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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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NaNoDrawMo – Day one: Discovery. Ted Arnold, a farmer from New England, notices what appears to be an egg just outside of his barn. Cautiously he approaches the object wondering where it may have come from. As he stares at it for a few minutes from about 10 feet away he remembers a distant memory […]

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I’m loving this book. Too bad it doesn’t help me with my cats!

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Jason Fried recently wrote a tip for speakers that start off their presentations at conferences or any type of public speaking by saying "Sorry, I didn’t have time to prepare better" or something along those lines. His tip? Don’t say that. Jason is right. You shouldn’t say that. It makes people begin to wonder why […]

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[viddler id-120f30a5 h-280 w-420] Random 60: How do you get motivated? In today’s random 60 I ask where you find your inspiration but after viewing the video I realize what I really meant was how do you get motivated? After you’ve been working for a while on a particular thing and you notice your productivity […]

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I’m a big fan of Webkit. Although I had been a die hard fan of Safari for a while I’m now using Google Chrome as my primary browser. The great thing about Chrome is that it too uses the Webkit rendering engine. I’ll catalog my reasons for using Chrome in another post. The next version […]

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Todd Troxell, our "Super System Admin" at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it "how […]

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Mary Ann waits patiently for me to take her to work.

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[viddler id-3d73076 h-280 w-420] Random 60: What is your favorite music genre? Special guest Jeff Johns, a friend and fellow Viddler team member, has a particular taste in music so I put him on the spot to name his favorite music genre. My favorite music genre would have to be Rock. What is your favorite […]

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I know we’re 1/3 of the way through Fall but for those of you that haven’t yet visited the site in a little while – come take a look at the Fall refresh.

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Good API design is essential to an API being used. The design of an API can be extremely daunting when you are just starting out with a new service so here are a few tips that can help you along the way to build a good, usable API. Use your own API. The very best […]

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I recently finished reading Prey by Michael Crichton. I’m a big Crichton fan for nearly no other reason than because my first book that I ever read, on my own without the nagging of any teachers or parents, was Jurassic Park. That and he knows how to write a book that makes you want to […]

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[viddler id-ab61be33 h-280 w-420] Random 60: TXT or call? Which would you prefer? Do you like getting text messages or would you rather someone give you a call and have a conversation about what they want? Are you like me and you’d like phone calls from family and friends for conversation but would rather a […]

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Guardian has a list of species that we’ve either lost or may lose in this decade alone. Sad. Via Jason Kottke.

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Thanks to Ethan Beard, who is as I type hosting Facebook’s Developer Garage, for including the Viddler logo in his slide about applications on Facebook.

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I’m thinking of participating in NaNoDrawMo an art initiative that takes place through the month of November. The inspiration comes from Steven Frank (whom I interviewed a few months ago) and he was inspired by NaNoWriMo the month-long annual writing initiative that happens every November. It seems like a big challenge. 50 works of art […]

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[viddler id-d2a0e47 h-280 w-420] Random 60: I love leftovers. One of my favorite foods is leftovers. Pretty much anything that is leftover from the night before will do – but certain foods stand out. Some, in fact, seem to be even better the next day than they are on the first day. Soups, Mac & […]

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The way Kyle talks about Git is much the same as I talk about cookies. Sort of makes me want to grab a tall glass of milk and dive into Git. Here is his perfect Git workflow for a one person project.

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[viddler id-b6549b4a h-278 w-420] Something new from Viddler today. Something we’ve been working on for quite a while. Viddler Analytics is a new feature that makes it easy to understand complex video statistics. Looking forward to seeing how our customer base reacts to this one.

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My friend Raymond and I took a quick hike to shoot photos on the top of Elk Mtn. A great way to kick off this next stage of The Diet.

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My friend Raymond and I hiked to the top of Elk Mountain this evening, trying to take advantage one of the last nice days for this fall, and took some photos of various things. Here are some of mine.

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It is hard to believe that The Diet is about 3 and a 1/2 years old. It was over three years ago that so many of us decided to get healthy, lose some of our extra weight, and try to help one another stay motivated to do it. It still surprises me to look back […]

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Thanks to Scott Meade for taking really good notes from my How to Measure Success presentation from LessConf in Jacksonville, Florida. Consider this a teaser for the forthcoming video. Photo credit: Mr Noded.

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Thanks to Scott Meade for taking really good notes from my How to Measure Success presentation from LessConf in Jacksonville, Florida. Consider this a teaser for the forthcoming video. Photo credit: Mr Noded.

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Thanks to Scott Meade for taking really good notes from my How to Measure Success presentation from LessConf in Jacksonville, Florida. Consider this a teaser for the forthcoming video. Photo credit: Mr Noded.

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