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Now that I’m working form home I have a new all-purpose AIM account: whatsupjoey.

I take it back, Google. You picked the right Joey Nelson. Trust me, Joey Nelson. Joey Nelson.

Google, when are you going to realize that I’m the web’s premier Joey Nelson, not that stuntman on IMDB? I hate you.

Bookflipper is a tiny web app that serves up pricing information for used books from the Amazon API. My friend Brian has been picking up cheap books and selling them on Amazon for a profit. Now when he’s wondering if a purchase is going to pay off, he can just pull out his cell phone and enter the book’s ISBN into Bookflipper to see what the market is like.

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The page size is usually between 0.5-0.6k, thanks in part to some output buffer trickery. Of course, the preview image is much bigger but it seemed too useful to get rid of.

Dear joseph nelson,

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?

Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $1.08 has been placed into your Go Daddy(R) account.

And they laughed when I registered those 36 domains!