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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it […]

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As I said in a recent Random 60 about haircuts, I am not too picky when it comes to my hair. Then, on the Twitter, I mentioned that I was thinking of cutting my own hair. Many of you said to go for it. Then, a few days ago Eliza came home with some clippers […]

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Another day, another great letter of note. I know I’ve suggested Letters Of Note in the past but today I must suggest this specific letter. A letter written by Wilbur Wright. My favorite letter so far. "With this general statement of my principles and belief I will proceed to describe the plan and apparatus it […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it […]

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I wanted to know what type of bike I should be saving for this coming spring. I fired off an email to the editor of I Am In Like With My Bike on Tumblr and they posted it to their Tumblog (mistypings and all). Nice. Update: Now I’m finding myself wishing they answered the question. […]

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One of my most favorite branding updates in recent memory, The New York Public Library gets a new logo and Brand New has the scoop. Side note: Glad to know I wasn’t the only one thinking "Simba!!". Image credit: Brand New.

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New favorite site and now book on my wishlist (which has been recently updated, btw): Bird book. /via Jason Kottke.

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Speaking of WordPress 2.9, here is an exhaustive feature list from Dougal Campbell.

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Yahoo! has announced that Flickr now has built-in Snapfish support through its (still one of the best Web apps ever) Organize & Create tool. It is about time. I hope Flickr and Yahoo! bank some serious dough on this deal.

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Or, as I like to call this particular video – YouTube video of the week. Again /via Jason Kottke.

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I didn’t realize that Quake Live was available for the Macintosh now. Thanks to Sebastiaan de With for letting me know (and for the fancy Fluid icon). There goes a few hours.

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Photo credit: Eliza Devroe. After a friend and I were talking about fishing this weekend I noticed that I never posted a photo of my biggest catch this summer – a 5-pound bass. As you can see from the photo I was soaking wet. Eliza, my friend Johnny, and myself walked to our fishing spot […]

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I don’t like to make it a habit of following people on Twitter that I haven’t met. But I’ve made a few exceptions – mostly people I know "online" but not off and celebrities. I was wondering tonight: "How many people do I follow that I haven’t met?". So I created a list for just […]

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What a great week on The Diet! As I said on the Twitter I was able to get a sufficient level of fitness in this week. On Tuesday I jogged six miles (or 10K), on Wednesday I did the P90X Kenpo X routine, on Friday I fit in another 5K jog, on Saturday I did […]

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While perusing Aaron Brazell’s always great 10 things you need to know about [the latest upcoming version of WordPress] for WordPress 2.9 I noticed that it will have oEmbed support. Back in June 2008 I added an oEmbed service to Viddler. That means that in the next version of WordPress you’ll be able to embed […]

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WordPress.com now supports geotagging for both the blog itself on WordPress.com and each individual post. Although there have been a few plugins that support this for the self-hosted WordPress none look as promising as the one running on WordPress.com now. So, where is the plugin?

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CodeIgniter is faster than its competitors by quite a margin. Glad we at Viddler chose it for our PHP-based solutions. /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.

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I know, hate is a strong word, but think about this for a moment (especially you new runners). Our entire lives we focus on self-preservation. From an early age we’re told "Don’t touch that, its hot." or "Don’t jump off of that, it is too high." And, obviously, this is good advice. It saves us […]

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On Wednesday my friend Chris and I ate dinner at Pete N’ Reenie’s in Eynon, PA – a 50s-style burger/shake joint. The food was delicious, the service was good (the owner was our waitress), and the place is altogether great. I think Pete N’ Reenie’s is going to quickly become one of my favorite places […]

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Delicious food, good service. Recommended.

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Recent piece from Khoi Vinh puts the amount of money that the New York Yankees spend on payroll into perspective. Short version: The Yankees spend a lot of money on payroll but compared to their revenues they spend less than some other teams when compared to their revenues. Read the long version though, it is […]

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Chris Messina, founding father of the the ever-popular (and sometimes not) Hashtag, has proposed a few more syntax specific ways of doing things on Twitter. Chris is suggesting that we use /via instead of (via @cdevroe), /by for quote credits, and /cc for carbon-copying messages to specific people on Twitter. Chris gives good examples for […]

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If you’re a Star Wars geek, like I am, then you’ve probably seen the photo of Princess Leia and her stunt double soaking up some sun during a Return of the Jedi shoot. The Official Star Wars Blog decided to set the record straight about the origin of the photo – since some of the […]

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My recent jogging resurgence has taught me a little bit about my own body’s memory. It turns out that my lungs have not forgotten that this past spring I was jogging a lot. That I was jogging further and further and more consistently than any other time in my entire life. And that I was […]

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Someone flipped a box lid on top of themselves.

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I didn’t eat very well this week. I ate more than I should have, and drank too much beer (my goal was to only drink beer one evening this week, and I think I drank like three or four evenings). I did well with beginning my exercise routine again though. I ran on Tuesday, Friday, […]

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Sometimes we communicate this way in the morning. Isn’t Pookers cute?

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Photo credit: AP Photo/Kevin Frayer. This is a fantastic image. Not that I’d expect anything less from The Big Picture.

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[viddler id-e0f2f376 h-280 w-420] Random 60: What time do you wake up? I wake up every morning around 6:45a. I love it. Back in 2006 I was getting up at 7. As I get older, I’m getting up earlier. But really, I enjoy waking up early and getting things accomplished. It is when I work […]

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You know all of the jokes that I’m thinking about right now. So I don’t need to type them.

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This guy deserved two photos.

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My friend Gary has been quoted as saying "Community starts with one". In other words, a community can begin with just one person besides yourself. If you are building an online community this fact can quickly be, and wrongfully so, ignored due to the massive amount of people online. It isn’t very long into any […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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Another nice post about LessConf, this time by @Yardboy, and he gives his general thoughts about each presentation and the conference as a whole. Here is what he wrote about Yours Truly: "Colin Devroe from Viddler seemd to have a lot of fun with his talk. Steve and Allan issued a series of challenges across […]

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Continued from Day two: The shell. The warmth of the egg startled him at first. He never expected, in this cold, for the egg to be as warm as it was. Putting his hand back on the egg he tried to gauge the temperature of this massive, greenish egg that had suddenly appeared in his […]

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Just kidding. These are moving boxes. I got ya though didn’t I?

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Like I’ve said before, I’ve been on Twitter since November 2006 and I wanted to know the total number of followers my account has ever had. Even though I’ve only (and I say that with humility) got 1,700 followers currently – how many times has my account been "followed" over the last […]

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Belatedly inspired by Jeff Johns, I decided to reward myself after a decent 5K jog this afternoon with some eggs for lunch. I love eggs. I love toast. [I love cast iron](http://cdevroe.com/?s=cast iron).

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He loves to sit next to me when I read.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-6ff9519a h-280 w-420] Random 60: What does "microwave safe" actually mean? Seriously. Because it certainly doesn’t mean "not boiling hot and will melt your hand off if you warm up your dinner from last night in this crazy thing". Someone please answer this riddle for me. Don’t forget! You can view […]

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Continued from Day one: Discovery. NaNoDrawMo – Day two: The Shell. The appearance of the object was such that it was almost undeniably an egg. The shape, the texture, the way it sat upright on its bulging bottom in amongst some well-placed blades of grass made it quite obvious. Wait. Well placed? What placed this […]

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Here is an idea I really like. I’m sort of addicted to human curation. It is probably why I like magazines and newspapers so much. Someone decides what is worth putting on the front page of those things, rather than only the popularity of something. Listorious is a curated directory of Twitter’s new feature Lists. […]

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Recently the IconFactory guys, the same guys that brought you Twitterrific for the Mac and iPhone, Frenzic (another great game), RampChamp (another great game), and many other well-made things, found a bug in iTunes that potentially cost them loads of dough. To help out, here is a link to their new game for the iPhone […]

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Not a bad way to end a good day.

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This last week was probably my worst ‘food week’ on the diet in a very long time (besides our cruise, vacations don’t count on my diet). I started off the week right by going on a hike but I didn’t get too much exercise after that. Which would have been ok if it weren’t for […]

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