Year: 2009

On Wednesday my friend Chris and I ate dinner at Pete N’ Reenie’s in Eynon, PA – a 50s-style burger/shake joint. The food was delicious, the service was good (the owner was our waitress), and the place is altogether great. I think Pete N’ Reenie’s is going to quickly become one of my favorite places…

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Delicious food, good service. Recommended.

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Recent piece from Khoi Vinh puts the amount of money that the New York Yankees spend on payroll into perspective. Short version: The Yankees spend a lot of money on payroll but compared to their revenues they spend less than some other teams when compared to their revenues. Read the long version though, it is…

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Chris Messina, founding father of the the ever-popular (and sometimes not) Hashtag, has proposed a few more syntax specific ways of doing things on Twitter. Chris is suggesting that we use /via instead of (via @cdevroe), /by for quote credits, and /cc for carbon-copying messages to specific people on Twitter. Chris gives good examples for…

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If you’re a Star Wars geek, like I am, then you’ve probably seen the photo of Princess Leia and her stunt double soaking up some sun during a Return of the Jedi shoot. The Official Star Wars Blog decided to set the record straight about the origin of the photo – since some of the…

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My recent jogging resurgence has taught me a little bit about my own body’s memory. It turns out that my lungs have not forgotten that this past spring I was jogging a lot. That I was jogging further and further and more consistently than any other time in my entire life. And that I was…

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Someone flipped a box lid on top of themselves.

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I didn’t eat very well this week. I ate more than I should have, and drank too much beer (my goal was to only drink beer one evening this week, and I think I drank like three or four evenings). I did well with beginning my exercise routine again though. I ran on Tuesday, Friday,…

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Sometimes we communicate this way in the morning. Isn’t Pookers cute?

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Photo credit: AP Photo/Kevin Frayer. This is a fantastic image. Not that I’d expect anything less from The Big Picture.

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[viddler id-e0f2f376 h-280 w-420] Random 60: What time do you wake up? I wake up every morning around 6:45a. I love it. Back in 2006 I was getting up at 7. As I get older, I’m getting up earlier. But really, I enjoy waking up early and getting things accomplished. It is when I work…

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You know all of the jokes that I’m thinking about right now. So I don’t need to type them.

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This guy deserved two photos.

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My friend Gary has been quoted as saying "Community starts with one". In other words, a community can begin with just one person besides yourself. If you are building an online community this fact can quickly be, and wrongfully so, ignored due to the massive amount of people online. It isn’t very long into any…

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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Another nice post about LessConf, this time by @Yardboy, and he gives his general thoughts about each presentation and the conference as a whole. Here is what he wrote about Yours Truly: "Colin Devroe from Viddler seemd to have a lot of fun with his talk. Steve and Allan issued a series of challenges across…

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Continued from Day two: The shell. The warmth of the egg startled him at first. He never expected, in this cold, for the egg to be as warm as it was. Putting his hand back on the egg he tried to gauge the temperature of this massive, greenish egg that had suddenly appeared in his…

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Just kidding. These are moving boxes. I got ya though didn’t I?

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Like I’ve said before, I’ve been on Twitter since November 2006 and I wanted to know the total number of followers my account has ever had. Even though I’ve only (and I say that with humility) got 1,700 followers currently – how many times has my account been "followed" over the last…

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Belatedly inspired by Jeff Johns, I decided to reward myself after a decent 5K jog this afternoon with some eggs for lunch. I love eggs. I love toast. [I love cast iron](http://cdevroe.com/?s=cast iron).

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He loves to sit next to me when I read.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view…

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Continued from Day one: Discovery. NaNoDrawMo – Day two: The Shell. The appearance of the object was such that it was almost undeniably an egg. The shape, the texture, the way it sat upright on its bulging bottom in amongst some well-placed blades of grass made it quite obvious. Wait. Well placed? What placed this…

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Here is an idea I really like. I’m sort of addicted to human curation. It is probably why I like magazines and newspapers so much. Someone decides what is worth putting on the front page of those things, rather than only the popularity of something. Listorious is a curated directory of Twitter’s new feature Lists.…

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Recently the IconFactory guys, the same guys that brought you Twitterrific for the Mac and iPhone, Frenzic (another great game), RampChamp (another great game), and many other well-made things, found a bug in iTunes that potentially cost them loads of dough. To help out, here is a link to their new game for the iPhone…

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Not a bad way to end a good day.

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This last week was probably my worst ‘food week’ on the diet in a very long time (besides our cruise, vacations don’t count on my diet). I started off the week right by going on a hike but I didn’t get too much exercise after that. Which would have been ok if it weren’t for…

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NaNoDrawMo – Day one: Discovery. Ted Arnold, a farmer from New England, notices what appears to be an egg just outside of his barn. Cautiously he approaches the object wondering where it may have come from. As he stares at it for a few minutes from about 10 feet away he remembers a distant memory…

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I’m loving this book. Too bad it doesn’t help me with my cats!

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Jason Fried recently wrote a tip for speakers that start off their presentations at conferences or any type of public speaking by saying "Sorry, I didn’t have time to prepare better" or something along those lines. His tip? Don’t say that. Jason is right. You shouldn’t say that. It makes people begin to wonder why…

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[viddler id-120f30a5 h-280 w-420] Random 60: How do you get motivated? In today’s random 60 I ask where you find your inspiration but after viewing the video I realize what I really meant was how do you get motivated? After you’ve been working for a while on a particular thing and you notice your productivity…

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I’m a big fan of Webkit. Although I had been a die hard fan of Safari for a while I’m now using Google Chrome as my primary browser. The great thing about Chrome is that it too uses the Webkit rendering engine. I’ll catalog my reasons for using Chrome in another post. The next version…

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how…

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Mary Ann waits patiently for me to take her to work.

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[viddler id-3d73076 h-280 w-420] Random 60: What is your favorite music genre? Special guest Jeff Johns, a friend and fellow Viddler team member, has a particular taste in music so I put him on the spot to name his favorite music genre. My favorite music genre would have to be Rock. What is your favorite…

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I know we’re 1/3 of the way through Fall but for those of you that haven’t yet visited the site in a little while – come take a look at the Fall refresh.

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Good API design is essential to an API being used. The design of an API can be extremely daunting when you are just starting out with a new service so here are a few tips that can help you along the way to build a good, usable API. Use your own API. The very best…

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I recently finished reading Prey by Michael Crichton. I’m a big Crichton fan for nearly no other reason than because my first book that I ever read, on my own without the nagging of any teachers or parents, was Jurassic Park. That and he knows how to write a book that makes you want to…

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