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Josue thought it’d be cool if he interviewed me, Chris, Mike, and himself. [tags]josue salazar, colin devroe, chris fehnel, mike stickel, tug, theubergeeks, interview[/tags] [slug]tug-interview[/slug]

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Originally published in early-May 2004 with the title of "The story of my iMac". I’d say that it began in July 2002. My wife Eliza and I like to catch the live Apple Keynote’s whenever we can. The July 2002 broadcast introduced the iMac 17"flat panel, preloaded with OS X. I mentioned to Eliza that […]

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My wife Eliza has said before that she loves Wednesdays. So perhaps it is of little surprise that I too enjoy Wednesdays. I have a few reasons for really liking this particular day of the week. LOST New DVDs from Eliza A chance to see what you’ve already done for the week, and what is […]

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Finally I’ve had the opportunity to build and release Slugger, a plugin that allows me to use MarsEdit to the fullest of its potential with WordPress. Finally. [tags]wordpress, wordpress plugin, plugin, slugger, chancecube[/tags]

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Originally posted in April 2004 on TUG with the title "A new approach to driving". I’m reposting this because I plan on doing a slightly better job of driving than I have been lately. Partially due to my wife’s prodding, but also because I found this post and remember that there was a time when […]

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My good friend Josue is "rearranging" his site. He now has everything setup in small chronological notes. I like it. [tags]josue salazar, weblog[/tags]

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No, not my bikini area – our floors. In preparation for getting our floors waxed we had to move everything, thoroughly sweep and mop the floors, and put the cats in the office. Pickles inspecting the floor After the cats approved of our floors, we put them away. Now I’m just waiting to do one […]

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This was originally posted on TUG in March 2004. My wife has a problem. An addiction if you will. Not to pain killers, alcohol or any drugs for that matter, but rather to deals. Allow me to explain. My wife’s skill set is a three-pronged sword. First, she is very good at locating ‘deals’ for […]

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I find this pretty hilarious now. I wrote this on TUG in January 2004. Mr. Jobs I must appologize for my ignorance and arrogance. I love my iMac, I really do, but I have always had problems with this or that. Not with the computer itself, mostly just connecting to my other computer. Well, today […]

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In March 2004 myself and a few friends went to see Scott McKenna at a local Border’s book store. Scott and Nyke performing Borders in Dickson City, PA in 2004 After watching him I wrote: Scott played some Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews and Howie Day all while mixing in some of his own stuff. His […]

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I have decided to start collecting all of my better posts from various other sources and putting them all on my personal blog. More for the search-ability than anything. This article was first posted to Business Logs, almost exactly as you see it below, and was also featured in a magazine. Speaking from experience, using […]

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I have so many posts about iPhoto in my "saved drafts" area that I figured it is time to get rid of one. This one deals with sharing photos in iPhoto – something that is a fairly painful process still. In short, if you pull open a remote Library that you’d like to grab a […]

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[tags]mac, macintosh, apple, blaugh, cartoon, funny[/tags]

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For those that have already seen my chair, this post will come as absolutely no surprise. For those that haven’t, let me catch you up to speed with the following photo. My chair as of this morning Why did I let it get this bad? About one week after I got my chair, the thing […]

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If you have a first-generation iPod shuffle and need to reset it, Apple has you covered now. [via Infinite Loop] [tags]ipod, shuffle, apple, software[/tags]

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If only I had facial hair that was recognizable at a distance of greater than 4-inches from my face – I’d participate. [tags]kris krug, fun, movember[/tags]

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Personally I am not going to be using Firefox 2.0 until at least a single point-release is out, but if you would like to use Firefox 2.0, and you’re on the Mac, I suggest checking out the optimized builds. No idea what Firefox is? Using a program called Internet Explorer? Please do yourself a favor […]

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We just can’t stop giving away free stuff I guess. Mike has been slaving over a hot G4 for the last few days tweaking and getting the options just right to launch Simple Countdown version 1.0. I begged and pleaded that Simple Countdown would be able to do simple, easy, in-post countdowns and boy did […]

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Most of us like nice, new things. Whenever something new comes out we ogle at its features, wonder at how we could use them to our advantage, and then eventually buy the product. But how many of us take full advantage of the things we already own? I’m sure some of you out there do […]

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"Scientists create a kind of invisibility shield by bending microwaves" I find this intriguing of course but I’m of the belief that they are not even close to having anything of real worth. Though I’d love to see a demo. An interesting quote was: "We did this work very quickly . . . and that […]

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A view from the top is a guest post on a friend’s blog about quitting World of Warcraft when the person had gotten to the top. Reads like most addiction quitters. There is a redux and an alternative point of view too. (via Waxy) [tags]addiction, quitting, world of warcraft[/tags]

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Blue Sky Studios, the creators of Ice Age, have a challenge blog. The latest challenge? Favorite Pixar Characters. (this was from back in August) (via Luxo) [tags]blue sky studios, pixar, drawing, art, animation, pixar[/tags]

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Ms. Dewey is a search engine that has a good-looking woman pestering you while you search. Devin hits the nail on the head with his review of Ms. Dewey. [tags]ms. dewey, devin reams, review, search engine[/tags]

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Have you ever tried to download something on a P2P network only to get 1,000 results of bogus files? Turns out this is now being done on purpose as a way to advertise to P2P users. [tags]p2p, advertising[/tags]

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A really great article by PBS called "Creative Commons Flickr = 22 million sharable photos". Oh and Kris Krug was called a moonlighter. (via Kris Krug) [tags]flickr, creative commons, pbs, sharing, community[/tags]

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ScrivsTyme (an audio show put on by Paul Scrivens and Tyme White, both of 9rules) is about to hit episode number 100. Although I can not think of a clever way to tribute that accomplishment, I would like to say congrats! [tags]Paul Scrivens, Tyme White, 9rules, podcast, scrivstyme[/tags]

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Another Star Wars video (see "Under the Tusken Sun") – Star Wars car sale follows a Jedi into a car dealership. Quotable quotes include: "How much is this ship?" and "That is a nice cargo hold!". [tags]star wars, jedi, car sale, video[/tags]

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So Stephen Hawking is to be divorced. Something I didn’t know though, was the rich tapestry that makes up his life and relationships. "The 64-year-old scientist, author of the best seller "A Brief History of Time," is almost completely paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. He communicates with the help of a […]

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The New York Inquirer has redesigned. And it looks very familiar. The plague of design rip offs that has been infecting the Internet since its inception is one that needs a solution – or at least a swift consequence to those found guilty. [tags]redesign, rip-off, coudal, new york inquirer[/tags]

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Under the Tusken Sun is a video short about teenaged love on Tatooine. (via Jeremy Zawodny) [tags]video, short, tusken raider, sand people, starwars, tatooine[/tags]

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Oct. 20th 10:35am – As you can probably tell – things are already starting to change. My rethinking may come at some expense to those that regularly read my site, sorry. I’m starting to post some links first, then I’ll be moving onto other things. For now, you’ll be dealing with the old design while […]

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An international team of astronomers have surmised that Andromeda, the galaxy closest to our own Milky Way, suffered a head-on collision with another galaxy some 210 million years go – resulting in what is now an odd-shape for a galaxy. Now that is what I call a Cold Case solved. And, as an aside: if […]

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Lloyd catalogs the release of WordPress 2.0.5 RC by giving links to just about everywhere it has been mentioned so far. The most notable changes for me? user description is no longer HTML-entity converted going into the database plugins are sorted by plugin name, instead of filename the authors dropdown is now sorted by display_name […]

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So it turns out the word "Zune", which is also the name of Microsoft’s iPod "competitor", means F*** in Hebrew. Almost. [tags]zune, microsoft, ipod, hebrew, language[/tags]

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Watch your head! Update. Update 2. [tags]test, testing, cdevroe.com[/tags] [post_name]v3-test[/post_name] [link]http://yahoo.com/\[/link] [thumbnail]photos/testing/test.php[/thumbnail]

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I’ve been thinking about doing this for sometime — taking everything that I put online and centralizing it onto my site. As most of you know I have an account on flickr and an account on del.icio.us – though I do not use either to their fullest potential. Flickr provides me with a great way […]

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When we first came to look at our new apartment we saw just what we expected in nearly every room. After the previous tenants had left, our landlord went through each room and restored the floors, walls, and even some of the appliances. See, the tenants that lived here prior had a few kids and […]

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I weighed in this morning at 186.5 pounds, or up 1.5 pounds from two weeks ago. The weight gain is almost meaningless but it does remind me to stay on track, and get back on a schedule. Last week I didn’t weigh in. I got some emails and IMs from those that asked me why […]

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The best type of gift to give someone is the type of gift you also benefit from. Eliza has always wanted to see her favorite NFL team, the Green Bay Packers, live and in-person. I’ve also never gone to an NFL game (at least not in my adult-life) so I was equally as excited to […]

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Welcome to Hershey Park This past weekend we visited Hershey Park, and I wanted to make a note of something that really gets me. Theme Park prices are the worst example of good business practices, and also the best example of them, ever. How are they the worst and the best examples? They are the […]

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Not too much to tell with this weigh in. This past weekend we went down to Hershey and actually went to the park. Ice cream, chocolate, ham burgers, french fries, beer, and hoagies (or subs as some of us classify them) contributed to me not losing any weight, but I didn’t gain any either. I […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Another moth and not to be confused with the huge moth that was on our porch in May of this year. Mike and I were headed to lunch at [Lunkerz Deli](http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=12105476&stx=&csz=Clifford PA) and Mike spotted this fella on the porch. Large Tolype – Tolype velleda I had to do some extensive searching […]

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Sixteen full weeks of being on the diet. I never ever thought I’d get this far, have this type of response, and this type of personal success. I encourage anyone that has been thinking about starting a diet to do so, going in with the frame of mind that losing weight is not an extremely […]

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Food, wine, shopping, white water rafting, friends, kids, family, and sun is what made up what will most likely be one of our last (if not the last) weekends of the summer. What I mean be "last" is that the rest of our summer weekends are jammed full of mostly indoor activities, and by the […]

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I woke up earlier this week to read an announcement on TUG by Josue about the Keyword Assistant for iPhoto had been updated for the latest version of iPhoto and for Intel-based Macintoshes. I was thrilled! But then it dawned on me the task that was ahead of me. I had been without the Keyword […]

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For anyone trying to access TUG, sorry. I have learned my lesson and will never digg anything ever again. Valueless traffic, that shuts your site down until the spike disappears. Lesson learned. Update: The site is back up, thanks to John K. and helping me get some caching setup. [tags]tug, digg, theubergeeks[/tags]

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Without a doubt, I’m not being as strict as I used to be on my diet. I’m eating slightly more, and sometimes it isn’t the best of foods. My metabolism is much higher than it used to be, and my activity level is as well. All of this contributes to me being able to be […]

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I’m sad for 9rules.com For those that do not know, 9rules.com is currently down due to a mishap at our registrar. Please know it is being worked on – and I’ll try to keep you updated from here. Update 8:28am EST: Oh, please help spread that news that 9rules is not closing its doors or […]

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We (meaning Mike and I), just got finished with a first pass of a WordPress plugin that we’ve called Happy Pals that will automatically find the REL attributes in your posts, and assign the appropriate classes to those links. This way, you can style links to your friends differently than you do links to anywhere […]

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It isn’t often enough that the friends we create in this online world are met in real life. Earlier this year I was able to meet with Mike Rundle, and now I’ve finally gotten to meet another Mike. Mike and I have been chatting online since he started leaving comments on The uber geeks back […]

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