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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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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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So this is a bit to chew. My friend and follow Viddler team member Kyle Slattery, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, suggested on my suggestions page (which has a little spam on it right now, sorry about that) that I write about some "favorite places you’ve visited less than 2 […]

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This little guy was hanging out on our eggplant.

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Roz Savage, the Ocean Rower I linked to the other day, recently mentioned that she was a feature on Bing.com’s home page. Since I’m a few days behind on reading her posts she was no longer featured on the home page by the time I got there. I noticed that Bing.com’s home page features have […]

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Keyboard shortcuts, both for the browser itself and for Web sites that take advantage of them, can be extremely powerful. Google Reader set the precedent for keyboard shortcuts by working through a stream of information using J to advance and K to move backward through the stream. The Big Picture, Ffffound, and now Tumblr’s Dashboard […]

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To many of you this may seem like a no brainer but I thought I’d share the way I use Twitter’s favorite feature anyway because I’ve found it very valuable over the last few months. In nearly every Twitter application, and on the site itself, you may favorite a Tweet with minimal effort. On the […]

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Mondays are notoriously the least favorite day of the week. The end of the weekend. The beginning of the work week – no matter how you look at it, it isn’t good. Which is why I love that No Reservations is on Monday night. What better way to cap off an otherwise crappy day? Tune […]

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Eliza and I did a little fishing with my friend Johnny and his kids Kristopher, Micailyn, and Nicolas on Wednesday. Fishing with kids is always an adventure.

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WANTS! A personal life goal is to go across country in one of these babies.

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Decided to try my hand at the aforelinked Odosketch. Taking inspiration from the Black-eyed Susans I drew this. Pretty neat to see it played back.

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Michael Heilemann recently had an idea for a comment system based on Twitter @replies. Not a new idea, to be sure, as there are several rather well-documented solutions for this floating around out there. But that isn’t the bit I’m interested in with his post. I’m interested in the bit where he says he misses […]

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[viddler id-1c6c90f4 h-278 w-420] To say that I’m excited, wouldn’t be enough. You all know where I will be on Monday. Sitting on my couch, mouth gaping, a warm pool of drool at my feet, staring at my television – listening to the snarkiest man alive – Anthony Bourdain – talk about meat, fat, butter, […]

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I played around with Odosketch for a few minutes and at first glance – it is one of the better ‘in-browser’ sketching tools out there. I look forward to working with it in the future. Via David Kaneda.

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