A storm trooper, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and I in Hollywood, California
Today I did a search on my site for Vader and came up empty-handed. I just couldn't stand for that and so I'm posting this photo of me, taken by Daniel Nicolas,…
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Gewurztraminer 107
Date taken: April 13, 2008. A vine post near Seneca Lake in New York. This particular vineyard and wineary had each of their grape vines marked for the type of grape that…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Yesterday I saw a link from Jason Kottke's blog to a trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a new movie starring Brad Pitt. I immediately watched the trailer and was…
The king of stop, drop, and roll
Actually, the whole stopping part pretty much eludes him. My friend Chris Fehnel isn't so good at landing jumps. You may remember we did some jumping at the State Park a few…
Not quite a review of The Happening
Christopher Orr "reviews" The Happening in a different way than we're used to; by giving away spoilers on purpose. His reason for doing so? Because he believes you shouldn't have to see…
The Firefox 3 launch might be more important than you realize
I don't know how many applications you have installed on your computer but I have enough where there is an update to one of them at least once per week and often…
The page rendering race
It is a race that has an end at 0.00. Well, not really. But you'd have to think that the speed at which a browser can render a certain amount of HTML,…
How I’m using Spaces on Mac OS X
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] When Apple released the latest update for Mac OS X Leopard, with the version number of 10.5.3, they updated the way that Spaces worked. As John Gruber pointed out,…
How to: Delete all photos off an iPhone
Update: Somewhat unrelated, new post called How to: Delete photos from within Smart Albums in iPhoto. For an entire year I've wanted to be able to do this easily. And I think…
iPhone 3G price comparison
You may have already seen this, but if you're thinking about buying or upgrading to an iPhone 3G next month, you need to see this. Gizmodo took the time to compare the…
Video demonstration of an iPhone with dead spots
For the last few days my iPhone's home screen has been acting up. The bottom row of icons has been completely unresponsive. Since they are my least used icons, I only noticed…
Euro 2008 Twitter bots
Soccer fan? Well my friend and fellow Viddler team member Kyle Slattery just released two bots for Twitter that you can follow to get both play-by-play and goal-only updates. "Now you can…
Dryocampa rubicunda
Perhaps better known as the Rosy Maple Moth, this moth was just outside our apartment building door. My friend Chris just showed up for dinner and Game 4 of the NBA Finals…
Fake Steve Jobs: “Holy crap, we forgot to announce the new MacBooks!”
Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs (He's really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean…
FriendFeed’s \”hide\” feature
Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or…
The pseudo Twitter follow through FriendFeed
This is a simple tip on how to "follow" someone on Twitter without actually "following" them. On Twitter I only follow a select few people. This helps to cut down on the…
John Gruber: Celtics fan.
Back to back links to John Gruber's Daring Fireball? The way I figure it, I owe him a few thousand links to make up for his one link to my site. Recently,…
Hands on with the iPhone 3G
Engadget's Ryan Block, by Apple's invitation, was able to spend a few minutes with an iPhone 3G. I'm linking to this both because I think Ryan's notes are interesting, and because I'm…
John Gruber: The platform is the story.
John Gruber, sole author of Daring Fireball my favorite weblog on the Internet, states what might seem as obvious to some – but I'm sure will be missed somewhat by the mass-media….
Snow Leopard, a reality
OS X 10.5.3, also known as Leopard and the current Operating System I'm running on my laptop as I write this entry, is a fantastic Operating System. OS X, since 10.0, has…
The WWDC wish list, answered?
Yesterday I wrote a last minute wish list for this year's WWDC announcements for a few reasons, one of which was simply to be able to compare the list with what actually was…
My last minute WWDC wish list
These are not predictions. I have no inside information. I just have needs, wants, and aspirations. And I'm hoping that this year's WWDC, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference happening on Monday in San…
Post downpour
The photo doesn't do the view justice, as usual.
Hancock for iPhone
I took a quick snap of the poster with my iPhone and now it is my iPhone's background.
Increase your productivity with Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack
37Signals, a software development company out of Chicago, Illinois, recently launched an affiliate program. I thought this a perfect time for me to let you know about three of their flagship products. Oh,…
Giving away Viddler tshirts at the DiggNation Meetup
We were able to give away a fair amount of Viddler tshirts, in only a few minutes, at the DiggNation Meetup in Brooklyn, New York to those waiting in line for the…
At Studio B
Revision 3 folks are setting up for DiggNation. 1000 people are going to fit in here? Editor's note: It turns out that 2,000 people showed up at the door. The Revision 3…
Brian Brushwood interview
Joanne from Rocketboom, though they were recording something for Internet Week not Rocketboom, interviews Brian Brushwood (@shwood on Twitter) from Scam School. Shortly after this interview Brian did the opening act for…
Bus to NYC
Waiting for the bus in Hellertown, PA with Rob and Kyle. We're headed to New York City for the DiggNation Meetup.
In the cab
The iPhone helped the cabby find Brooklyn, Ha!