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Archive for May, 2008

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One of the Most Stressful Nights In a Long Time

At 8:00 PM EST yesterday, FixUpMyPic’s uploading system underwent a serious overhaul. At that time, the upload page was temporarily parked, and our wonderful coding team started on the updates. Immediately, things started to go downhill. You see, the moment our upload page went down, we received a ton of email asking when we will [...]

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The New and Ugly Google Favicon – It Looks Like a Toilet Seat

It seems as if Google has just changed its favicon, (the little logo next to the http:// address in the address bar,) and let me tell you, I am not fond of it at all. Sure, it does stand out more than the old one because now it has a small gradient behind it, but [...]

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Firefox Wants a Guinness World Record

Firefox not only has the goal of being the fastest, most secure browser out there, but they also want to receive a Guinness World Record of the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Because the older version of Firefox has already been established, they are going to start with the release of Firefox 3, which [...]

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The Ways of the SEO Samurai

This is a guide for many of you out there who is either having trouble starting their own blog, or have a blog that seems slow in terms of unique traffic. This guide will give you tips and tricks and introduce you to the world of SEO otherwise known as Search Engine Optimization. And in [...]

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Win 500 Entrecard Points Every Week – Contest #1

So here is the first contest of many on The Many Happenings, and it’s extremely easy. I am willing to give out 500 of my Entrecard points each week to the user who wins with the best image submission. Each week there will be a different topic, based on a “best of,” and all you [...]

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My Moment of Being the Most Rich I'll Ever be in My Life

So today I went to order my Wacom Bamboo Tablet on Amazon that I have been wanting for a while. The price was right, there was free shipping, and I had a $10 gift card from a Zune survey that they had us do in the early stages of the new version of their software. [...]

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Here is a Closed Beta Invitation for Qassia

So far, Qassia is very intriguing. It claims to be an “intelligence engine,” or a closed community of blogs where users share links and “intel,” or information with each other. When a user reads and refers the intel, they gain Qassia bucks, which they get to spend on backlinks, other sources of traffic, or integrate [...]

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Automation & FixUpMyPic Updates

We have received over 500 unique pictures over the last couple of days on FixUpMyPic, and we are extremely honored to have such a turn out; especially this early in the site’s age. Some of them unfortunately couldn’t be returned due to extremely low quality or resolution, but over 90% have been fixed and uploaded [...]

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A Little Bit About The Current Projects

Just to get my readers familiar with the current projects and their progress, I will list them in order of importance. Even though you can view them on the sidebar to the right, here is a little bit of info about each one. GameDrift – Technology & Gaming Combined. My first real site and the [...]

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Welcome & Recap

Dear internet – there are a few things I would like to tell you. First and foremost, as you probably already know, this is the official blog about me, Stuart Piazza. It is going to be more personal than anything, but here you will find out updates about my life, my projects, and news about [...]