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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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This is great.  If you haven’t seen it, or seen my link to it, Google App Engine is a new service provided by Google to help scale web applications built with, as of today, Python. Turns out a few people would like to see PHP support as well. Source: I WANT PHP.

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Now you might understand why the links and notes have died down here on my site lately – it is because I’ve been hard at work getting Viddler’s video commenting plugin, the one we tested here on my site, updating it to be compatible with WordPress 2.5. We didn’t stop at just squashing a few […]

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A few of my geekiest and most nit-pickiest brain cells just exploded. After reading about Safari’s odd tab dragging behavior, on two different Web sites on the same day, I am not sure I can take much more. Both Pierre Igot and John Gruber cover this topic in great detail; the fact that the first […]

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Working at Panera Bread.

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Office space is always being redefined – this is no exception. A company in London has put their offices, which are somehow perched atop a building, inside what they call "tube carriages". I think they are trains or subway cars – but I suppose in London their called Tube Carriages. Learn something new every day. […]

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I am starting to get annoyed with these. My rechargeable batteries don’t seem to last as long as I’d like them to.

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At nearly 60F, I had to get outdoors, even if it were only for 20 minutes or so.

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From the ever-growing departments of "I wish I thought of this" and "I may even still do this myself" comes this: Someone left a disposable camera on a benched, tied by a simple string, with a note that read: "Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So […]

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John Mollo, Academy Award winning costume designer, is interviewed by Lightsabre.co.uk. He says this about his work on Star Wars. "I fins I am very self-critical when I see my work on the screen. In Star Wars I was quite pleased with the officers, guards, pilots, ground crew etc, both Imperial and rebels, for which […]

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Date taken: April 8th, 2008 Old, abandoned, and abused.

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TwitterLocal allows you to enter a city, state, and/or postal code and find people Twittering within 1, 5, 10, or 20 miles from you. A few neat things I’ve noticed while giving this service a spin: It works. Might sound strange but a lot of times when you try tools like this, they seldom work […]

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It has been way too long! As a stroke of complete coincidence, Eliza brought home some White Castle burgers for lunch today!

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Kyle Slattery, Viddler’s Lead Social Developer, recently gave CakePHP a spin to see how it compared to Ruby on Rails – or at least how the MVC modularity of the two compared to each other. "Though CakePHP is lacking in a many areas where Rails really excels, I think it definitely has its place in […]

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Just released with only a limited number of applications being accepted at the moment: "Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications." Interesting tidbits upon first glance: Uses the Python programming language. 500Mb and ~5,000,000 for free! Sandbox: In other words, if someone’s applications […]

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To be completely honest, I’m no where near "done" on this redesign but spending a few minutes each day is just killing me. So I thought I’d do some live testing, and ask for some preliminary feedback. If you have anything you’d like to gripe about, please do so in the comments. Oh, and watch […]

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As a way to test mobile photos, again, here is a large orange 9 that sits somewhere in New York City. You might even see Viddler‘s newest Community Leader, Brandice, in there somewhere.

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Ranging from interesting to weird, the Consumer Reports Vintage photo gallery is an entertaining resource to look through. With images dating from the mid-1930s until the 1980s this gallery is a collection of some of the photos of the CR cataloging their research. They say these images show the "ingenuity of [their] testers". This one […]

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If you don’t read Daring Fireball already, you may consider this link also a recommendation to do so. In fact, I recommend becoming a member, and after you read John Gruber’s comparison of the Firefox 3 and Safari 3 browsers, you’ll know why. John does an excellent job reviewing these two applications based on a […]

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File this under amazingly creative. Japanese Barcodes, or at least some of them that are being handled with creative care, are being turned into works of art instead of just your run-of-the-mill bleh. There are several really great examples if you follow the link through. I think the first time I see this on a […]

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A "Sea Pig". Who hasn’t always wanted to be a marine biologist? Earth’s oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers are by far the largest untapped and ill-explored territory – which is what makes discoveries like the ones mention by this National Geographic article possible. "This sea cucumber—held by Sadie Mills of New Zealand’s National Institute of […]

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Ma.gnolia, my favorite social bookmarking service, recently switched from merely supporting OpenID to actually restricting all new user signups to use the authentication platform. This received a lot of attention – most good – while Matt Mullenweg (and others I’m sure) chimed in to say that this method shouldn’t be viewed as a good strategy […]

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TweetStats, a way to get all types of statistics for your Twitter account (or anyone else’s actually), has some interesting graphs by default. The one about interfaces (pictured), or "how you twittered" it could be called, seems to be a little inaccurate unless I’m completely mistaken. According the graph it says I’ve somehow interfaced with […]

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This list of college dropouts is particularly interesting because every single person on the list has an estimated net-worth in the billions. Most of the people on the list are vested mainly in the technology space while the only guy I don’t immediately recognize deals largely in Las Vegas real estate and hotels/casinos. "On the […]

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The eBay Ink blog is a really snazzy looking corporate blog for eBay, Inc. Doing some digging I see they are using WordPress for their site, but they lack the "powered by" link anywhere in the sidebar and/or footer. Source: eBay Ink » an inside look at the wide world of eBay, Inc..

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Want to get your team at work sick? Maybe a family member you owe a shot in the arm to? Look no further than Kissing with Ross. Source: Kissing with Ross. Via: Greg Storey.

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Fun and interesting little conversation going on over at Jason Kottke’s blog where people are chatting about words they pronounce wrong on purpose. Eliza and I do this too so it is nice to see that we’re not alone. One example would be the word ‘mitta’ for miss. Like; "mitta you". Do you say any […]

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Sameer Barkawi, actor My good friend Sameer Barkawi, who has been writing on TUG.n a little lately, has wrapped up shooting on what will be his movie debut. Sameer plays a homeless man. When Sameer came to visit us last month his hair was getting really long (not too much of a surprise if you […]

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Mirco-review: Excellent story but a very tough read. So tough, for me at least, that I didn’t finish it.

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Rob Goodlatte on letting go and not being so much of a perfectionist: "Stop being a perfectionist—just throw it out there and see what happens. It’s simple advice, but something that I’ve been ignoring for too long. Not every blog post will be your opus, not every design will be your masterpiece. Stressing over every […]

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It should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that I’m a geek. Sometimes I’m successful in hiding that fact and, well other times not so much. Well today I’m pleased to say that I got my geek on, on show #147 of the OtakuGeneration.net podcast. Weighing in at over 120Mb, this podcast is […]

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From the "An oldie but a goodie" department. In March of 2005 I saved myself $30 by not buying an iPod dock and building my own out of the box that the iPod came in. I remember this getting on tons of sites and spreading pretty quickly. "I thought it was a fun project, and […]

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Looking through Keegan’s now aptly named "The Great Springfield Coffee Tour" photoset I came across a link to theworkshop 308. On their site they have great photos showing off some of their unique products and I saw this photo (pictured) which reminded me of the Life Posters we used to put together. I’m wondering now […]

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Eliza made some milkshakes. Serious shake.

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