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Date taken: August 27, 2001 Eyes forward.

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Date taken: September 21, 2001 Red. White. Black. Blue.

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Date taken: July 2, 2001 Just finding his legs.

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I love good movies. I’m sure you do too. But, I also like really bad movies. So much so that my friend Chris and I sometimes rent movies that we know are rated by critics and movie-goers as being absolutely not worth the time to watch. 2007 Movie of the Year I believe Dragon Wars […]

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Being a community evangelist for a video sharing site isn’t easy business given the current market. It can sometimes be a real challenge to determine what, if anything, about Viddler someone would like to hear. Sure, I think nearly every feature of Viddler is great – that doesn’t mean you will, or she will, or […]

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I did, in fact, weigh myself on time this week – I just haven’t been able to find the time to write it up! This week I was within .3 pounds of my last weigh in so, I suppose I wasn’t overly excited to let you all know about it. When I’m away from home […]

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As I was approaching the scale this morning I was a little scared at what I might see. Although I did fairly good this week (side note: I did a few MealToday videos so you can see what I ate at least 2 of the days for lunch) yesterday was our 8th wedding anniversary and […]

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Due to geographic and scheduling limitations I only get down to ViddlerHQ once every few weeks. We’re working hard to change that for the near future – but historically because of scheduling conflicts there just isn’t someone at ViddlerHQ every single day of the week. All of that aside: When the Viddler team gets together […]

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Five weeks ago, when I weighed in at 191.2 pounds, I said "Time for a shift back to doing well with regards to food and hopefully I can get back to my normal exercise routine very soon. My goal for next week is to be down 2 pounds.". The goal came and went and due […]

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The subject of abuse comes up almost daily at Viddler. Whether we’re flagging videos as violations of copyright law, discovering users who try to distribute full films, etc. were always discussing ways of suppressing abuse. Turns out that other services have similar problems of dealing with abuse on a daily basis. San Francisco-based Ma.gnolia doesn’t […]

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Yesterday was a huge day in the history of Viddler. So many different things ended up converging onto one another to end up creating one crazy day in Bethlehem. (Yes, I realize this sounds like a movie by Kevin Smith about the day Jesus was born.) I knew I’d be going to ViddlerHQ to giveaway […]

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I know what you might be thinking. You’re probably thinking: "Isn’t he the guy that said…" … my main reason for not using some of the most popular web applications has been because I can not use them offline. I am a firm believer in having all of my data available to me at anytime. […]

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I have a huge list of things I’d like to have on my personal site but can rarely find the time or energy to implement many of them. Recently though I was able to scrape together enough of both to add two very subtle things that I’ve wanted to see on the site for a […]

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Today I’m working out of the offices of Ma.gnolia, in downtown San Francisco, and it is turning out to be quite a day! This morning I was, finally, able to begin uploading some video from WordCamp onto Viddler. I noticed I was having a few hiccups while doing so, but wasn’t sure where the problem […]

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The first day of WordCamp 2007 sucked. But only for me. I ended up getting really, really sick in the early afternoon and had to go back to where I am staying for rest. What started out as a headache earlier in the day quickly progressed into just feeling horrible! Fantastic weather! However, the entire […]

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I suppose I might as well semi-live blog the second day of WordCamp. (Somehow, this post has been dugg, you’ve been warned.) 10:45am – The first session of the day HyperDB and High Performance WordPress lead by Barry Abrahmson and Matt Mullenweg focused on making WordPress run smoothly when dealing with high traffic sites or […]

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Over the years I’ve met up with many people that turned out to be insincere or bogus. In fact, I’ve even fit this description at times. Often, though, this reality isn’t apparent until after initial contact. Example: You meet someone at a party/event and it seems as though you really connect with this person, or […]

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As you can see from this list of attendees I won’t be alone either! WordCamp looks like it is shaping up to be a really great weekend jammed full of great information. I’ll be in San Francisco from Friday evening until Tuesday morning. I’m looking forward to meeting up with all of the WordCamp attendees […]

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The last time I weighed in, nearly a month ago, I weighed in at around 187 pounds. I’ve gained nearly 4 pounds since that time and I now weigh 191.2 pounds. Here is where my excuses come flying in. I rolled my ankle really, really badly a few weeks ago and it is actually still […]

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10:00am – Breakfast was again served in the main ballroom. Bagels, orange juice, coffee, cranberry juice, etc. Good stuff. Who is sponsoring the breakfasts? Thanks to them for doing so (if you know, put it in the comments). This morning kicked off with Alex Hillman, of Independents Hall, and Doug Bellenger, of PhindMe.mobi talking about […]

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10:00am – I’m going to be "live blogging" the BlogPhiladelphia experience starting today and into Friday. Unlike my previous live blogging attempts I am going to split this experience up by day. Tomorrow is day one of BlogPhiladelphia so today must be day zero! I’m aiming to leave for Philadelphia around 4pm, get a haircut, […]

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Cira Center – Philadelphia, PA – Circa April 2006 This Wednesday evening through Friday evening I’ll be in Philadelphia attending Blog Philadelphia. I’m looking forward to this conference for many reasons – the first of which is because it is in my home state! The schedule looks promising with there being plenty of time for […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Something I was worried about with Eliza and I both getting iPhones was syncing. She has data, I have data, we have data! How would I be able to manage keeping all of this data in sync between our two computers and the iPhones without forcing her to only sync her iPhone […]

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Before I begin gushing about the iPhone I have to mention, especially for those of you that do not have one yet, that you can win one of two free 8Gb iPhones that we’re giving away over at Viddler just for doing simple MeToday videos. Each video you do (one per day per person) is […]

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5:30am – Good morning! I’m going to live blog my entire day. Eliza, my friend Matt, and I are heading to the King of Prussia mall’s own Apple Store to meet up with Rob to get in line for our iPhones. I hope to leave by 6:30am. 10:08am – Probably 40th in line at the […]

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The new Docs UI Google announced a redesign of the main Google Docs dashboard that gives you quick access to all of your documents and spreadsheets that you have on Google Docs. In many ways this new interface is much better than the old one – except that Google has seemingly taken tags, or labels […]

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So everyone is sick of hearing about the iPhone right? Well, everyone except those of us that are planning on getting one. Recently though I’ve seen some people saying that they don’t know why I am getting an iPhone, why I’m willing to pay so much money, why I’m getting the first version, and some […]

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I purchased my black Macbook on the very first day they were available at an Apple Store in Rockaway, New Jersey. I even wrote about the first week with my Macbook. I had a few problems with the very first Macbook they gave me with a dead mini-DVI port and then random shutdowns with the […]

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Back on May 25th I uploaded this screenshot to my Flickr account hoping that someone else would have had the same issues that I was having using my OpenID while trying to leave a comment on LiveJournal. Yet, no one has responded yet. Fast forward nearly a month and I’ve since emailed Live Journal, did […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Fanboy button – carocat_1983 Is it possible to not like something only because someone, or a group of people, like it? If one of your friends came to you and said "I love Product XYZ you absolutely have to try it!" would you be turned off by their enthusiasm for it? Recently I’ve had a […]

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Lately I’ve been lax in my workouts. This is in part due to the fact that my schedule is not lining up with Chris Fehnel‘s schedule and so I haven’t been regularly hitting the gym nor running (though I have managed to play some frisbee and basketball). I believe it is time to quit making […]

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Hello, Skitch! Well, that was fun. I feel like all that I’ve been doing over the last few days is giving out Skitch invites and inviting more people to try it! I think we should back pedal a little to explain what exactly happened and why I’m surprised at the response. Ever since I got […]

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You may have read my overview of Skitch or maybe you saw the countless images tagged with skitch on Flickr – and perhaps you want to join in on the fun? Update at 11:34am EST: plasq is planning a full scale release of Skitch in a matter of hours. Until then, read below. Update at […]

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MeToday: June 11, 2007 So I’ve been catching some flack over my MeToday photo that, more or less, described my feelings towards the WWDC Keynote on Monday. Perhaps I’m overreacting, perhaps I’m being a little overly critical, or maybe I just needed more sleep, but the fact remains — I am not alone in my […]

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Thanks to all who encouraged me after gaining a few pounds last week. It means a lot. This week I lost 2.6 pounds and weighed in at 187.4 pounds. I’m very happy with these results considering the weekend of eating rather heartily. Although I was able to play a little frisbee and play some basketball […]

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One of the most difficult things about building a software product is dealing with feature requests. They come from everywhere. At Viddler we’ve got a forum specifically for jotting down feature ideas, because we all realize that people will have really great ideas on how Viddler could be of use to them. Then, and I […]

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If I have a bad week on the diet it is usually caused by one of the following two things. First, I may have skipped my running, sports, or working out at the gym sometime during the week. Or, second, I may not have eaten well during the week. Usually if I do not eat […]

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Sorry for the lack of updates (namely my weigh in today). But my thoughts have been preoccupied as you can see from my MeToday video for today (come to this post to view the video). MeToday: June 5, 2007 Do you want an iPhone as much as I do? Am I alone in my thoughts […]

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For those reading this that may not know what Google Gears does allow me to give a little bit of background on the situation and explain how, in general, web applications work. Web applications are different then the applications you run on your computer in two very specific and obvious ways. First, they are run […]

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Three hundred and sixty five days. Fifty two weeks. Twelve months. One year. No matter how it is said I can’t believe how far we’ve come. How much we’ve learned and lost and how excited I am to start another year! Over the last few weeks I’ve had hundreds of ideas for how I’d write […]

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