Weigh in: January 18, 2011
Half the distance to the goal. NFL referees usually use this term as a unit of measure for a penalty against the defense. Depending on what that goal may be, a first…
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Some thoughts on Google Chrome removing support for H.264 video playback
I have to say, this makes very little sense. It is the Chrome team's prerogative to add or remove any feature from their browser that they'd like to but the reasons they've…
Weigh in: January 11, 2011
This week I rested on my laurels just a bit. I didn't work out a single time (other than my weekly basketball routine) and I even drank a few beers. I think…
Happy 42nd to Mom & Dad
Tomorrow my parents will have just hit their 42nd wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary to them. /photo credit: Peter Devroe.
Inside Carwanna
Taken in February 2009 in Carwanna in Carbondale, PA.
Tron Legacy Terminal style for Mac OS X
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every since seeing Tron Legacy I've wanted Flynn's computer. From what I've heard on the Interwebs it runs Sun Solaris. Since I'm a Mac guy maybe I can have…
Wine labels that I’ve designed
One of the fun parts of making wine is making the wine label. Eliza really loves having a wine label per wine that we make. For the most part we've been able…
The Mac App Store is live
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So it turns out my fears have been abated. The Mac App Store is great. Simply run Software Update on any Macintosh running Snow Leopard.
Tumblr, falling.
How quickly things change! I've been praising Tumblr over the last several months because it has been an excellent tool to build The Watercolor Gallery with. And it still is, except since…
PHP Classes by Tijs Verkoyen
Speaking of RSS to Twitter (which now supports OAuth by the way) the reason I was able to update that project so easily was due to the generosity of Tijs Verkoyen who…
RSS to Twitter using PHP now supports OAuth
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] My handy dandy little script that makes it easy to parse an RSS feed and send links to Twitter using PHP just got a nice little update. It now…
BottomsUP Beer Tap. The perfect \”pour\”.
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.
Weigh in: December 28, 2010
It has been a frigid, snowy week here in Pennsylvania which has kept me from doing the jogging I said I wanted to do last week. But I still did great on…
Minimalist effect in the maximalist market by Antrepo
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] If only these guys did the packaging for, well, everything.
Upload video to Viddler using C#
ejveal on Viddler graciously shared a snippet of C# to upload video to Viddler. Thanks for that Eric. /via the Viddler Developers Group.
I’ve cleaned up my titles
John Gruber's lashing of the news media on the Web about their page titles reminded me that I hadn't cleaned up the titles provided by default by my current Wordpress theme. I've…
Brandice Schnabel. Size 8.
Speaking of diets; my friend and ex-coworker Brandice Schnabel is in a Size 8 pant. Go girl.
Export your Delicious bookmarks using Terminal on Mac OS X
Reading Jeremy Keith's recap of the fact that Delicious is shutting down being sold off and that he wanted to pull all of his bookmarks off of the service and onto his…
Instagram hits 1M users. I’m one of them.
Instagram has hit 1,000,000 users in only a few short months. I'm one of them. /via Dan Rubin on Twitter.
Weigh in: December 21, 2010
I can't believe that week one is already over and that I'm already doing the second weigh in. I don't know if it is because I've done this before or just that…
Sponsor The Watercolor Gallery
Reach 1,300 aspiring artists for only $80. This deal won't last very long. More about the sponsorship here and also the post on the gallery itself.
The liverwurst and onion sandwich
The sandwich is delicious but I have a feeling Eliza won't be kissing me for a month.
Use your Mac with AirPlay using AirPlayer
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Erica Sudan has made a nice little utility called AirPlayer (look for the download link in the list at the bottom of the page) that makes it dead simple…
The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Tim Ferriss (whom I've mentioned that I met and shared a meal with once), the author of The 4-hour Work Week (which was great and is worth the read),…
Video: Doodling in Math Class; Infinite Elephants
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This is a fantastic video. That is all.
Backing up Tumblr blogs to Dropbox
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] With Tumblr's recent downtime I thought it'd be very important to back up The Watercolor Gallery to my computer. I also thought it'd be good to back it up…
Git Magic
As someone who has somewhat recently began using Git on a daily basis I can say that Git Magic has helped me quite a bit. /via Jeremy Zawodny. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]
Weigh in: December 14, 2010
You may have noticed that I relaunched The Diet page yesterday with new information, a new challenge for myself, and even a video. Yes, it is true, I'm going back on The…
Chewbacca on a Segway in Boston
Today I realized a fatal flaw in my blog's archive. There wasn't a single post tagged 'chewbacca'. Consider that flaw fixed. Photo credit: Eliza Devroe.
CrunchGear’s iPad case roundup
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I've found photos of iPad cases to be very deceiving. What may look like a really great case for the iPad turns out to feel very flimsy and cheap…