The conversion rate is growing
The numbers make it obvious, but the experience makes it real. Recently I've had a lot of family members, friends, and even people I've never met before tell me that they were…
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This week at Viddler
As some of you know I've joined the Viddler team for a month to help build up some of the community over there. It has been a fun first three days. I…
Weigh in: Week Thirty Two
I was able to weigh myself however. I was 190.2 pounds on Tuesday morning. You might say: "Some diet this guy is on, he keeps going up and down, up and down!"….
A video reply to my recent ideas on entertainment
Last week I wrote "Stop being entertained by today and try to be yourself" which, in short, was some of my thoughts on how I need to make an effort to do…
My 2007 Web 2.0 Death list
Paul Scrivens recently said he'd like to see three "Web 2.0" companies (or services) go the way of the dinosaur in 2007. He also asked for people to post theirs, and there…
Our first photo day
Eliza and I had our first "photo day" today. We've been meaning to do this for quite awhile but we've not been able to find the time until today. Oh, and the…
Recent \”strange\” weather might be worse for us than good
It was 66-degrees yesterday here in Northeastern Pennsylvania and today it was around 50 and is raining right now. In "Hotlanta" (Atlanta, Georgia) it was snowing (or so reports the National Weather…
Testing out Viddler
One of our clients at ChanceCube recently released a public beta of their service; Viddler. I wrote on ChanceCube how much I think the service is great, then I recorded a really…
Stop being entertained by today and try to be yourself
Over the last few months something has come to my attention that has slowly revealed itself in a few different forms. Being entertained by "what is happening today" gets boring really fast…
Trying to observe the moon
My telescope Last night the moon was nearly full and the sky was crystal clear. So I decided to take my Meade 114 eq-asb telescope that Eliza bought me for our seventh…
Why I’ve not weighed in for two weeks
Short answer: Vacation. Had some family visiting – which obviously completely knocked me off my diet and exercise routine. I'm really looking forward to getting back into routine, starting today, but I'm…
Weigh in: Week Twenty Nine
This weekend I ate the worst food I have eaten in more than twenty nine weeks. We got together with some friends on Friday night and Saturday night and we at "junk…
Doing the Panera Bread thing again
I've written about Panera before. How it, and other cafes with free wifi, provide a good solid atmosphere for clearing your head all while getting some work done. Mike thinks I smell,…
Finger puppets from Niagara Falls in 2003
Google recently announced the release of their patent search. I thought I'd do a little sniffing around to see what I could find and to my surprise I stumbled onto this patent…
Five questions for successful dieters
While doing some dishes today I thought of starting a "meme" of sorts. How could I capture the reasons why I think I've been successful on the diet and help to encourage…
I need more storage so that…
I need more storage so that… I don't have to make rash decisions on what personal data to keep (especially photos) just because I'm running out of room on my laptop. I…
Weigh in: Week Twenty Eight
Last week I was 189.6 pounds and this week I'm up 0.4 pounds and sitting pretty at 190.0 pounds. Let me tell you thought, this is a miracle in itself due to…
A dead field mouse
If you were to go to Amazon.com, or any other service that allows you to create a wish list, and created a wish list – I doubt that a dead field mouse…
Weigh in: Week Twenty Seven
I weighed in this morning at 189.6 pounds, up 3 pounds since 8 weeks ago. I am very surprised at this number since I thought I'd have gained more than only 3…
Re: The usefulness of Microformats
Kyle Kneath recently wrote I just don't get this whole Microformats thing and I wanted to take a minute to respond to him. Kyle is doubting the usefulness of Microformats, and is…
The state of the diet
I've been asked in many ways about the state of the-diet. I've put off an update until I had chosen a direction to go with it since I'm now in a different…
Not all Frostys are created equal
Andrew, Chris, Mike, and I appreciate the Wendy's Frosty. Eliza does too but she thinks the vanilla is good so we'll leave her out of this discussion. We have a few Wendy's…
Bridges washed out in Clifford
For those of you wonder how Eliza and I are doing since there was some major bridge damage in Clifford – we don't live in Clifford anymore. We moved. We've not heard…
Keyword Manager for iPhoto
I was half expecting to write a very long, detailed review of the Keyword Manager for iPhoto. However, I will not. I will just say that if you are the type of…
I’ll bite. I’ll give Twitter a try.
I do not recommend installing any Safari plugins
There are quite a few handy Safari plugins out there. Most of them try to help make up for what Safari lacks, and normally I'd be all for trying to get the…
Leopard wish list – Part four: Finder
My wish list for the Finder is not as extensive as other's will be. Partly because I do not have as many complaints about the Finder as I've seen long-time Mac users…
Leopard wish list – Part three: iChat
Another application within the Mac OS that is open for most of my day is iChat. Many have chosen to use third-party chatting applications like Adium – but the ability to hold…
Leopard wish list – Part two: Mail
I'm not as much of a power-user of Mail as I probably could be. There are features of Mail that I simply do not use, and therefore my request for Mail are…
Leopard wish list – Part one: Safari
I fully realize that my "wish list" that I will be publishing is coming a little late to be included in the Spring-time update to the Mac OS – however it is…