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365 Adventures in 2011: Day 10 – A mistake worth thousands of dollars

I’m a little late posting today’s picture of the day, but with good reason. I spent a couple hours tonight discovering and getting to the bottom of a Lanyard Lab business mistake that may end up saving us thousands of dollars. Needless to say, I’m happy I found it.

I won’t get into specifics of the mistake, but to figure out just how deep the problem ran, I turned all Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of “The Social Network” for a while, writing some rapid-fire, database-driven code to analyze the issue. So today’s picture is of my computer screen, blurred for security and privacy reasons, with freshly-written PHP code on the left, HTML on the right, and the results of the coding printed in the middle:

The joys of being an entrepreneur.

Oh, and to keep this picture-of-the-day thing properly sorted, I’ve back-dated this post to January 10, even though I’m technically writing it after midnight on January 11. I can bend the rules. It’s my blog.