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I just have to link to this. A reporter from the NY Times was assaulted for trying to take photos of people putting up illegal posters. Here is why the reporter isn’t pressing charges: "While my assailant’s actions were frightening, they resulted in part from what he interpreted as provocation: that is, my taking pictures […]

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Rick Astley, interviewed by the LA Times, talks about "Rickrolling": "I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it,” Astley said. “But that’s what brilliant about the Internet." Yes, that is what is brilliant about the Internet, Rickrolling. (Source:Web Scout – Online Entertainment and Culture […]

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Although this link, specifically, is more about the cover of the book being revealed for the first time, I just wanted to say; Do want! (Source: Star Wars: Community The Complete Making of Indiana Jones Cover Revealed)

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Some buds are starting at the top of this Birch tree.

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You may have noticed a few new categories here lately. I’ve been making a few adjustments, tweaks, additions, and edits to this site since making my goal to bring everything together here. Here is how things are going down now, how each category will be used, and what the next steps are. Notes have been […]

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My friend Jon Christopher compares using Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3 Beta 4 as his primary browser and as a browser for developers to use to build their sites. He once again confirms that Firebug, a plugin for Firefox that aids developers in debugging their code, is the main reason many developers use it as […]

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My first post to Twitter, and I can’t believe I’m actually confessing this, was about watching Dancing with the Stars with Eliza. That was over a year and a half ago. As of today I’ve posted over 7,600 updates to Twitter and now have over 800 followers. When I first saw that I had nearly […]

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Richard Crowley, whom you may know as the Flickr guy behind the Flickr Uploader or perhaps from my Avalonstar miniPrix Kart racing video when I was in California last year for Wordcamp, has created a neat Fuse filesystem for Pownce. Essentially what this does is creates a "drive" on your computer that holds each of […]

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Albert Yee suggested some time ago that I subscribe to this photolog and I haven’t regretted it since. Source: Rion.nu a photoblog by Rion Nakaya.

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Sameer Barkawi, friend and fellow geek, provides a list of things for you to do besides seeing the movie 10,000 B.C. "1. Donate bone marrow. 2. Drink 2 gallons of milk in a single sitting. 3. Become an attack dog chew toy. 4. Host amateur acting workshops in your own home. 5. Join the Polar […]

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Another one of the examples from the video. Oh, and also a test.

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Beautiful day to ski. Too bad I don’t ski.

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Maybe it is usable later in the day.

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Immediately following my post about the iPhone macro lens my site nearly "went down" because of using up too much bandwidth. Shortly after that people were wondering why I hadn’t created a video demonstration of how it works. Well, here it is. Sorry for the quality of the video, it could have been better, but […]

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The photo I took in today’s video demo of the iPhone macro lens.

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Paul Stamatiou, on using the Macbook Air as his primary computer for a little over two weeks: "I have been able to do everything in my daily work on the Air. This includes using multiple spaces, constantly streaming iTunes radio music, using many tabs in Safari, casual Photoshop use, taking notes and recording lectures in […]

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Mike, from Project Pedal a video blog about a documentary, after being featured on Viddler by me, does a really great analysis of his experiences on various video sharing sites including YouTube, Blip, Viddler, and Vimeo. "It’s been interesting though seeing which sites generate the most feedback, interaction, conversations, etc." project pedal (blog): Quality vs […]

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It has my permission to go away now.

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I’m not sure if her intent was to have the same, yellowish hue across all of the photos but I think it adds something to them. They all feel warm, even though the weather seems cold. Also of note: I’ve been to New York City and somehow she’s found a few perspectives I’ve never been […]

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Date taken: January 11, 2008 Resting on a street lamp on the lower-east side of Central Park in New York City.

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Hitting ‘?’ at anytime during your use of Google Reader will display this, what I think is an, incredible HUD for Reader’s keyboard shortcuts. Google Reader’s Heads Up Display for Keyboard Shortcuts Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! When I saw this I immediately thought: "Wow, Google really gets this whole web application thing.". But what else […]

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Self proclaimed podcast about Technology in Philadelphia, Philly TIP, recently invited me to be on the show to talk about Viddler. Viddler has its headquarters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is only a hop, skip, and jump from Philadelphia, so we feel a lot of love coming out of Philadelphia for sure. Our topics of discussion […]

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The Lunchtime Leaders Podcast is a student run podcast where each month a team of students from James H. Moran Middle School, in Wallingford, Connecticut interview leaders about what it will take to be successful in the 21st Century. I can’t even begin to tell you how privileged I feel to have been considered a […]

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Importing Game 1 of a few friend’s league games. Makes me wanna go to and record Game 3. And yes, that is the Cocoon and Cocoon The Return DVD set.

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When I launched the photos section last September, I knew I’d be making incremental updates to how the site handled, displayed, and aggregated them compared to normal posts. I’ll be doing the same thing with mobile photos. Starting today, mobile photos that used to show up on my Flickr account, will now be on my […]

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Now you may navigate this site using your iPhone and/or iPod touch easier than ever before. Using the iwPhone plugin and theme, this site will now automatically display in an easy to use format when navigating the site using your iPhone and/or iPod touch. A few of this site’s features are missing, of course, but […]

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2-1. I managed to record both the first win and first loss.

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I’m writing this on my iPhone, using the WordPress plugin that changes the admin from its default style and layout to one that works on an iPhone. A few things that become apparent quickly is that the interface is pretty heavy, making load time a bit annoying. The interface is usable, but slow. Also typing […]

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These four TVs show weather, news, stock market information, company profiles, and much more. These are in the ViddlerHQ lobby.

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Ever since the day I began posting my photos to my site, rather than on a photo-sharing service like Flickr, I’ve had the desire to slowly bring all of my "stuff" onto my site rather than spread out through the Interwebs. As it stands I post what I’m currently doing to Twitter, I am testing […]

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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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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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Date taken: March 09, 2007 An uneaten crawdad. In honor of SXSW. Also found in this post.

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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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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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[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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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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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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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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Date taken: November 10, 2007 An intersection in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Date taken: October 20, 2007 As I recall, this was an understatement.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Date taken: October 20, 2007 A pretty well picked patch of large pumpkins.

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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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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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Date taken: September 2, 2007 This moss was pwning the sedimentary rock.

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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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Date taken: January 11, 2008 A passage between 50-something and 50-something streets in New York City.

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Date taken: January 11, 2008 This Coca-Cola delivery man was working hard in New York City.

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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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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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