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Is WordPress’ licensing too strict?
Owen Winkler, who leads the Habari project, makes an interesting case for how "…Habari absolutely slaughters WordPress" in the licensing department. He sums up his thoughts this way, which I think would…
Nearly Fall
Storming no more
When I left for work the morning of this photo, it had been raining as if in a hurricane. I drove to New Jersey, somehow getting ahead of the storm. Thirty minutes…
Wine spill
A very good smelling spill. The iPhone oddity emerges again!
Paper Feast by Koren Shadmi
Daddy's New Job by Koren Shadmi I've been subscribed to Koren Shadmi's Livejournal titled Paper Feast for a long time. This morning, while sipping my coffee and reading his latest entry called…
Dipped in Chrome
Google's Chrome, the new Web browser by Google, has been getting a lot of attention because of its simple approach to browsing the Web. But there is more here than meets the…
FancyZoom, rewritten using Prototype
Earlier this year Cabel Sasser, co-founder and designer at the incredible software house Panic, released a "Smooth Javascript for Image Zooming For Your Web Pages". The implementation was simple enough, worked really…
Advance testing the Nikon D90
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I'm a Canon man but the reviews of the new Nikon D90 that I've seen so far are intriguing. Chase Jarvis, arguably one of the best modern day professional…
Bridge in the sun
The weather we've been having lately is just awesome.
Getting to happy
Reed Gustow, the man that starts every morning with a little bit of peanut butter, has an excellent write up on how to set proper goals relating to your health. There are…
Radioactive llamas with super powers!
You asked for it and so now you're getting it. When I installed the Skribit widget on my suggestions page I didn't realize that some of you would ask for something like…
Ten pins
I had a hard time knocking them all down at once.
Tony Green sorta made cherry pie
Photo credit: Tony Green My friend-who-I-never-get-to-see Tony Green recently enjoyed a delicious cherry pie. The title of his post is "First Cherry Pie", which I thought meant that he made it, but…
A river side stroll
The Lackawanna River while on my walk today.
New York style pizza in San Francisco, California
If there is anything in the culinary world more centering than pizza I don't know what it is. We all have our favorite toppings, styles, and even ways to eat it. Folded…
Lost. Found. Returned.
A really great story published on the Flickr Blog the other day. As it turns out, some one lost a camera, some one found the camera, and then someone went to great…
Desert cloud
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A cloud above Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fountains in the sun
Date taken: August 17, 2008 The fountains in front of Arc de Triumph at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. To the right; the Bellagio Hotel.
Gondola rides
Date taken: August 17, 2008 Gondola rides in the Venetian. This is indoor.
Growth. Slow and steady.
Another link to Michael Mistretta's site. In case you missed it the other day, "Going Beyond Automattic". This time Michael chimes in on the slow, yet steady, growth of his site. When…
Jogging monster
My messed up hair amplified by my elongated head due to iPhone stretching. Oh, and wearing my now pretty old Loch Ness Imposter Threadless tee.
Laptop bags for light computing
Photo credit: Paul Stamatiou. Holy timely post by my friend Paul Stamatiou Batman! Paul managed to get his paws on a few different laptop bags best-suited to fit his Macbook Air. Since…
Las Vegas streets, at sunset
Date taken: August 17, 2008 Just outside Treasure Island, at sunset.
Man or monster?
Date taken: August 17, 2008 In the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
One deer, one owl in flight, six or eight rabbits, and 17 miles.
An inspiring story of a morning run by Dylan F. Tweney, whose training to run a full marathon and was having trouble getting passed the 14-mile mark. "Training for a marathon, it turns…
Something new, something fun
While in Las Vegas Kyle, Rob, and I stopped at a Peter Lik photo gallery. His gallery in Caesar's Palace is breath taking (as I stated on Twitter but spelled breath wrong). I…
Street-side cafe
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A small cafe/restaurant just outside of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The perfect chocolate chip cookie
Fun piece in the New York Times on what makes the perfect chocolate chip cookie. "Like the omelet, which many believe to be the true test of a chef, the humble chocolate…