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Powncing your Flickr photos automagically
The moment I saw how Pownce handled links to Flickr photos (here is my first Flickr photo that I Pownced) I knew I had to modify a script that I found and had modified for Twitter. The script would automatically "tweet" when I posted a photo to Flickr using my iPhone. The script isn’t anything […]
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Giving into community pressure
Have you ever asked yourself why you belong to a particular service on the web? Perhaps you are the type of person that belongs to every single one, and so maybe a better question for you would be, why do you use one more than another? I recently gave Pownce a spin for a few […]
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Crawdad
Date taken: March 09, 2007 An uneaten crawdad. In honor of SXSW. Also found in this post.
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Weigh in: February 26, 2008
You may have noticed over the past several weeks I’ve been twittering my weigh in numbers on Tuesdays. This is because since the end of November I’ve been back on the diet. Two factors spurred me to get back on the diet. The first was a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with some friends to see […]
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Viddling around on Net@Night
Last night I had the privilege of representing Viddler on Net@Night, part of the TWiT Netcast Network, with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur. Recording episode 44 was a lot of fun. I hadn’t been on, or produced, a podcast in audio format in a very long time. Listen right here! We were able to cover […]
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Making a macro lens and a light for the iPhone
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] What do geeks do when they have a little free time on their hands? They accessorize! On Sunday I found myself wanting to play with my iPhone’s camera. Since getting the iPhone, and even more since I because posting mobile photos to Flickr, I’ve wanted to try out new ways of distorting, […]
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All photos now available for iPhone
Something I’ve wanted to do since launching the Photos section of my site was to offer each of them as backgrounds for iPhone. I’m happy to say that I’ve finally gotten around to doing just that. You’ll notice in the upper right hand corner of each photo’s page is a small icon of an iPhone. […]
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A little bit about basketball
Basketball has been some part of my life, big or small, since I was very young. I’ve never been any good at it really, but that’s another story. As an early teen I would go to the elementary school playground in the morning and not return until it was dark. Summers came and went, meals […]
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Publicly testing Viddler’s video commenting plugin for WordPress
Do you "follow" me on Twitter? If you do, then you definitely know that over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a video commenting plugin for WordPress powered by Viddler’s API. Update: This plugin is now available to everyone! I’m happy to announce that as of ten minutes ago, we’ve distributed a private-beta […]
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Lenoir Turnpike
Date taken: November 10, 2007 An intersection in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Muddy maze
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Date taken: October 20, 2007 As I recall, this was an understatement.
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Pumpkin patch
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Date taken: October 20, 2007 A pretty well picked patch of large pumpkins.
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Learning how to respond to downtime
If you run a web service, I want you to take a moment to learn from the recent response by 37signals regarding their 2hours of downtime they had the other day. Here is what I said about it on my linklog. "37signals responds to downtime, perfectly. They start with an explanation of what happened, then […]
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Going mobile with my iPhone photos
Flickr is in a short list of my most-frequented, and favorite, web applications. That being said, once I setup my Photos section I began to only use my Flickr account to comment on my Flickr contact’s photos. Recently I decided that, instead of allowing my Flickr account to go to waste, I would use it […]
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Llewelyn Moss
Date taken: September 2, 2007 This moss was pwning the sedimentary rock.
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Predicting the weather is no easy task
While poking around my local news station’s web site this afternoon to see how much snow we’d be getting, and when it would fall, I managed to find a thoughtful nugget left by Tom Clark – the lead Meteorologist at WNEP. I thought I’d quote the entire thing here, because I think we can all […]
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Safe passage
Date taken: January 11, 2008 A passage between 50-something and 50-something streets in New York City.
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Pusher
Date taken: January 11, 2008 This Coca-Cola delivery man was working hard in New York City.
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The Photos index gets a new look
When I launched the Photos section of this site in September 2007 (wow, time flies) I had said that I wanted to spruce up the index page once I thought I had published enough photos to make it look nice. "The index page is no where near completed but I wanted to have at least […]
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Our fourth season premier LOST invitations
By now anyone that we’ve invited to watch the season premier of LOST with us this year has gotten their invitations in the mail. So it should be safe to write this post and make it public, I hope. Eliza and I wanted to invite a few of our friends over and I thought it’d […]
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From the stairs
Date taken: January 5, 2008 A view down the Ben Franklin Pky. from the stairs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Tharrrr be ads on this herrrre site!
So I couldn’t come up with an exciting way to tell you that I’m testing out Google Adsense on my blog for the months of January and February. Sue me. So here is how the ads work, why I’m doing it, and what my goals are. How my system of ad placement works I believe […]
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A real beer
Date taken: November 3, 2007 Anything with the word "light" or "lite" need not apply.
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Cow go moo
Date taken: November 3, 2007 The camera shutter inspired a sudden movement with each photo. Moo.
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A fan’s view
Date taken: November 26, 2007 A foggy view of the field. (unknown subject)
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A leisurely stroll
Date taken: November 26, 2007 Not a care in the world.
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Downtown Pittsburgh at night
Date taken: November 26, 2007 Walking through the wet streets.
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Grandview
Date taken: November 26, 2007 Cement typography.
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Huddle up
Date taken: November 26, 2007 Big Ben directing traffic. They needed, and got, a first down.
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Looking up Mt. Washington
Date taken: November 26, 2007 Right on schedule.
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So, I posted some photos from Pittsburgh after all
At the end of November I said none of my photos from Pittsburgh were "worthy of publishing" to my photolog. Well, I decided to just not care so much and publish them anyways – partly because I want to share them – and partly because I need to be a little less paranoid about that […]
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Straight down
Date taken: November 26, 2007 Riding up to Mt. Washington.
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McHollywood
Date taken: December 1, 2007 McDonald’s – Hollywood style.
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You, in the back
Date taken: December 1, 2007 E.T. phones home. Maybe he didn’t like the movie.
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We’re bringing TUG.n back
I enjoy writing. I don’t think I’m particularly great at it but I enjoy it nonetheless. When asked what I’d do if I wasn’t doing what I am doing now – I’ll usually say that I’d like to either write Macintosh software or write for a newspaper. For those of you that do not know, […]
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Bocce
Date taken: July 23, 2006 A near tie.
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I’ve deleted my MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts
In January of this year I signed up to MySpace and I’ve logged in about a half-dozen times since to check messages, reply to comments, and upload a few profile photos. Shortly after that I signed up to Facebook and did just about the same thing. I logged in from time-to-time to catch up on […]
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Ben Franklin Pky.
Date taken: September 7, 2007 A view from 20 floors above the Ben Franklin Parkway and Cherry St. intersection in Philadelphia.
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Shooting Danny
Date taken: December 1, 2007 Dan, shooting some of these photos. Taken with iPhone.
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Should I block Google Images search?
Lately, and especially since I launched the photos section of this site, I’ve been getting a lot of traffic from Google Images search. At first I thought it kind of neat that people were searching for images, or photos, and ending up finding my site in the results. But then once the traffic began to […]
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Hollywood Chopper
Date taken: December 1, 2007 They have a better view than I did.
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When good photos go bad
Have you ever taken any photos that looked good in the viewfinder, or on your digital camera’s LCD screen, but when you saw them full sized ended up being rather bad? Or, perhaps you wished that your shot only had some minor framing adjustments? Recently I took a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Steelers […]
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NYC 11/07
Date taken: November 08, 2007 Burger King. INTERNET.
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Should cows breathe underwater?
Photo credit: Austin Baker (zoom) It is a question that has been passed down from generation-to-generation. Scholars and philosophers have lost sleep, blood, sweat, and tears to find the answer but have been as yet unsuccessful. Until now. My friend Austin Baker has setup a site where the people can vote on this issue. We […]
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Quarters Only
Date taken: November 10, 2007 1. Drop coin in slot. 2. Pull handle down all the way – let go. 3. To clear vision – turn red knob.
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PZD
Date taken: November 12, 2007 Peter was running out of tokens.
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An odd Safari mobile tab bug
While my friend Chris Masto, whom I met through Viddler, and I waited to go to lunch on Thursday in New York City he mentioned to me how much he likes to use Hahlo as his Twitter application of choice on his iPhone. Chris was probably the tenth person in a week to tell me […]
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50mm Pookers
Date taken: November 3, 2007 We love our Pookers.
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Tickle the ivories
Date taken: November 3, 2007 Playing the piano while not crushing her fingers proved to be a challenge.
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I love this pole
Date taken: October 20, 2007 Not sure what all the fuss was about. I mean, it was just a pole.
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