Blog
Writing helps me think more clearly. I write about what interests me such as blogging, photography, technology, social media, and my personal creative projects.
Series: Diversions, WIS, typicalday
Topics: blogging, photography, programming
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OpenRoad.tv tours ILM campus
Drool. To be more specific, Open Road TV visits San Francisco’s Presidio, which is now a National Park, and goes on to explain its many changes over the years. One of the places they stop, is at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic campus. "Explore San Francisco’s fabled Presidio, now a national park, and go
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Re-watching Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark debuted in movie theaters in 1981, when I was only one year old. I don’t remember the first time, nor how many times, I saw this movie – but I do know that I loved it as a child, and now I know I really enjoy it as an adult too. Sure
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Sprint vs. Apple, round one, FIGHT!
Coming this summer: Sprint vs. Apple. Instinct vs. iPhone. Who has got the guts to win? I’ve seen this reported in a few places, that Sprint is going to spend $100,000,000 on a marketing campaign aimed directly against the iPhone. Why am I the only one that loves this? For the first time in nearly
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Dan Phiffer’s Web site
I am not even sure how I came across this site. A few days ago I found myself browsing Dan Phiffer’s Web site and I have to say, it is probably one of the more innovative sites I’ve seen in a while. There are some drawbacks, however: After visiting the site numerous times you kinda
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Indy catch up
Catching up on Indiana Jones, in style.
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Leopard’s Spotlight window isn’t as good as Tiger’s was
I don’t think I’m alone in this thinking either. On Mac OS X Tiger, when you searched for something, the list that appeared is much like the list that appears now, under Leopard. Leopard’s speed improvements for these searches, when compared to Tiger, is undeniable and welcome. Where Spotlight in Leopard begins to break down
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An electrical storm on Saturn
Have you checked the weather today? Oh, but have you checked the weather on Saturn today? Neither did I. But it seems, according to yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, courtesy of NASA, that there is an electrical storm on Saturn that has lasted at least 3 months. Saturn. Early March, 2008. Extraterrestrial storms are not
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Indiana Jones desktop and icons
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The crew over at the Iconfactory, who are the creators of Twitterrific among many other things, are doing a tribute to Indiana Jones this month. Here is a snap of my desktop, which I took using Skitch, to see the icons and one of their desktops in action: You too can sport
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The CSS Selector proposal explained for CSS noobs
I am not well versed in CSS. I can get around. I can make a site look pretty good in Safari and horrible in Internet Explorer (look at this site in IE for a great example). But I’m a hacker at best. I fiddle with CSS until something looks right, I don’t follow conventions or
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Bethlehem, PA
Taken while walking to get coffee.
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MNF – Buffalo, NY
I am neither a Cowboys nor Bills fan, but I still went to a Monday Night Football game there. Must have been for booze.
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Pittsburgh beer
Too many choices? I’d like to think just enough.
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Sameer Barkawi reviews Iron Man
My friend Sameer Barkawi, distinguished actor, and fellow writer at TUG.n (though I’ve been absent for a while) recently jotted his thoughts down about Iron Man. Here are a few key points from the review. "Would I recommend this film? I think so. It’s not a strong recommendation, though. Consider it an appetizer for the
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Table at Panera
One of the many days of working at Panera. This one Eliza, Chris, and Andrew were there.
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The missing iPhone ringtone
You know that ringtone you hear in the iPhone ads? It is the same ringtone that is not included on your iPhone! I have no idea why, either. I just downloaded it, dragged it into iTunes, synced it onto my iPhone, and tested the ringtone. It is great. It is loud. It progressively gets louder
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The number one
The first floor in a parking garage.
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The Ta-da Lists widget is down captain Keegan!
Keegan Jones‘ (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support. It works beautifully. When I think of something while I’m on the go, I can add a ta-da list item with my iPhone painlessly. When I’m back at my
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Tomorrow’s news
Taken somewhere around 2am while walking in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Dolores Park
San Francisco from Dolores Park in July 2007. Another beauty from the iPhone archives.
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21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs
Reminders are good. Learning new things is good. So you might look at this list, of 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs, as either a list of reminders or a list of new things to learn. Either way, it is good. I think the most important ones, for me, are perspective, framing, intentional empty space,
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Nope, no marsh to be found
Yesterday I went to shoot photos just off of a highway near my house, a place that I have wanted to shoot for at least a month. Each time I drove by this spot, in the little view of the area that I had while exiting the highway, it looked like there was a marsh
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Photoshop my friend Andrew
Ok so, the album cover art wasn’t real, if you haven’t already figured that out. I had a lot of fun for the few minutes it took to put the cover art together and so I thought you might want to also take a crack at it. Photoshop my friend Andrew I’ve created a zip
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The longest set of directions on Google Maps
The image above is, supposedly, the longest set of driving directions that you can find on Google Maps. Some guy named Alan Taylor has taken the time to figure this out, and although you could custom drag a longer set of driving directions, he’s pretty sure this is the farthest one. While other countries, and
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Andrew Nelson, recording artist
My friend Andrew approached me to do something I’ve wanted to do for some time; design album cover art. Andrew’s new album, gonna scccrrrape you sucka, drops in a couple of months and so I thought I’d give you all a preview of the cover: Parental discretion is advised. Look for gonna scccrrrape you sucka
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Canon Digital Rebel XTi
Finally taking the time to go through each page in the manual. Eliza and I have had this camera since last fall and although I’ve been using it, I’m just now getting a chance to really kick the setting’s tires.
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Embracing your limitations
In the world of photography there is a mantra that you’ll sometimes here about; embracing limitations. It is where, even though you are only equipped with a camera that isn’t feature rich or technologically advanced, you embrace those limitations and still create interesting images. You come to grips with the things that your camera can
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Please use the suggestion and money boxes
Help expand my echo, echo, echo chamber, please. I try to link to things I find interesting in hopes that you too will find them interesting. However, my view of the world is as narrow as my own two eyes – and so I’m hoping you’ll help me find even more interesting things to link
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Apple’s iPhone takes Flickr top spot among camera phones!
All of the mobile photos you see here on my site are taken with an Apple iPhone and then emailed to my Web site for publishing. It appears that Flickr users are also using their iPhone’s to upload photos to the Web. As of: May 1, 2008 Somewhat recently, according to this graph (pictured), the
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Public night at the Astronomical Observatory
Last night Keystone College’s Thomas G. Cupillari Astronomical Observatory was open to the public, and so Eliza, Chris, Andrew, and I took the short ride out to take advantage of the exceptionally clear skies. I could not be happier with my decision to go. We had a great time learning about, and gazing at, our
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All I know about Moscow, I learned from a book
Sadly, the title of this note, is mostly true. The World’s Cities: Moscow. To help quench my perpetual thirst for knowledge about things I know nothing about (the very definition of learning, I’d guess) I read a book (pictured) about Moscow. This book is not very long, is filled with illustrations, and was written prior
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Galaxies Gone Wild!
GGW! Normally that accronym would be reserved for late-night commercials about incredibly inexpensive DVD-sets with future women that will sue Joe Francis. But not this time. This time GGW refers to NASA’s celebration of the Hubble Telescope being launched 18 years ago! And so they’ve put together a site of awe-inspiring images that Hubble has
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Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Jeffery Zeldman on the trend of personal sites, or the one-stop URL for each person’s published goods online, going the way of the dinosaur and how more and more people are publishing their goods on many different services. I’d be remiss not to mention my goal of Bringing it all together and how I’m getting pretty
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The Mended Spiderweb series
I know it isn’t even 10am yet, but lets just call this the "link of the day" shall we? Nina Katchadourian decided, in 1998 no less, to repair broken spiderwebs around the home she was living in at the time. She used red sewing thread and a few dabs of glue. Here is what she
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
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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Eight new header images!
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
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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Newton rec
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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Sake!
Date taken: April 28, 2008 Dinner at Mirakuya in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Delicious.