This decade’s lost species
Guardian has a list of species that we've either lost or may lose in this decade alone. Sad. Via Jason Kottke.
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Viddler on Facebook’s Developer Garage livestream
Thanks to Ethan Beard, who is as I type hosting Facebook's Developer Garage, for including the Viddler logo in his slide about applications on Facebook.
NaNoDrawMo?
I'm thinking of participating in NaNoDrawMo an art initiative that takes place through the month of November. The inspiration comes from Steven Frank (whom I interviewed a few months ago) and he…
Random 60: I love leftovers.
[viddler id-d2a0e47 h-280 w-420] Random 60: I love leftovers. One of my favorite foods is leftovers. Pretty much anything that is leftover from the night before will do – but certain foods…
The perfect Git workflow by Kyle Slattery
The way Kyle talks about Git is much the same as I talk about cookies. Sort of makes me want to grab a tall glass of milk and dive into Git. Here…
Viddler launches video statistics for the rest of us
[viddler id-b6549b4a h-278 w-420] Something new from Viddler today. Something we've been working on for quite a while. Viddler Analytics is a new feature that makes it easy to understand complex video…
On top of Elk Mtn.
My friend Raymond and I took a quick hike to shoot photos on the top of Elk Mtn. A great way to kick off this next stage of The Diet.
Photos from a hike up Elk Mountain
My friend Raymond and I hiked to the top of Elk Mountain this evening, trying to take advantage one of the last nice days for this fall, and took some photos of…
Tracking my weight all the way back down to 180, again
It is hard to believe that The Diet is about 3 and a 1/2 years old. It was over three years ago that so many of us decided to get healthy, lose…
Dive Into HTML5 – Video on the Web
The much talked about tag in the HTML5 spec is, obviously, of interest to me. I mean, I work at Viddler after all. However, even if I didn't – I'd still tell…
Follow me on Twitter
I joined Twitter in November 2006. Since then I've written about Twitter quite a bit and I've tweeted over 13,000 times. Wow. That must mean this thing is going to stick with…
Letters of Note
It has been far too long since I made any suggestions to all of you. Suggestions, here on First Initial, Last Name are what I consider recommended reading/viewing. Of course, all of…
Notes from my LessConf presentation \”How to Measure Success\”
Thanks to Scott Meade for taking really good notes from my How to Measure Success presentation from LessConf in Jacksonville, Florida. Consider this a teaser for the forthcoming video. Photo credit: Mr…
Windows 7 tips
If you're going to do a demonstration of Windows 7, the latest version of Microsoft's – most popular in the world – operating system, you might as well do it on an…
WPAPI.org – A stats API for WordPress.org hosted plugins and themes
WPAPI.org, the brain-child of Dean Robinson (who has been mentioned a few times here on First Initial, Last Name), is an easy to use stats API for plugins and themes hosted on…
Line-o-sushi
Yeah. Awesome.
A few Tweetie 2 for Mac wishes
Tweetie on Mac But, you just got done saying how much you loved Tweetie 2 for iPhone. You want more? Well, yes I do. I am now using both Tweetie on my…
A nice evening
It is going to be a nice evening.
Jon Christopher’s new suit
My friend Jon Christopher has just launched a new site for himself. He's run the Monday By Noon site and brand for years yet he never had a place all his own…
The Dyson bladeless fan
From the guy that invented bagless vacuums and the insanely powerful airblades to dry your hands in bathrooms comes this; a bladeless fan. Using what looks to be the same principles that…
Camping in Chenango Valley State Park
Taken on October 14, 2004. Five years ago today: Again, I'm late on this one. For a fair stretch of time I was camping every single year in Chenango Valley State Park…
The iMac as my main computer
Taken on October 15, 2004. Five years ago today: Well, not really. I haven't been keeping up with my "five years ago today posts" and so this one is a bit late….
Celebrate Columbus Day, the right way!
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This is via a ton of people on Tumblr but ultimately Garrett Murray. He says it is perfect and I think it is super fantasticly perfectly awesome. So, there.
Fifteen second video tour of my cleaned up office
[viddler id-d3739ab9 h-357 w-420] Part reason to play with 15 second videos again, part quick way to document that my office is clean at the moment, here is a 15 second video…
Shh. Pookers is sleeping in his new bed.
(Video removed) This is my blog and I can post as many 'hey my cat is cute and is sleeping' videos that I want to, b'okay?
Why I bought Tweetie 2 for iPhone
I don't buy a lot of iPhone applications. My reasons are that I don't have a lot of extra money for such things and that many times I end up getting rid…
Crazy Richard’s Peanut Butter is pretty crazy good
Do you like peanut butter? Then I highly recommend you try out Crazy Richard's Peanut Butter. Creamy, chunky, the choice is yours but I will say that it is the best peanut…
Dan Rubin: \”I know how to clean a fork\”
My friend Dan Rubin hasn't written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing…
Hello ladies
After going outside it appears there are, and this isn't an actual head count just a best guess, hundreds of thousands of lady bugs swarming around our apartment building alone. Due to…
Random 60: Give us the haircut details!
[viddler id-cec0aceb h-280 w-420] Welcome to Random 60 season 2! Sorta. Today we have a special guest, Kyle Slattery, who is a friend and fellow Viddler team member. Today's topic, haircuts. I…