Get a Brightkite sticker, Viddler Tshirt and sticker!
Brightkite, in their infinite generosity, sent me a few stickers that I could give away here on my site. When I got them in the mail yesterday I immediately began to think…
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Brian Dawkins
Wolverine himself. I'm not a fan of the Eagles (I'm a Steelers fan), but I am a fan of Brian Dawkins.
Brightkite’s smart \”profile not found\” pages
For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you're trying to reach simply does not exist. In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found"….
iPhone camera oddity
Not sure exactly what caused this, but a quick snap of my wine glass with my iPhone and this is what happened. Somehow, I found it fitting with my current state when…
Seneca Harbor Wine Center
Taken July 18, 2008 – The windows at the Seneca Harbor Wine Center.
The way Brightkite fits
A few months ago I was invited to join Brightkite. At the time I wasn't too keen on giving up my exact location all the time, nor did I want to switch…
A new perspective on billboards
There are examples of well and poorly designed billboards all over highways and high-traffic roads in the United States and other countries. However, Branislav Kropilak has a slightly different perspective on billboards…
Lights reflected in water
Date taken: July 18, 2008 Lights reflecting in the harbor waters.
Seneca Lake Marina
Date taken: July 18, 2008 Seneca Lake Marina in Watkins Glen, New York at night.
About a million little things
I have been slowly making small adjustments to this site's theme locally on my computer for weeks. Every now and then, as I'd find a bug or something that bugged me on…
Benjamin Wilken’s Australian adventure
A nine year old boy in my area recently won a trip to Australia with National Geographic. "For Benjamin Wilken, it was the chance of a lifetime. He wrote a 300-word essay…
Moscow as the bird flies
EnglishRussia.com recently published a photoset of Russia from a birds-eye view. The photos are pretty stunning. The most amazing thing to me is to see how much Moscow has changed when I…
A quick tour of Wine Library
For anyone who hasn't been to Wine Library, here is a quick tour in under a minute. If you'd like to see more of Wine Library, Gary did his own tour in…
Gary Vaynerchuk, \”Genius\”
Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.
My homemade Batman shirt
Eliza and I, along with a few friends, are going to the midnight premier of Batman: The Dark Knight tonight. As we've done in the past, we're making our own tshirts. This…
Why so serious?
My friend Sameer. At the midnight premier for The Dark Knight.
WordPress 2.6 ignores upload preferences
Wordpress 2.6 was released only a few days ago, so it isn't too suprising that there are some bugs. But this bug seems like it would have been very easy to catch….
I’m a vayniac
If you watch WLTV, you know this chalk board.
Tap Tap Tap
"Tasty bits for your iPhone". Ok, I'll bite. I'm linking to this site for a few reasons. The first, is that it is a site that combines iPhone applications with sushi. Any…
The Wine Library
There is a lot of wine at Wine Library.
Third-party iPhone applications: Take one.
So it has begun, the next-generation in mobile computing. Did you miss it? On Friday, officially, Apple released its updates for both iTunes and the iPhone making it possible for those who…
Sunset
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Pagination in Facebook applications with PHP
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Kyle Slattery, Viddler's Lead Social Developer, recently released a nice little PHP-snippet for Facebook application developers: "While building the Viddler Facebook application, I needed to create a pagination tool that…
Video: The iPhone’s geo-enabled camera
The iPhone's geo-enabled camera, whether you've upgraded to an iPhone 3G with built-in GPS or not, now records the location ((A rough latitude and longitude.)) that the photo was taken. I have…
Another dieting success story
This is exactly what I needed to read this week. I've been struggling with my weight, again, and I'd rather it not get out of control, again, and so I'm looking for…
Exposure; the unofficial Flickr iPhone application
Scott McNulty, friend and fellow-Pennsylvanian, is reporting on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that Connected Flow is going to release a free iPhone application called Exposure that allows you to browse and interact…
20 abandoned cities
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] We often think of abandoned cities in the form of "ghost towns" typically found in the western United States. Whole towns left empty after the gold rush of the…
George Lucas, Following his heart back to Star Wars
“I can go and make half a dozen ‘THXes.’ I’ll lose everything I put into them, guaranteed. But I can have a lot of fun doing it.” — George Lucas Ugh. This…
A comet, lightning, and fireworks
Talk about a photographic trifecta. The Astronomy Picture Of The Day, from July 5th, is a photo taken in January 2007 in Perth, Australia wherein a group of people watching the Australia…
Another five random things about me
There is a new 5 things group on Viddler, started by my friend Edwin, and it has turned into a small contest on Viddler – so I threw my hat in again…