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More opaque than transparent but I believe this is a pretty good mix. Cultured Code shares some insight into upcoming version(s) of Things. More software companies should offer insight like this.

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Inspired by Chris Masto’s Workspace shot on Flickr – here is my way-too-messy desk. Made with Pano for iPhone.

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A few photos from fishing the other night with my friend Johnny. I posted a pretty wicked toothed Walleye on that night but we ended up with a pretty decent catch in a relatively short period of time. Huzzah.

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I’m not a guitar player, but I’m a very, very big fan of guitar players. The world lost perhaps the most influential slayer today. Les Paul has died.

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Summary update: If you read this entire post you will learn that it was only my WordPress.com account, and the account of the company that I had access to, that was affected. This was not a widespread issue with all WordPress.com accounts. Here is what I learned from all of this. — original post below

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Have you ever said something and say "That didn’t come out right"? What about this? Have you ever been a little less than patient and do or say something a little bit too soon? Or, or maybe this? Have you ever thought you were doing something exactly the way that you should only to look […]

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I was in the mood for a long post title. Sue me. My thoughts on URL shortening services are pretty public but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a need for them. I prefer Bit.ly over any other URL shortening services that I’ve used to-date. With Tr.im dying I thought that there was always […]

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This guy had some wicked teeth!

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Easily one of my favorite TV-series of all time. Thanks to Tim Crowe for reminding me. Tim, you’ve just taken up a huge portion of the rest of my summer. And I shall love every second of it. Here we go, Season 1 Disk 1 Episode 1.

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TechCrunch reports that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. I suppose my question last week about who uses FriendFeed now has an answer: Everyone that uses Facebook.

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Page not found. Error 404. Those of us that build Web sites for a living have all had to deal with creating these pages. Planning for people to stumble across a URL that we don’t plan on is fairly important to the user’s experience on your site. However, many 404 pages could be done better. […]

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I’ll try to keep this a short and sweet question, but this one does have a bit of background so let me catch you up. FriendFeed is leading the way in many areas. Their API is really, really well done. The stuff they do real time is great. The fact that they have groups, allow […]

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A feature that has been sorely needed on Viddler since day one has now finally made it out of cold storage and onto the main site. Using an image that you upload, rather than using a still frame from within the video, as the video’s default thumbnail (or, the frame you see before you hit […]

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The Sambo Swag in his natural habitat.

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Lately Twitter’s Trending topics have been full of nearly worthless junk and people asking "Why is ______ trending?". I hope that their removal from the home page is both temporary and evidence that they’re trying to address the problems related to that. Update: 8:13am EST: And they are back. Update 10:20 am EST: Twitter.com, and […]

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The White Stripes Weird Al Charles Nelson Reilly JibJab = Weird Al: C.N.R.. There is no way in the world I would miss this.

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I’ve been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome right. Not for Google, really. For us, the users. As it stands Safari is far and away the best browser available on the […]

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Me, on The Viddler Developers Blog: "The Viddler team is using CodeIgniter more and more for our internal PHP projects. Obviously we need to use CodeIgniter with the Viddler API quite a bit so we figured we’d share with you how easy it is to include PHPViddler, the open source PHP API wrapper class for […]

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Due to cashier error we got two McFlurries for the price of one. Score!

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Click on the images to zoom. For much, much larger versions click here, and here. I’ve been remiss to update everyone on our current bird feeder situation. Since Eliza purchased the $1 bird feeder we’ve upgraded our offerings to our feathered friends many fold. First, we put out a bird-bath type feeder that, rather than […]

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I’m still on a Brightkite break. I’m not really sure how to quantify my feelings about Brightkite without sounding pedantic or somehow aloof. The people that work there are, no doubt, extremely concerned with the community that uses it and, from what I’ve seen, go to great lengths to keep the service up and running. […]

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[viddler id-533390ee h-357 w-420] As performed by Viddler member Musicreator. A beautiful piece to play loudly while programming, I assure you.

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I’ll be spending the rest of this week over on my Tumblr. I really need to give it a thorough run if I will ever know if Tumblr can replace my WordPress powered blog. Join me, won’t you?

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Adding to my 2hourfavs list is Donovan’s Restaurant in Archbald, PA. Donovan’s serves breakfast and lunch and is your quintessential "hole in the wall" diner. Although there is a much nicer, more welcoming side-entrance to Donovan’s the first time we visited the diner was through the less-than-welcome front door. If you saw it, and I […]

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If there is anyone that can grok Google Voice, review it, and relay that information in a way we can all understand – it is Paul Stamatiou. Here is Stammy’s first impressions of Google Voice.

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If you, like me, recently updated to a new Macintosh – you may have had this issue. It turns out that if you upgrade your version of Mac OS X to the latest version, install the latest iLife 09 updates, and use Migration Assistant to move from your old Mac to your new one – […]

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Speaking of Code Igniter, Jonathan Snook (way back in March 2007) compared it to CakePHP. Although both frameworks have matured slightly since then, this overview still holds up ok – although he is a fan of CakePHP where I’d choose Code Igniter. Thank goodness for choices.

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This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV. Made Fit TV‘s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and […]

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After digging around I managed to find these videos, from YouTube user TVOvermind, and I thought I’d share them here – in four parts (since such is the limitation of YouTube). Part one. Part two. Part three. Part four. Update: Part 5 provided by Tostie14. I’m all at once excited about the last season and […]

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InHawaiiNow.com, a new Web site by my very good friends Shane Robinson and Roxanne Darling of Barefeet Studios, tries to answer that question using real-time Twitter updates from users in Hawaii who generally cover specific topics. Example: Want to know what is going on in the music scene tonight in Hawaii? Check out the music […]

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Leah, the curator at House Obsession, recently visited an early 1800s Stone Mill located in central Pennsylvania. You may file this under ‘could stare at all day’. Since she doesn’t link to the full-sized photos from the images themselves, I’ve done so here. I hope this is ok Leah. Full sized photos: Stone mill, stone […]

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Try saying that five times fast. Green Bell Pepper preview… Gree… Nevermind. Someday very soon I’ll be posting an update about our garden – for now, here is a preview of how well our bell peppers are doing. Also of note: Chili peppers are, as the rumor was, very hot.

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NPR.org is getting a facelift on July 27th. As a way to promote the new redesign, allow people to see it, and to give feedback, NPR has created this promotional video and put it on YouTube. The video shows Scott Simon, one of NPR’s hosts, going through the site for the first time and describing […]

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Eating a Gombo at The Goose with Kyle, Jeff, and Rob. Incredisandwich. Related: I’m adding "The Goose" to my favorite places less than 2 hours from home list.

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Viddler all-star Kyle Slattery (right) is back from his semester in Germany. He’s already back at work and back to eating Gombos from The Goose. We’re happy to have him back and to feed him. Oh yeah, Rob Sandie is in this photo too.

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Long-time friend Josue Salazar asks, via Twitter: "Actually, is anyone still reading feeds? I bet many mainly live off of content people are tweeting links about. Sensational content != good." Sounds familiar.

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Long-time friend Josue Salazar asks, via Twitter: "Actually, is anyone still reading feeds? I bet many mainly live off of content people are tweeting links about. Sensational content != good." Sounds familiar.

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Long-time friend Josue Salazar asks, via Twitter: "Actually, is anyone still reading feeds? I bet many mainly live off of content people are tweeting links about. Sensational content != good." Sounds familiar.

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Long-time friend Josue Salazar asks, via Twitter: "Actually, is anyone still reading feeds? I bet many mainly live off of content people are tweeting links about. Sensational content != good." Sounds familiar.

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Long-time friend Josue Salazar asks, via Twitter: "Actually, is anyone still reading feeds? I bet many mainly live off of content people are tweeting links about. Sensational content != good." Sounds familiar.

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Long-time friend Josue Salazar asks, via Twitter: "Actually, is anyone still reading feeds? I bet many mainly live off of content people are tweeting links about. Sensational content != good." Sounds familiar.

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