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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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Just a quick note to say that this site now has a total of nine header images.  To see them all, just refresh the page and a new, random header image should be loaded in. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep this set, but I do have some goals in mind with the random […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington […]

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Where I sometimes shoot the rock. It doesn’t look like much, but it is always available, free, and never crowded.

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Date taken: April 28, 2008 Dinner at Mirakuya in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Delicious.

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Ansel Adams, considered one of the best American West photographers, had a studio which is still owned by his family and is named The Ansel Adams Gallery, now has a blog.  Still very fresh, this blog is cataloging some of the activities of the studio, its members, and fans of Ansel Adams. I am of […]

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Since it has no name, that is what I’m going to call it. Either way, it is darned good. Simple. Refreshing. And contains vodka.

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You know when a photo gradually gets more "blurry" as the distance from the camera increases?  That’s the Depth of Field.  Here is a better way to describe it. "Depth of field is the range of distance around the focal plane which is acceptably sharp.  The depth of field varies depending on camera type, aperture […]

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Some time before the turn of this last century I began to pay much more attention to my writing style in everyday communications.  My email correspondence needed more attention to detail, editing, and focus.  This is something I’m still striving to get better at, but some times the constant ticking of the clock inhibits any progress on […]

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Timeframe is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.", and is open-source.  It is thoroughly impressive, a great implementation, and works best in Safari! Timeframe demo The demonstration (pictured) is by far the best calendar "widget" I’ve seen in a browser.  One of my favorite things is the date range tools which is where Timeframe strived to […]

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Under I-78 between Hellertown and Bethlehem, PA the trees are blooming.

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The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is a natural phenomenon worth researching. The hows, whys, and whens are not as stunning as just sitting back and looking at it though. This series of photos gives us a glimpse of what the Aurora looks like from Murmansk, Russia. I’ve never had the opportunity to shoot the […]

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This Sunday my friend Chris Fehnel will be helping out a few of his friends, by walking in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s "Walk to Cure Diabetes".  Chris is trying to raise just $100 through donations to "sponsor his walk" which will then be given to the JDRF as a donation during Sunday’s walk. If you have anything […]

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Fun, harmless, hack.  You can hack Pownce’s view count on links by clicking anywhere near the link.  Here is a video (that you can see on Pownce) to show you how. [viddler id-4ae7133c h-297 w-340] Hack away people!

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When the weather is perfect and you need a quick break from work, tennis is a good choice. Thanks for taking me along Andrew!

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Date taken: April 18, 2008 A storm drain.

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Date taken: April 18th, 2008 The trees are waking up.

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech\_news/Not\_seeing\_your\_Twitter\_updates\_Here\_s\_the\_very\_simple\_fix‘; Over the past few days the number of Twitter statuses popping up from those I follow on Twitter have been scarce.  At first I thought it was because I was beta testing the latest version of Hahlo.  Then, I thought it was a problem with the API and so Twitterrific would also […]

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It may not be good for the body, but it is good for the soul. Now to play basketball to work it off.

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So glad I took my telescope out for a few minutes. Really nice weather and a clear sky for a good look at the moon.

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My current pair of basketball sneakers. Review: Great ankle support. Outside of sneakers holding up really well. Inside of sneaker is beginning to bunch up. I’ll update this post to say how old they are when I figure that out.

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A shot from this past Wednesday. I get a lot of work done in the energy of Panera Bread.

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Going to be great.

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Essentially this is saying that runners can go both ways. Err.

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One of these beautys could be your’s for just 50c.

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My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, who you may know as the host of WineLibrary TV, is now a published author and you can pre-order his book Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World on Amazon. Gary’s book is currently hovering at number 101, which will probably change before I even publish […]

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In very early January I decided to run an experiment where I’d put Adsense on this site for a few months, not do anything differently than I normally would, and see how much a personal site could earn.  Although I only planned on having ads on this site for January and February, they were so […]

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Robert Scoble recently quipped that Israel is too far away from Mike Arrington’s house.  To qualify that headline; Mike Arrington founded TechCrunch, a web site that covers news related to business on the Web mainly in Silicon Valley. Scoble’s argument is that companies doing really great things in Israel may, or may not be, getting […]

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Why, oh, why did I ever stop reading John "RobotJohnny" Martz’s blog?  Somehow in my efforts to slim down my number of feeds, his site got the axe, and hasn’t returned – until today. John recently redrew his mother’s entire yearbook from 1968.  Or, at least the portraits therein.  I like how he described his […]

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I’m building a complete developer resource, piece by piece, for developers that are interested in building on top of Viddler’s platform.  But, I can’t do it alone, so I’m asking fellow developers to help me build out a "developer resource roadmap". If you are a developer, whether or not you are interested in building an […]

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[viddler id-79cb0e9a h-211 w-300] Leo Laporte recently went to Tasmania on a photography adventure. Sponsored by O’Reilly and Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure on the Australian island seemed to be a blast (and you can consider me jealous). Recently Leo went through his bag and showed off his photo kit that he […]

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Slave Bale? Doesn’t this toy look like ________? How many times have you said that? Topless Robot has found more than a few Star Wars toys that unintentionally resemble celebrities. "But what about the toys that unintentionally resemble celebrities? In its early years, the Star Wars line suffered from a lot of terrible likenesses, and […]

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Nicholas White was finished with his cigarette break.  Little did he know that he’d be taking the longest cigarette break he’s ever taken.  Trapped in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building’s elevator Car No. 30, while security cameras captured every moment, Nicholas spent nearly two days in October of 1999 waiting for rescue from his prison. Even though this video is […]

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Whoa. This must have taken some major investigatory work. Real gumshoe-type investigating. It appears as though TV shows, merely 12 to 18 hours after broadcasting on network television, are up, online, and ready to watch via "video sharing sites". I am not sure how they did their research, but they could have just asked me. […]

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Webware’s Joshua Lowensohn pretty thoroughly covers and endorses the use of Twinkle. Twinkle is an application for the iPhone, currently you have to have "Jail Broken" your iPhone to install it, that is a location-aware Twitter client. Not only does Twinkle allow you to follow your friends, it also allows you to "follow" those geographically […]

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Over the last few days, and even for the last few months since the rumor began, I’ve been asked countless times what it means to Viddler that Flickr just jumped into the video-sharing space. So, instead of answering the questions one-by-one, or avoiding the topic publicly altogether, I think it is time to address the […]

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Besides being cool, a gorgeous day.

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Sparkling wines and Sherry.

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Eating lunch during a wine tour break.

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My first Macintosh computer was a white iMac G4 with a beautiful 17" floating screen above, what some have referred to as an upside-down bowl, a computer enclosed in a half-circle case.  It was gorgeous really.  My wife Eliza bought it for me for our anniversary and I used it as my main computer for […]

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