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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The earthquake, which had an epicenter just offshore in Maule, Chile, has sent tsunami warnings across the entire Pacific region including Hawai’i, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and many other countries. Additional resources CNN.com has a lot information but no single URL. USGS map of South America. Tons of aftershocks. The Pacific Tsunami […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] One of the best places to track the tsunami that will be hitting Hawai’i in a few hours is the #hitsunami tag on In Hawaii Now.

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Kids Snow = Generally an awesome time (and soreness).

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Five years ago today: We were at a hockey game.

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Cape Lookout off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina in October, 2008.

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I was digging through this interview of GitHub developer Scott Chacon trying to find the most quoatable portion to paste here in hopes that you’d follow the link to the interview to read it. The fact is, though, the entire interview is dripping with awesome. Read it. /via Simon Willison.

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This has been passed around a bit lately but it is just too awesome not to share. Here is an image showing the Mariana Trench to scale showing a human being, a Blue Whale, and some various depths as you work you way down 36,000ft. of water. Amazing. /via John Gruber (who called it "Spooky".)

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Tumblr is rolling out updates to its API. I’m liking the updates that I’m seeing so far and I think Tumblr could really benefit from having a stronger API offering.

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Eliza, my mother-in-law Carla and I took a drive last week to visit a few wineries along the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail. Due to winter hours, a long lunch, and some shopping – we only got to two wineries along the trail. The first winery was Amoré in Nazareth, Pa. Although having recently been through a […]

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A few years ago, and I have the video to prove it, I said that I wanted to try to eat 100 chicken McNuggets from McDonald’s. Those whom I asked to try the challenge with me refused (looking back this was a wise choice) and so it never happened. Since then, however, I’ve always wanted […]

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Yesterday Google began to release Google Buzz to its Gmail users. Buzz appears to be a compelling service – especially since it plugs right into something many of us use already. For more information about what Buzz is and does visit the Google Buzz site for a nice demo. I can’t have much more of […]

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A few more hands before our friend Burke goes away for two months.

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Saw this at 12:30 on Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Routes 106 and 247. Everyone seemed to get out OK though.

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Last August I complained about Tumblarity and I wasn’t alone. Many people didn’t like how Tumblarity motivated the Tumblr community to post and repost drivel and I’m very happy to see that the Tumblr team has, as far as I can tell from my desk, decided to do away with it. But I also said […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This is too awesome for words but I’ll try my best anyway. Jorge Garcia, whose blog I’ve been subscribed to for – well, a long time now, has started a LOST podcast – aptly named Geronimo Jack’s Beard (presumably in tribute to Geronimo Jackson which has been mentioned on LOST a few […]

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For months I’ve been using Chromium the open source browser that powers Google Chrome. Using Chromium had its advantages and disadvantages. I had the bleeding edge of what was offered by the Chromium team – whether it was stable or not. But, I also had to manually update my personal copy of Chromium on a […]

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Or, maybe we should call it Talk Internet now? Talk radio still sounds better. Anyway… Dan Benjamin, who like me has always been a very big fan of talk radio, has launched a new network for audio podcasts called 5 by 5 Studios. I’ve listened to the first few episodes of each of his shows […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Who says blogs are dead? Lets have a live discussion about tonight’s upcoming episode of LOST Season 6, live, right here in the comments on my blog. To participate simply leave a comment below and wait for some replies. If you want, share a link to this post via Twitter, Facebook, or […]

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Speaking of icons for popular social media services, Komodo Media, who recently updated their collection, has a set of over 130 icons also.

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Icon Dock (love the name, branding, pretty much everything) has just released a set of 50 icons based on today’s popular social media services in full vector including the one I love most. Very nice and very free. Be sure to check out their other products. Thanks Icon Dock. /via David Kaneda.

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Pack, by fellow Viddler team member and friend Andrew Smith, is a great utility to compress your CSS and JavaScript for deployment. The real meat of Pack comes from its ability to take an entire directory of scripts and compress them using a set of instructions. Nice work Andrew.

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LOST Season 6 starts on Tuesday. LOST Seasons 1 through 5, all one hundred and one episodes, are now available via Hulu to help you catch up!

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Here is a great example of a good extension written for Google Chrome. The RSS Subscription extension is built by someone on the Chromium team and it brings in the unified feed icon button into the location bar to subscribe to any feeds found on a site. Works perfectly, fits naturally, has a fair amount […]

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Neven Mrgan just changed my perspective on the name iPad. I don’t particularly care for it. However, Neven compares iPad to the name of some of the top gadgets currently getting press. Turns out, iPad is an excellent name now.

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Found this little gem tonight after I had made the mistake of ignoring a file that I had already added to my repo and had committed more than one change to and wanted to remove the file from my commit history completely. "One problem I see quite often in the #git channel on Freenode is […]

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I had published a placeholder link for the iPad when it was announced. I’ve now updated that post to include my impressions of the iPad based on the video, announcement video, and Web site. Kyle Slattery, whom you all should know by now, has also published a post about comparing the physical keyboard input with […]

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On the cusp of an announcement from Apple later this afternoon (or morning if you’re in San Francisco where the event is taking place) I thought I’d roundup my favorite posts about the Apple Tablet up until today. I want a big iPhone too – Of course, I just had to include my own post […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So, it has finally been announced. Now, what do I think about it? I have to admit that since it was announced, about 36 hours ago now, my opinion of the iPad has swung back and forth like a blade of grass in a stiff breeze. I sit here (on the couch no […]

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Playing Scrabble this evening this rule came up. How many points does a player get if they use all 7 tiles if some of their tiles fall on premium squares? "If a player uses all seven of the tiles in the rack in a single play, a bonus of 50 points is added to the […]

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As a sort of pet project of mine I’ll be committing updates to a Google Chrome Extension for Viddler.com. There is very, very little there so far but there will be more over time. If you have a hand for creating cool Google Chrome Extensions feel free to contribute.

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This is pretty great and something I’ve never seen before. [The ColorADD System](http://coloradd.net/codigo EN.htm) is a system of ‘codes’ that can be used to identify colors for people that are color blind. By knowing each color’s specific code, as well as a particular syntax, the person can discern just about any color in the spectrum. […]

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When someone says they are going to go freelance this is the first piece of advice that I give them. "Work for free or for full price. Never for cheap." /via we(heart)it.

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What can I say, it has been a bird feeder weekend. Something I learned from my father is that it is very easy to put together your own bird feeder. Using what I remembered from him, I grabbed a branch of Birch tree and hollowed out a few holes, filled them with a peanut butter […]

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I wish I could handle email this way. Richard Stallman, the guy behind GNU and a self-proclaimed free software advocate and campaigner, only signs onto the Internet to send email a few times per day. "Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe three times a day […]

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The temperature has finally gotten above freezing. I took it as an opportunity to get two more bird feeders (in addition to the one we have on our deck) up.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] A few days ago I updated to the latest nightly build of Chromium, something I do every few days using TechCrunch’s Chrome-Up application, and was elated to discover that Chromium finally has a Bookmark Manager. Up until this release I was unable to edit any of the bookmarks that I had imported […]

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Ever wonder how long it would take to type the exact same message on a Macbook, iPhone, a Newton, a Treo, or even actually writing it down on a pen and paper? Wouldn’t it be neat if someone did just that and then shared the results? Phil Gyford did too. Phil compared writing the same […]

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As you may recall Bernie has a support control center on his desk. Today I came into Viddler HQ to discover that he’s pretty much a switcher.

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I’ve got an idea for the Google Reader team. When someone on Viddler, or Twitter or Facebook "follows" me I get an email letting me know. This gives me an opportunity to identify who is following me, learn about them as people instead of just statistics and perhaps even follow them back if I want […]

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Jorge Quinteros on Avatar: "It’s by far James Cameron’s finest pieces of work and although I’ll be one of the many to grab a Blu-Ray copy, seeing it in theatre is an experience you should not miss out on regardless of how big your Hi-Def TV is. Even the 3D-glasses supplied were a considerable upgrade […]

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Revision3, the Internet video network that brought you DIGG Nation, The Totally Rad Show, Scam School, and other very popular video podcasts, is offering Conan O’Brien a spot on their network. What’s more they are offering a fair stake in the company itself to Conan if he decided to make the jump. Jim Louderback, the […]

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The PHP5 script that I use to send my mobile photos to Twitter that was bounced back and forth a few times back in December has now been officially moved to GitHub. After searching on GitHub for scripts that did the same thing I didn’t come up with much. Hopefully this both fills that void […]

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Here is a bit of perspective regarding the recent outbreak of earthquake news. The Earth quakes quite a bit. In fact, it could probably be said that somewhere on the Earth, at any given time, there is an earthquake occuring. Some are felt, some aren’t, most are now being measured. Lets look at the last […]

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I have different reasons for saving favorites on each service that I use. I figured I’d take some time to explain the reasons by listing out the services on which I save favorites and why. Also of note is that these reasons happened naturally and were not the result of me trying to think of […]

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I’ve been using Chrome as my default browser for nearly six months. It won Best Browser in my Best of 2009 list. I didn’t even realize it had been that long until I went back through some of [the things I wrote about Chrome here in First initial, last name](http://cdevroe.com/?s=chromium chrome). To be more specific, […]

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This is absolutely fantastic. It appears as though Conan O’Brien put The Tonight Show for sale on Craigslist. Craigslist appears to have taken the page down. Bummer. /via Mashable.

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No matter how fast your computer is there is a slight delay between asking an application to open and it actually being opened. Depending on the size of the application and how well it was built, this time may vary. I have a still top-of-the-line 15" unibody Macbook Pro and even small applications take a […]

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Dave Shea has put together a rather fascinating list of some of the things that have happened since the release of Internet Explorer 6 on August 27, 2001 (a browser that is still in use).

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When was the last time you saw a free update like this roll out from you know who? I suggest you grab a copy of Acorn 2.2 and test it out for yourself. Awesome.

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Bernie‘s ‘computer bank’ for Viddler support is pretty awesome.

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