Year: 2011

I’ve already said all I’ve wanted to say about why I don’t think Tumblr’s team and investors should be focused solely on traffic. But, it appears they still are. Bijan Sabet, partner at Spark Capital and one of the lead investors in Tumblr, today on his tumblog: "i gotta talk to @davidkarp about this. if…

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The last time I did The Diet I had a "gain week" on the second week. This time it took me 6 weeks to have a "gain week". The reasons? The excuses? They are many. Ridiculously cold weather, the NFL playoffs, eating well, etc. But none of those really matter. Having a "gain week" isn’t…

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Not many people know how well suited Viddler‘s platform is for developing on top of. Kyle Slattery and I are heading to Florida in a few weeks to attend Magic Ruby to let some talented Ruby developers know just that. We’ve set up a special page on Viddler just for Magic Ruby to help let…

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As I just announced on the Viddler blog, Apostrophe – the amazing CMS built by my friends at Punk Avenue, now includes deep support for Viddler. Huzzah!

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m not sure I dig this (as I think it removes the entire point of an iPad) but I will give 100 points for style to the iPad Keyboard Case that effectively turns the iPad into a laptop.

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Half the distance to the goal. NFL referees usually use this term as a unit of measure for a penalty against the defense. Depending on what that goal may be, a first down or the end zone, the distance differs. In this case, it is exactly 20 pounds, and the defense is my fat. Today…

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I have to say, this makes very little sense. It is the Chrome team’s prerogative to add or remove any feature from their browser that they’d like to but the reasons they’ve given simply do not make much sense. At least not from my desk or the desk’s of others. John Gruber, as he typically…

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This week I rested on my laurels just a bit. I didn’t work out a single time (other than my weekly basketball routine) and I even drank a few beers. I think I have a fairly good excuse about the beer though – I went to the Eagles vs. Packers playoff game. However, that is…

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Tomorrow my parents will have just hit their 42nd wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary to them. /photo credit: Peter Devroe.

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Taken in February 2009 in [Carwanna in Carbondale, PA](http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&expIds=17259,27586,27856,28060&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&cp=22&qe=Y2FyYXdhbm5hIGNhcmJvbmRhbGUsIHBh&qesig=rnnUGI7sMdrWWB_iEJN9KA&pkc=AFgZ2tl_Ea3FNMFocT7IS2XjL-tw25HxZAjPAkR_WWCzogwGUTX19RvVMqZDTJUKRIe6KD1TksqZKya4PPGRWxwZrPfGGijd1A&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=carwanna carbondale pa&fb=1&gl=us&hq=carwanna&hnear=Carbondale, PA&cid=11571800602353308970).

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every since seeing Tron Legacy I’ve wanted Flynn’s computer. From what I’ve heard on the Interwebs it runs Sun Solaris. Since I’m a Mac guy maybe I can have my Terminal look like The Grid’s UI without needing to run an entirely different OS. I’m basing this style solely off of this…

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One of the fun parts of making wine is making the wine label. Eliza really loves having a wine label per wine that we make. For the most part we’ve been able to do this with any of the good wine batches we’ve made. Here are a few of them.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So it turns out my fears have been abated. The Mac App Store is great. Simply run Software Update on any Macintosh running Snow Leopard.

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How quickly things change! I’ve been praising Tumblr over the last several months because it has been an excellent tool to build The Watercolor Gallery with. And it still is, except since I began building The Watercolor Gallery Tumblr has been, well, tumbling down in the minds and hearts of some of their core users.…

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