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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
WOOTOFF!
Ever since woot changed their design, my script has been broken. Since we have a wootoff going on now, I've refined and updated it so that once more it works.
I've removed a feature in the public version that runs your browser of choice with the buy now link in order to quash the competition, and so that you can learn a little bit if you desire this feature...add it yourself! It's just one line of code.
To use this, you need a UNIX style shellscript interpreter, sed, grep, curl, and play, though you could use any equivalent program for these to mod the script to work on other OS'es than Mac and Linux.
Download by clicking here, and see the below for the code, should you want to look it over.
#!/bin/bash
#Wootwatch Alarm v0.02
#Written by Matt Parnell/ilikenwf http://www.mattparnell.com
#This is totally free, take it and mod it however you wish, under the GNU GPLv3.
#This script goes every 3 sec to woot and checks for a bag of crap. If found, it sounds an alarm.
clear &
i=0
r=0
while [ $i -lt "1" ]
do
r=`expr $r + 1`
WOOT=`curl -s -f http://www.woot.com`
ITEM=`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<h2 class="fn"[^>]*>\([^>]*\)<\/h2>.*/\1/'`
BUY=`echo $WOOT | grep -o WantOne.aspx?id=.[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*`
echo ""
if echo $ITEM | grep "Random\ Crap"; then
play -q alarm.mp3 &
echo ""
echo "BOC FOUND after $r runs."
i=1
exit
else
AVAIL=`echo $WOOT | grep -o "width:[[:alnum:]]*\%'><" | grep -o "[[:alnum:]]*\%"`
echo "Current item: "
echo $ITEM
echo ""
echo "Price: $`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<span class="amount"[^>]*>\([^>]*\)<\/span>.*/\1/'`"
if echo $AVAIL |grep [[:alnum:]] > /dev/null; then
echo "Available: $AVAIL"
else
echo "SOLD OUT"
fi
echo ""
echo "http://www.woot.com/$BUY"
echo "-------------------------------"
echo "This script has run $r Times."
sleep 1 && clear
fi
done
exit
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
SPSS is way too expensive for a student in Intro to Statistics (me). Most of the class remains a confusion to me despite my previous successes in math classes. Furthermore, I really don't want to have to use the public computer labs here on campus with the dirty keyboards and mice, as well as the small screen resolution, and of course, Windows (nobody in their right mind really wants to use Windows). In an effort to prevent having to take my work to the lab, I went seeking a solution. I could have illegally cracked the SPSS demo, but I really don't like to do such things, and don't encourage it...
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Saturday, 05 September 2009 |
I've been working on a large array of projects lately, and all seem to take up time. I'm back in school, but that really doesn't hinder me that much except for the time I spend in class...furthermore, I make good use of the 30 Megabit Down / 7 Megabit up internet connection.
Wordpress updates and plugin updates were first on the docket. That took plenty of time across my sites, and then I proceeded to play with some new plugins like CosHTMLCache (which broke RSS on a couple of the sites so I reverted to WP-Super-Cache), and I also have started using twitterposter to promote my posts, which has made a good increase in traffic and AdSense clicks.
After that I have just been tinkering and considering whether I should put up more sites, or try to start working on my all in one blackhat SEO command center in an effort to automate as much as I can from site creation, to promotion, to maintenance and tracking, as well as ad placement and management (probably integrate OpenX in some way for that one....).
All in all, I feel I'm on the upswing, though I still stink at getting many CPA conversions...I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'd say the techniques I hear of are often so old that they are saturated or dead, so I guess I need to find a place that doesn't have a bunch of whining n00bs, and enough activity to actually warrant me joining and discussing techniques that work.
In the end, it's all more of a playground than anything...I still have tons of unused domains to do something with...I'll never run out of things to do.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
I know people who do this, and it is legitimate and pays fast.
What you do is fill out surveys, and get paid $3 ( or $5?) per survey you do for market research. The great thing is, you just keep doing them, and keep getting paid. They payout via paypal and checks.
Sign up here, and hope you get accepted!
Good luck!
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Monday, 03 August 2009 |
As I prepare to go back to school, I can only wonder what's next and hope that God reveals His divine plan for my life...
I am ready to go back, things get boring the 3rd or 4th month of summer with no job, little chance of getting a job, and being in front of my laptop the majority of the time, attempting to make more money though my websites and various SEO related ventures.
Alas, the economy is making advertisers pay less, which stinks...I still get some coin though, people are always willing to buy stuff, whether they need it or not.
I hope I can not only get a sustainable and scalable SEO business going, but I also want to automate it so that I can have time for other things, but those other things I have yet to find or figure out yet...though I would like to find a girlfriend...and be more social.
I'm alive and I guess I should post some hacker-ish or SEO related article here sometime...I will...
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