoshop? You can do it here… Further proof that you can do pretty much anything on the internet.
• Web Design is 95% Typography
  • Beautiful article about typography and how it applies to web design.
  • Lists common mistakes designers make, and ideas for fixing things.
  • Recommends two kick ass books on typography as well.

...And, if you are a StumbleUpon junkie like me, add me as a friend.

...Now I’m down in it.

I’m sitting here listening to old music I have on my computer while I work. It’s nuts that NiN made pretty hate machine in 1989 and it sounds this good…

“I made Pretty Hate Machine using a Mac Plus, an Emax keyboard and a Mini Moog,” says Reznor. “That set up was cool because it was so limiting that it forced you to get the most out of what you had to work with. It was just basic MIDI, with no digital audio. But I knew the three pieces of gear I had inside and out,” he adds.

Thought for the day…limits force you to be creative.

Using StumbleUpon for the first time today I came across a really cool resource for DHTML scripts that I hadn’t seen before.

Some great stuff in there though including a JS / SVG chart library. Sick.

Here’s another nice resource of DHTML libraries as well.

Too bad they didn’t include subModal though…haters.

Substruct, the open-source Ruby on Rails e-commerce and cms engine has finally been updated to Rails 1.2.3 and Engines 1.2

Special thanks to NSHB for his help in this update.
http://www.nshb.net/

Substruct website:
http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct

The release is available at:
http://svn.subimage.com/source/substruct/site/tags/rel_0.9/

Version 0.9
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Upgrade steps:
  1. Update to Engines 1.2.0
    - This is done for you if you are using externals to load Substruct

    2. Upgrade to Rails 1.2.3
    - This is done for you if you are using externals to load Substruct

    3. Change all instances of engines_stylesheet to stylesheet_link_tag with :plugin => 'substruct'
        - <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'substruct', :plugin => 'substruct' %>

    4. Change all instances of engines_javascript to javascript_include_tag with :plugin => 'substruct'
    - <%= javascript_include_tag 'substruct', :plugin => 'substruct' %>

    5. If you have customized the configuration, change to use..
        - Substruct.my_custom_config = 'value'

    6. MERGE the /vendor/plugins/substruct/config_stubs/environment.rb with your /config/environment.rb file
      - Some configuration changes have been made.
      - Merge the two and see if you need to make any updates.

Fixed:
  - Now works with Engines 1.2
  - Fixed all Rails 2.0 deprecation warnings
  - Changed the way config settings work to no longer use module

Ever tried to save a web page and send it to someone? What about printing a web page? Both pretty much suck.

A lot of people are talking about printing with HTML and CSS these days but what they don’t tell you is the following:

• Determine where page breaks happen.
• Set page size or type (landscape or portrait).
• Print background colors…some browsers don’t even print images.
• Set page footers.

Wow, that’s lame.

Ever tried sending someone a web page? Not a link, but the actual web page. It doesn’t work well at all.