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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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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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