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I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

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I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

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I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

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I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

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I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

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I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

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I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

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I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

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I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

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I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

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[viddler id-dea1f56f h-405 w-640] If you couldn’t attend MagicRuby in Orlando, Florida you can view some short and sweet video interviews with some of the attendees and speakers over on Viddler.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I can not tell you how much this resonates with me. I spent the better part of my childhood trying to move things using The Force.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m not sure why but I’m on a command line kick lately. Not just the Tron Legacy style for Terminal but I’ve now begun using iTerm2 as my Terminal application of choice. I have it in a second Space on Mac OS X fullscreen with 3 shells running. The first shell is […]

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A few steps backward, a few steps forward. The last two weeks have been pretty much a wash – but I’m glad that I’m back on track and headed in the right direction – down. This weekI weighed in, again, at 200lbs. The same asI did on January 18th. SoI’ve lost the 2 pounds that […]

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I know, my blog is turning into a Tumblr-a-thon. But I’ve done this before when I used to talk about Brightkite, Ma.gnolia, WordPress, Twitter and other services that I become attached to and care about. This is my blog and I can cry if I want to. Here is how David Karp, founder of Tumblr, […]

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Given my recent spat on Tumblr about their downtime and the messaging coming from their team and investors, I thought this quote by Jason Fried of 37Signals in INC. was apropos: "Of course, all companies experience episodes like this. How they handle the situation is what counts. I’m not talking about fixing the problem—you have […]

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I have been a supporter of OpenID for a long time. But I agree with the decision by 37signals to drop it. What could have been never happened and, as it would seem that not much is being done to fix that, it would be better to just get rid of it so as to […]

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I’ve already said all I’ve wanted to say about why I don’t think Tumblr’s team and investors should be focused solely on traffic. But, it appears they still are. Bijan Sabet, partner at Spark Capital and one of the lead investors in Tumblr, today on his tumblog: "i gotta talk to @davidkarp about this. if […]

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The last time I did The Diet I had a "gain week" on the second week. This time it took me 6 weeks to have a "gain week". The reasons? The excuses? They are many. Ridiculously cold weather, the NFL playoffs, eating well, etc. But none of those really matter. Having a "gain week" isn’t […]

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Not many people know how well suited Viddler‘s platform is for developing on top of. Kyle Slattery and I are heading to Florida in a few weeks to attend Magic Ruby to let some talented Ruby developers know just that. We’ve set up a special page on Viddler just for Magic Ruby to help let […]

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As I just announced on the Viddler blog, Apostrophe – the amazing CMS built by my friends at Punk Avenue, now includes deep support for Viddler. Huzzah!

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m not sure I dig this (as I think it removes the entire point of an iPad) but I will give 100 points for style to the iPad Keyboard Case that effectively turns the iPad into a laptop.

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Half the distance to the goal. NFL referees usually use this term as a unit of measure for a penalty against the defense. Depending on what that goal may be, a first down or the end zone, the distance differs. In this case, it is exactly 20 pounds, and the defense is my fat. Today […]

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I have to say, this makes very little sense. It is the Chrome team’s prerogative to add or remove any feature from their browser that they’d like to but the reasons they’ve given simply do not make much sense. At least not from my desk or the desk’s of others. John Gruber, as he typically […]

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This week I rested on my laurels just a bit. I didn’t work out a single time (other than my weekly basketball routine) and I even drank a few beers. I think I have a fairly good excuse about the beer though – I went to the Eagles vs. Packers playoff game. However, that is […]

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Tomorrow my parents will have just hit their 42nd wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary to them. /photo credit: Peter Devroe.

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Taken in February 2009 in [Carwanna in Carbondale, PA](http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&expIds=17259,27586,27856,28060&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&cp=22&qe=Y2FyYXdhbm5hIGNhcmJvbmRhbGUsIHBh&qesig=rnnUGI7sMdrWWB_iEJN9KA&pkc=AFgZ2tl_Ea3FNMFocT7IS2XjL-tw25HxZAjPAkR_WWCzogwGUTX19RvVMqZDTJUKRIe6KD1TksqZKya4PPGRWxwZrPfGGijd1A&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=carwanna carbondale pa&fb=1&gl=us&hq=carwanna&hnear=Carbondale, PA&cid=11571800602353308970).

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every since seeing Tron Legacy I’ve wanted Flynn’s computer. From what I’ve heard on the Interwebs it runs Sun Solaris. Since I’m a Mac guy maybe I can have my Terminal look like The Grid’s UI without needing to run an entirely different OS. I’m basing this style solely off of this […]

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One of the fun parts of making wine is making the wine label. Eliza really loves having a wine label per wine that we make. For the most part we’ve been able to do this with any of the good wine batches we’ve made. Here are a few of them.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So it turns out my fears have been abated. The Mac App Store is great. Simply run Software Update on any Macintosh running Snow Leopard.

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How quickly things change! I’ve been praising Tumblr over the last several months because it has been an excellent tool to build The Watercolor Gallery with. And it still is, except since I began building The Watercolor Gallery Tumblr has been, well, tumbling down in the minds and hearts of some of their core users. […]

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Speaking of RSS to Twitter (which now supports OAuth by the way) the reason I was able to update that project so easily was due to the generosity of Tijs Verkoyen who has an open source PHP wrapper for just about every API you need.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] My handy dandy little script that makes it easy to parse an RSS feed and send links to Twitter using PHP just got a nice little update. It now supports OAuth and has been cleaned up quite a bit. Oh, version 1.0 is still available.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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It has been a frigid, snowy week here in Pennsylvania which has kept me from doing the jogging I said I wanted to do last week. But I still did great on The Diet this week. My exercise routine was very thin this week. I need to make it a goal to do something active […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] If only these guys did the packaging for, well, everything.

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ejveal on Viddler graciously shared a snippet of C# to upload video to Viddler. Thanks for that Eric. /via the Viddler Developers Group.

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John Gruber’s lashing of the news media on the Web about their page titles reminded me that I hadn’t cleaned up the titles provided by default by my current WordPress theme. I’ve cleaned up my titles thanks to his reminder. You should too.

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Speaking of diets; my friend and ex-coworker Brandice Schnabel is in a Size 8 pant. Go girl.

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Instagram has hit 1,000,000 users in only a few short months. I’m one of them. /via Dan Rubin on Twitter.

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I can’t believe that week one is already over and that I’m already doing the second weigh in. I don’t know if it is because I’ve done this before or just that this week was a particularly busy one – but time sure does fly. The results for this week are very, very good. The […]

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Reach 1,300 aspiring artists for only $80. This deal won’t last very long. More about the sponsorship here and also the post on the gallery itself.

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