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I've always lambasted my sister who spends an insane amount of time just eye-shopping in the mall. I keep telling her, "There's nothing to look at for that long.

Unfortunately, Dell has managed to entangle me with their "deals." My new guilty pleasure has been to go to the Dell website, clipboard filled with coupon codes ... I make desktops that I'd want and then I use the coupon codes to make the cheapest combination computer. It's so soothing to see a total price of $1400 and see that you're getting -$400 off the price ... it just makes me feel so good.

I've made about 5 or 6 computers today, using a combination of their "outrageous" deals and just making a standard computer and using the coupon codes I've gotten from the Dellf game (a site where you can play "games" to earn Dell coupons).

Of course, I keep just closing out the window (I really wish I just had a thousand or two to blow on a new computer) ... but I'm sure one of these times my inhibitions will be lowered enough that I actually make a purchase.

Damn you Dell with your coupon codes and your low low prices .... *shakes fist*

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Great news! The Tabulas licensing deal went through! Yay! Some money for me ... the beauty of it all is that I never had any intentions of ever licensing out Tabulas ... but there IS a demand for it! Woo hoo! Let's just hope I can get 2.0 out in time... ehehe

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A few days ago, I finally got my business cards that I had designed/ordered a looonnng time ago.

They came out real well ... I was very impressed at their quality. It's hard to tell here, but they're made of this semi-plastic satin material so they're very durable.

How do you like them? I think it's very "me," whatever that means. I don't know what it is, but everyone is always able to tell when I've made a certain design/site or something. They always say, "It's very Roy." I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

If you want one, let me know. I can send some through snailmail ... because ... you couldn't find my Tabulas otherwise ... I think.

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The product of about 4-5 hours of reading and cobbling together a prototype of a future feature.

Perhaps with the upcoming season coming, a "wishlist" feature might be a good way to letting your TABULAS friends know what you'd like so I can get you guys gifts (MAYBE!)

So far I have an interface in the control panel that connects through Amazon's Web Service API to grab search query results; you can then add that data into your wishlist with a click of a button; some data then becomes locally stored in Tabulas (so I don't have to rely on bloaty XML over HTTPD) ... and your 'wishlist' page is automatically generated. If you have anything *on* your wishlist, it will appear as a link in your content page.

So far, no interface for removing/editing your wishlist ... I'm thinking maybe next to the user's "bday" notification, I can also throw in a link to their wishlist if they've created one.

Would also like to let people "note" when they've bought something so multiple people don't buy the same item over and over again.