Mike Pinkowish

Skier, College Student, Web Developer, And Much More

More Portfolio Items and Apache’s mod_rewrite

June 22, 2008

The past few weeks working at Time Inc. Interactive have been busy, but enjoyable nonetheless. In addition to building JavaScript functionality for a new site and fixing bugs Health.com , I’ve been working on a mash-up of the Google Maps API and Twitter, with great success. Unfortunately, the mash-up, in its newest version, isn’t open to the public, but I’ll [...]

Bad Gas

June 15, 2008

Like every American, the high price of gas at the pump concerns me. It seems like the price has been continually rocketing upwards with no end in sight. A few days ago, I asked myself, ‘What would make the price of gas go down?’ I came up with 3 answers: The global demand decreases, the [...]

Big Red Spamout and Barriers to Entry

June 3, 2008

Over the past few weeks, the spam folder on my Gmail Account has been receiving messages more and more frequently. The great flood of spam mail culminated last Tuesday night when I received over 50 spam messages from one IP address in less than a minute. After notifying the host of the IP address via phone, I [...]