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Date taken: June 19, 2008 My new nephew, Gavin, born on June 18. His story has yet to be written, yet everyone is already talking about him. (more photos)

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Sarah Buynovksy, reporting about a new safety system at a regional airport near me, wrote what I think is a pretty well written and succinct article explaining the system and what it could mean should an accident happen at the airport. But then she throws in two quotes from people in the area (no doubt […]

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Today is the first day of Summer here in North America.  The sun will shine longer today than any other day this year.  But one must not forget about the rest of the world.  Those on the other side of our planet are experiencing the direct opposite; the first day of Winter and the shortest […]

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Today I did a search on my site for Vader and came up empty-handed.  I just couldn’t stand for that and so I’m posting this photo of me, taken by Daniel Nicolas, with a storm trooper, Darth Vader, and Boba Fett. As a side note: I paid them $5 to take this photograph.  Vader, Fett, […]

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Date taken: April 13, 2008. A vine post near Seneca Lake in New York. This particular vineyard and wineary had each of their grape vines marked for the type of grape that they had planted.  These few rows were marked with Gewurztraminer.  I remember the wines here being very odd in color and not great […]

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Yesterday I saw a link from Jason Kottke’s blog to a trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a new movie starring Brad Pitt.  I immediately watched the trailer and was intrigued by both the style of the movie and the story.  Jason also linked to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald of […]

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Actually, the whole stopping part pretty much eludes him. My friend Chris Fehnel isn’t so good at landing jumps.  You may remember we did some jumping at the State Park a few weeks back.  The photo of us may make it appear like we’re all great athletes and that our skills are top-notch.  Not so […]

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Christopher Orr "reviews" The Happening in a different way than we’re used to; by giving away spoilers on purpose.  His reason for doing so? Because he believes you shouldn’t have to see the movie in order to talk about how bad it was. "M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, The Happening, is not merely bad. It […]

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I don’t know how many applications you have installed on your computer but I have enough where there is an update to one of them at least once per week and often times more. Due to this barrage of updates yesterday’s release of Firefox 3.0 may just seem like another run-of-the-mill update to one of […]

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It is a race that has an end at 0.00.  Well, not really.  But you’d have to think that the speed at which a browser can render a certain amount of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (the bits that make up every Web page on the Internet) has to have a floor.  Meaning, at some point […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] When Apple released the latest update for Mac OS X Leopard, with the version number of 10.5.3, they updated the way that Spaces worked.  As John Gruber pointed out, Spaces now can better focus on "task separation" rather than "application separation". Here is a quick overview and history for you.  Spaces is a […]

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Update: Somewhat unrelated, new post called How to: Delete photos from within Smart Albums in iPhoto. For an entire year I’ve wanted to be able to do this easily. And I think I’ve now found the best way to do this without the possible side-effect of losing all of your photos on your iPhone. One […]

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You may have already seen this, but if you’re thinking about buying or upgrading to an iPhone 3G next month, you need to see this. Gizmodo took the time to compare the prices, monthly plans, and plan features for the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G, and the leading Smart Phones on AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. […]

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For the last few days my iPhone’s home screen has been acting up.  The bottom row of icons has been completely unresponsive.  Since they are my least used icons, I only noticed once and a while, and they seemed to work intermittently. Today though, the problem finally showed how bad it was.  The bottom row […]

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Soccer fan? Well my friend and fellow Viddler team member Kyle Slattery just released two bots for Twitter that you can follow to get both play-by-play and goal-only updates. "Now you can get Euro 2008 right on Twitter. For every update from Soccernet’s GameCasts, just follow @euro2008cup, and if you only want to get updates about goals, follow […]

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Perhaps better known as the Rosy Maple Moth, this moth was just outside our apartment building door. My friend Chris just showed up for dinner and Game 4 of the NBA Finals and immediately he said there was a cool looking moth outside.  I grabbed my camera and bolted for the door. On my finger, […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all […]

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Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I […]

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This is a simple tip on how to "follow" someone on Twitter without actually "following" them.  On Twitter I only follow a select few people.  This helps to cut down on the noise and keep me relatively productive. However, there are some Twitter accounts that I’d like to follow, but not "follow".  Take for instance […]

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Back to back links to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball?  The way I figure it, I owe him a few thousand links to make up for his one link to my site. Recently, and I’m not sure exactly when, John updated the logo graphic on his site. Something he doesn’t do all that often. This time […]

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Engadget‘s Ryan Block, by Apple’s invitation, was able to spend a few minutes with an iPhone 3G.  I’m linking to this both because I think Ryan’s notes are interesting, and because I’m surprised Apple had people see them when even Steve Jobs didn’t have one on-stage during his Keynote. Here are some highlights from Ryan’s […]

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John Gruber, sole author of Daring Fireball my favorite weblog on the Internet, states what might seem as obvious to some – but I’m sure will be missed somewhat by the mass-media. He sums up his thoughts of the lower-cost iPhone 3G, and the iPhone SDK, this way: "The physical phone is not the story. […]

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OS X 10.5.3, also known as Leopard and the current Operating System I’m running on my laptop as I write this entry, is a fantastic Operating System.  OS X, since 10.0, has been a leader in the areas of ease of use, security, user interface, speed, and features. Since Apple switched to OS X, just […]

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Yesterday I wrote a last minute wish list for this year’s WWDC announcements for a few reasons, one of which was simply to be able to compare the list with what actually was announced during the Keynote. Today I find myself in the same state as I was yesterday, still wishing. Apple’s Keynote did, in fact, […]

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These are not predictions.  I have no inside information. I just have needs, wants, and aspirations.  And I’m hoping that this year’s WWDC, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference happening on Monday in San Francisco, as I’ve hoped so many times in the past will help me fill some of them. I’m going to start with something […]

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The photo doesn’t do the view justice, as usual.

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I took a quick snap of the poster with my iPhone and now it is my iPhone’s background.

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37Signals, a software development company out of Chicago, Illinois, recently launched an affiliate program.  I thought this a perfect time for me to let you know about three of their flagship products.  Oh, and I’m not telling you about these just because of their affiliate program, I’ve mentioned 37Signals before. Basecamp – Project management made incredibly […]

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We were able to give away a fair amount of Viddler tshirts, in only a few minutes, at the DiggNation Meetup in Brooklyn, New York to those waiting in line for the live taping of DiggNation.  We did have one stipulation, however, that you must wear the Viddler tshirt right now in order to get […]

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Revision 3 folks are setting up for DiggNation. 1000 people are going to fit in here? Editor’s note: It turns out that 2,000 people showed up at the door.  The Revision 3 crew really takes setting up everything very seriously and they did a great job accommodating for both the recording of a live podcast but also […]

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Joanne from Rocketboom, though they were recording something for Internet Week not Rocketboom,  interviews Brian Brushwood (@shwood on Twitter) from Scam School. Shortly after this interview Brian did the opening act for the live taping of DiggNation and did an incredible job.  Fire eating, nails into his eye, and Mr. Happy Pants.  He is definitely […]

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Waiting for the bus in Hellertown, PA with Rob and Kyle. We’re headed to New York City for the DiggNation Meetup.

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The iPhone helped the cabby find Brooklyn, Ha!

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This guy brought his light-up pins.  He was actually very, very good.  I don’t think he does this professionally but just sorta likes to entertain.

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I’m going to attempt to keep this short and simple, because so many others have already done a great job documenting, giving examples of use, and extending oEmbed that it’d be silly of me to rewrite all of that here. However, since I’ve never mentioned oEmbed here on my site, I wanted to quickly go […]

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Some 14yr. old skateboarder dude was sleeping next to me.  His head kept bobbing and hitting me, so Kyle laughed.

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Live taping of DiggNation in Brooklyn, NY. Supposedly 2,000 people!  This was shot from the VIP section, which was pretty close, while I felt sorry for the really big fans of DiggNation being squashed all the way into the back of Studio B.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m writing this under the more than likely false assumption that the directors of WingFest 2008 will actually read it. That the people responsible for the event that took place this past May in Moosic, Pennsylvania on Montage Mountain are savvy enough to open a Web browser and search the Internet using […]

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