Nike Air Assault
My current pair of basketball sneakers. Review: Great ankle support. Outside of sneakers holding up really well. Inside of sneaker is beginning to bunch up. I'll update this post to say how…
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Panera on Wednesday
A shot from this past Wednesday. I get a lot of work done in the energy of Panera Bread.
R. D. Jr.
Going to be great.
Runners 2-way
Essentially this is saying that runners can go both ways. Err.
50c to play
One of these beautys could be your's for just 50c.
Gary Vaynerchuk, published author
My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, who you may know as the host of WineLibrary TV, is now a published author and you can pre-order his book Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and…
How the advertising experiment is going so far
In very early January I decided to run an experiment where I'd put Adsense on this site for a few months, not do anything differently than I normally would, and see how…
Pennsylvania might as well be in Israel
Robert Scoble recently quipped that Israel is too far away from Mike Arrington's house. To qualify that headline; Mike Arrington founded TechCrunch, a web site that covers news related to business on…
Yearbook Project: Excelsior 1968 by John Martz
Why, oh, why did I ever stop reading John "RobotJohnny" Martz's blog? Somehow in my efforts to slim down my number of feeds, his site got the axe, and hasn't returned -…
Help me build the Viddler Lab
I'm building a complete developer resource, piece by piece, for developers that are interested in building on top of Viddler's platform. But, I can't do it alone, so I'm asking fellow developers…
Leo Laporte’s photo kit
[viddler id-79cb0e9a h-211 w-300] Leo Laporte recently went to Tasmania on a photography adventure. Sponsored by O'Reilly and Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom, the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure on the Australian island seemed to…
Ten Star Wars toys that unintentionally look like celebrities
Slave Bale? Doesn't this toy look like ________? How many times have you said that? Topless Robot has found more than a few Star Wars toys that unintentionally resemble celebrities. "But what…
Trapped in an elevator for 41 hours
Nicholas White was finished with his cigarette break. Little did he know that he'd be taking the longest cigarette break he's ever taken. Trapped in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building's elevator Car No. 30, while security cameras…
Study: Pirated Web Video Peaks 12-18 Hours After Broadcast
Whoa. This must have taken some major investigatory work. Real gumshoe-type investigating. It appears as though TV shows, merely 12 to 18 hours after broadcasting on network television, are up, online, and…
Twinkle for iPhone
Webware's Joshua Lowensohn pretty thoroughly covers and endorses the use of Twinkle. Twinkle is an application for the iPhone, currently you have to have "Jail Broken" your iPhone to install it, that…
What Flickr video means to the rest of us
Over the last few days, and even for the last few months since the rumor began, I've been asked countless times what it means to Viddler that Flickr just jumped into the…
Seneca Lake on Sunday
Besides being cool, a gorgeous day.
Tasting by the lake
Sparkling wines and Sherry.
Lunch in NY
Eating lunch during a wine tour break.
Using an iMac as a photo frame
My first Macintosh computer was a white iMac G4 with a beautiful 17" floating screen above, what some have referred to as an upside-down bowl, a computer enclosed in a half-circle case….
I WANT PHP – A Google App Engine application
This is great. If you haven't seen it, or seen my link to it, Google App Engine is a new service provided by Google to help scale web applications built with, as…
Viddler’s WordPress 2.5 plugin version 1.1 beta 1
Now you might understand why the links and notes have died down here on my site lately – it is because I've been hard at work getting Viddler's video commenting plugin, the…
Odd tab dragging behavior in Safari 3.0
A few of my geekiest and most nit-pickiest brain cells just exploded. After reading about Safari's odd tab dragging behavior, on two different Web sites on the same day, I am not…
Working remotely
Working at Panera Bread.
Offices in Tube Carriages (trains)
Office space is always being redefined – this is no exception. A company in London has put their offices, which are somehow perched atop a building, inside what they call "tube carriages"….
Rechargeable batteries
I am starting to get annoyed with these. My rechargeable batteries don't seem to last as long as I'd like them to.
Shooting Train car 35708
At nearly 60F, I had to get outdoors, even if it were only for 20 minutes or so.
Stranger Photos Have Happened
From the ever-growing departments of "I wish I thought of this" and "I may even still do this myself" comes this: Someone left a disposable camera on a benched, tied by a…
The Lightsabre Interview: John Mollo
John Mollo, Academy Award winning costume designer, is interviewed by Lightsabre.co.uk. He says this about his work on Star Wars. "I fins I am very self-critical when I see my work on…
Train car 35708
Date taken: April 8th, 2008 Old, abandoned, and abused.