Sunday, September 10, 2006

1:1

Success!: Now when you're inputting a recipe you can do an amazon-supported search to find the cookbook it's from, so it'll pop up with a nice little image when you view the recipe. Aaaaand if someone buys it then I get a kickback! Give me a bit and you'll also be able to browse recipes by cookbook sources.

Failure!: You know how I asked about NYC? Well, there's a lil' thing called freshdirect that does grocery delivery. I hacked up a nice little script to allow you to add items to your freshdirect cart from your shopping list on Snacksby, but it turns out even their website doesn't allow session hijacking, which was how you were going to take over Snacksby's freshdirect shopping cart. That's fine enough, I suppose, so people don't steal your credit card info or something, but it sure did make all of my work for nothing - maybe if you plead real nice they'll let sessions get stolen for not-logged-in users? Anyway, that's what I've been working on recently, sucks it didn't work out.

I guess I'll try to hook into Amazon's services or something... Anyone use any other online grocery services?

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

vulgar bulghur and other tales

This weekend I was in chicago, my new favorite city on earth since I don't care about foie gras (I do care about pierogies, just in case you were wondering. asparagus/feta/red pepper vareniki? yeah!). I was in a spelling bee in a bar and fell out in the first round on the word bulgur, which i spelled bulghur, because that's how it's spelled on the damn bag of bulgur wheat i've got sitting on my counter.

But while I was gone? Oh right, Snacksby died. Apologies about that. In an amazing and unpredictable fit of competence, however, 1and1 seems to have restarted the server for me without me waiting on hold for a million years or even calling them at all. It's incredible! I've turned off a couple things in the meantime and miiight not really turn them back on for the moment 'cause I've got bigger fish to fry. They just a couple measurementy things, you'll probably survive.

Not like anyone really reads this, but: Do any of you live in New York City? I need to know, sort of, for secret things.

vulgar bulghur and other tales

This weekend I was in chicago, my new favorite city on earth since I don't care about foie gras (I do care about pierogies, just in case you were wondering. asparagus/feta/red pepper vareniki? yeah!). I was in a spelling bee in a bar and fell out in the first round on the word bulgur, which i spelled bulghur, because that's how it's spelled on the damn bag of bulgur wheat i've got sitting on my counter.

But while I was gone? Oh right, Snacksby died. Apologies about that. In an amazing and unpredictable fit of competence, however, 1and1 seems to have restarted the server for me without me waiting on hold for a million years or even calling them at all. It's incredible! I've turned off a couple things in the meantime and miiight not really turn them back on for the moment 'cause I've got bigger fish to fry. They just a couple measurementy things, you'll probably survive.

Not like anyone really reads this, but: Do any of you live in New York City? I need to know, sort of, for secret things.