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Just using Stumble to peruse the interwebs and I came across this guy’s video on how to lower your interest rates from creditors.

What he says isn’t rocket science, he’s essentially giving you two pointers:

• The squeeky wheel gets the grease
• Knowing what to say will do wonders

This is a great time to have this knowledge as it could save you thousands of dollars in the long-run.

Good luck.

Wow.

I just discovered an amazing source of Photoshop wizardy: Vandalay Design’s Photoshop Tutorials.

I’m no expert in Adobe Photoshop, but I do love to mess around and I use it to create designs and interfaces for my various web sites and web applications.

Here’s a little something I came up with just using one of the tutorials on the site-

This took me about 10 minutes to create just messing around with different techniques and the like.

Here’s another I did later on-

And again later on-

I’m still checking out the various tips and tricks on the site, but I wanted to let the people know!

-Scott

34,429.

That’s how many unique hits the blog got today and it’s the most uniques I’ve had to any website without paying for it through PPC.

Today started with me waking up to a ‘Bandwidth Exceeded/Site Suspended’ message and I knew either I had forgotten to check the bandwidth and a few hits had pushed it over the limit, or the unlikely had happened and Digg had killed me. I increased the bandwidth to around 10gb and the site was still down. That’s when my eyebrows went up and I checked my recent Digg submissions. Sure enough, I’d been front paged and there were angry Diggers asking for mirrors and describing the easy website take-down as ‘pathetic.’

It was glorious.

My first experience with the Digg effect and all for a picture of a kid jumping into flood water. Now all I had to do was to get the site back up and running with WP Super Cache! After about an hour of back and forth with support, I had the site back up with cached pages serving the digg users and everything was beautiful.

From that point on, my day has been spent doing work in between stat checks. It doesn’t bring in any money or anything like that, but it just amazes me how many people swarm to sites once they hit the front page of social bookmarking sites.

The hope is that the site gains some backlinks and a little more link power for future endeavors.

Out of all the things today, I am most amused with being the #1 result on Google for ‘invisible hammock.’

Strange day, but great experience. Hope it’s not the last!

-Scott

Only in Canada...

How awesome is that? They even have a Zamboni machine! Oh, Canada…

Looks like Photoshop, right?

As I was Stumbling along, I came across this very Photoshop-esque web-based flash application: Pixlr.

Some things aren’t there that I love, like a few advanced shortcuts but the basics are there. Overall though, I was completely blown away by the functionality they put into this thing.

Here’s what I came up with after 2 minutes as a little ode to Digg (I’m sure most of you could do 100x better)-

Digg Logo done in Pixlr

Enjoy!

Invisible Hammock?

The arrow on the sign prevents him from falling.

Snow Army

Just another one I stumbled across.  Somebody had an immense amount of time on their hands.