Month: January 2008

  • Learning how to respond to downtime

    If you run a web service, I want you to take a moment to learn from the recent response by 37signals regarding their 2hours of downtime they had the other day. Here is what I said about it on my linklog. "37signals responds to downtime, perfectly. They start with an explanation of what happened, then

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  • Going mobile with my iPhone photos

    Flickr is in a short list of my most-frequented, and favorite, web applications. That being said, once I setup my Photos section I began to only use my Flickr account to comment on my Flickr contact’s photos. Recently I decided that, instead of allowing my Flickr account to go to waste, I would use it

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  • Llewelyn Moss

    Date taken: September 2, 2007 This moss was pwning the sedimentary rock.

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  • Predicting the weather is no easy task

    While poking around my local news station’s web site this afternoon to see how much snow we’d be getting, and when it would fall, I managed to find a thoughtful nugget left by Tom Clark – the lead Meteorologist at WNEP. I thought I’d quote the entire thing here, because I think we can all

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  • Safe passage

    Date taken: January 11, 2008 A passage between 50-something and 50-something streets in New York City.

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  • Pusher

    Date taken: January 11, 2008 This Coca-Cola delivery man was working hard in New York City.

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  • The Photos index gets a new look

    When I launched the Photos section of this site in September 2007 (wow, time flies) I had said that I wanted to spruce up the index page once I thought I had published enough photos to make it look nice. "The index page is no where near completed but I wanted to have at least

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  • Our fourth season premier LOST invitations

    By now anyone that we’ve invited to watch the season premier of LOST with us this year has gotten their invitations in the mail. So it should be safe to write this post and make it public, I hope. Eliza and I wanted to invite a few of our friends over and I thought it’d

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  • From the stairs

    Date taken: January 5, 2008 A view down the Ben Franklin Pky. from the stairs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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  • Tharrrr be ads on this herrrre site!

    So I couldn’t come up with an exciting way to tell you that I’m testing out Google Adsense on my blog for the months of January and February. Sue me. So here is how the ads work, why I’m doing it, and what my goals are. How my system of ad placement works I believe

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