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[viddler id-81f46650 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Watch those calories! Favorite on Viddler. Whether you are dieting or not it is always good practice to make sure you watch what you’re taking in. Calories can creep up on you. There are more calories in everyday food than most people would guess. In today’s Random 60 I […]

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John Gruber made an excellent point in his piece called "Twitter clients are a UI design playground". The excellent point I’m talking about is made apparent within the very title of the piece. That Twitter (I’m @cdevroe, btw) is an excellent playground for designing UIs for third party clients. Mike Rundle, whom I had the […]

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He really turns the app on its back and gives it a thorough look. He managed to find a few gems, in the first version of the application, that I never even new were there. Reading his review, albeit late and after an update has already been released for it, has inspired me to dive […]

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Right in front of the TV.

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22 hours of sleep is obviously not enough. 🙂

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This morning I saw Steven Frank’s link to a Dell 22-inch monitor that was selling for, at the time, $140. By the time I clicked on the link it was selling for $159 (still an incredible deal). Not three minutes later the site reads "Please call for latest prices."

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According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb Twitter has "crowned Bit.ly the King of all Short Links" and replaced TinyURL as the default URL shortening service that Twitter uses. (I’m cdevroe, btw) Scaling Bit.ly to keep up with the demands of Twitter, since Twitter is growing at a remarkable rate, is an obvious concern. Will Twitter […]

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This is where we play basketball on Mondays. Much nicer court, IMO, than the other two regular courts that we play at.

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You’ve all been waiting with baited breath, I know – but at long last, here it is – my weigh in for this, our sixth week back on the diet. It has been a great week. I ate very well this week. I don’t remember missing a single meal, I ate enough calories every day, […]

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Although the sketches only tell part of the story I really like to see this sort of process where the artist slowly brings the character to life. Each sketch is a character onto itself but finding Carl through all of these is the challenge/reward. I think my favorite tweak from the first Carl drawn to […]

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First of all, a note to all event holders – please take the care and time to record all of your speakers with slides like this. Web 2 Expo did a fantastic job putting these videos together and the world would be a better place if all of these tech conferences that are sprouting up […]

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Google is constantly updating their products. Most of these updates come via their "Labs" where they test out crazy and sometimes even crazier ideas for possible features and updates to their products. Google Image Search somewhat recently added the ability to search by color. Which I think is fantastic! Here is a search for moth, […]

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Working from Panera Bread today with Chris. I like the reflection of the lamp in my Macbook.

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[viddler id-4349764f h-280 w-420] Random 60: Back up your computer, right now. Favorite on Viddler. Chris recently had a complete hard drive failure. Fortunately for him most of his data, since he is a Web site developer, was "on the Web" somewhere. Everything else he had backed up on an external hard drive. Consider this […]

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If I were to graph my week of activity it’d look something like the silhouette of a camel standing in the sunset. The beginning of the week started out great with a really great basketball session on Monday and Wednesday and we finished off the week strong with some basketball on Sunday evening. In between […]

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Mmm, bacon. Seriously, if you don’t like cast iron – we may not get along. I won’t hate you or anything, I just won’t invite you to parties, want to hang out with you and discuss topics that are important to you, or generally take your opinion on anything seriously.

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I have yet to find the time to make the trek to Philadelphia for Junto, "a club of mutual improvement", but I have been paying attention to the visual works of P’unk Ave – the design studio run by my friend Geoff DiMasi and his excellent team – for the club. Namely, the posters. I’ve […]

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[viddler id-5ef97dad h-280 w-420] Random 60: What can save newspapers? Favorite on Viddler. Can anything save newspapers? Today I’m joined by Rob and Bernie, two of my coworkers, and we all have simple ideas that may help save the newspapers for us. For Rob he thought he needed to see more talk about technology in […]

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And that makes three. My lovely and talented wife Eliza posted her photos (and I forgot to link to them) in early April. She’s got some excellent shots of Scranton and the trains at Steamtown. In case you missed them, here are mine and Sameer Barkawi’s photos from the Scranton Photo Walk.

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Speaking of fruits… In my travels through the wonderful world of Viddler videos I came across this video interview with Adam Leith Gollner, the author of The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession. [viddler id-ce207ceb h-357 w-420] I may just have to become a fruit hunter. Sometimes I find it difficult […]

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Eliza and I are big fans of The Biggest Loser, a reality show about people trying to losing weight, and so when I saw that Jennifer DiDonato (Viddler member whom I interviewed on The Viddler Spotlight many months ago) interviewed the Season Two "at home" winner Pete Thomas I knew I just had to share […]

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Last night Sameer Barkawi finally published a few of the photos he shot during our Scranton Photo Walk last month. He’s got a few gems in this set. Oh, and in case you missed them, here are mine.

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Moments after this photo Pookers stole the Twizzler for himself.

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Since I’m posting mobile photos and notes to this site rather than a third-party service I figured I’d make those pages a little more condusive to viewing on a mobile platform. Also, to make my life a little easier, I’ve also set up a few little scripts to do things like Twitter a link to […]

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My Sixers sweatshirt watches the game from the bleechers. I’m playing really well tonight too. Must be the Playoffs.

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I just had to take a photo of this tree. I think it is a dogwood (if I’m wrong please correct me). This Dogwood is in full bloom and is on Jefferson Avenue in Scranton, PA. I wish I had seen it during the day.

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Taken: April 17, 2009 in Mayfield, Pennsylvania. The buds on the trees are pop, pop, popping into these really great explosions of tree life. Reds and greens of all shades, future leaves that will create the food that the tree requires to produce this year’s growth, next year’s seeds, and the energy it will need […]

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The term I use to describe my artistic distortion series when I see the lights in them is ‘squiggle’.

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Howard Hall, whom I’ve mentioned before and whom also leaves really great comments here on First initial, last name, is asking for some handwritten haiku for his fantastic haiku blog (non-breaking space). It couldn’t be more easy to participate: "I’d love to be able to post a few guest haiku of the handwritten variety. Anyone […]

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Yes, another Twitter client (I’m cdevroe by the way). However, this one comes from atebits – the company that brought us the highest ranked Twitter client for the iPhone, also named Tweetie. Tweetie for Mac, which I’ve been using all morning, allows for multiple accounts, posting from the browser, auto URL shortening, and much more. […]

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A bad start to the week and a strong finish resulted in me not losing a single pound this week on the diet. I didn’t hide this fact either. On Tuesday I let my competition know that his chance was now. I hope he took it. This week I’m going to try very hard to […]

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Brian is making his famous pizza. Looking forward to it.

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A red gate at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn, PA. I never knew this park was here.

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Long since abandoned. Fixer upper?

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Chris is frustrated at his miss on the 9 ball.

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I’ve done it before and I’m doing it again – I’m bringing all of my media back to this site (now called First initial, last name by the way). I’m going to be making small adjustments, enhancements, and do some all-out-late-night hacking in order to get this site up to snuff to handle notes, links, […]

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[viddler id-2e3a01e h-280 w-420] Random 60: Stop complaining! Favorite on Viddler. In the world of social media everyone has a voice. If you only have 1 follower on Twitter (I’m cdevroe, btw) or the only friends you have on Facebook (I’m on there too) are your relatives – it doesn’t matter – you have a […]

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Finally a stretch of days near 70F! If only I could see my screen I could work out here more often.

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Sunsets can always inspire. Though they are very hard to capture with even the best equipment.

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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[viddler id-1a226617 h-357 w-420] This video comes from Viddler member FootEmotion.com a fantastic site for those passionate about football (not the American-version). I see these videos pop up from time-to-time on my radar and I always want to share them. The leg grabs are of particular awesomeness. There are a ton more too.

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Since I’ve seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night’s episode of LOST, which was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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In the same vein as the Thank You card I made for my brother and his family comes this – a bookmark that I made back in January for Eliza. Since I’m just now getting the chance to post about this bookmark I thought I’d take some time to share the process I went through […]

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Date taken: April 1, 2004 Clifford, Pennsylvania. Five years ago today: I’m a little late posting this one but five years and about two weeks ago today I found this salamander – who was quite large – sitting on the steps outside of our apartment in Clifford, PA.

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Jacob Burke, like me, is taking a Brightkite break. His reasons are very close to my own. He writes: "There are things about the site that had me hooked for quite a while. But, I am starting to notice that it gets annoying to update my status on Brightkite and then go and check Twitter […]

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