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What do you get when you combine my favorite video podcast and my favorite tshirt retailer? An episode of WineLibrary TV on Threadless TV with Gary Vaynerchuk featuring a bunch of wines from Illinois. [viddler id-7342c537 h-348 w-540] I think I should start featuring a "you may not have seen this video" video here on […]

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From left: Gene Simmons, Kathleen Kinmont, Alana Curry. In the summer of 2003 the company I was working for at the time hired KISS for an event in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  I learned a lot during that entire process and I’ve finally found the time to write about one specific thing I learned by […]

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I’ve already written about Eat Weird, so I’ll spare you those details and just link you to the latest episode of Eat Weird, Episode 3, which is Master Chef Dave Ciminelli’s Wild Goose Breast Salad. [viddler id-10ea1cad h-348 w-540] I had the privilege of producing this, and the next four, episodes of Eat Weird. I […]

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When I used to watch X-Men as a young lad my favorite character was Gambit. Three X-Men movies have come and gone, no Gambit. Since then, Hugh Jackman has won me over as Wolverine and has quickly become my favorite character of the live-action movie series. Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Wolverine in X-Men […]

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I think it is safe to say that my nieces and nephews do not read my blog, so it is also safe to say that I will be making some sympathy dolls for them in a few weeks to send them out as gifts. The idea came to me from Bre Pettis‘ Make podcast, embedded below, where […]

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Troy Rutter, actor, blogger, author, and podcaster (busy man), was inspired by my most-recently blogged about watercolor, The Owl (which is for sale on my Etsy shop, btw) and posted this oil painting. One of the great things about the Web is that inspiration can spread in ways it never has been able to in […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Speaking of Bob Ross, you can watch a ton of his episodes online. Not all of the videos are complete episodes, so you’ll have to watch the duration closely. But, there are some gems. I blame Troy Rutter for me taking a stroll through my memories and wanting to watch a ton […]

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Why not? I ask myself that a lot. Yesterday I thought, why not put my art on Etsy? Etsy is the place to sell all things handmade, I am going to do a watercolor per week, so why not? I’ve only put The Owl on there for now, but I plan on putting other odds […]

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I’m loving that I’m able to write for Waking Ideas on a weekly basis. This week I cover my recent journey through the entire LOST series, again! 83 hours of television-watching goodness. Here is an excerpt: "I mean what else could I have done with roughly 83 hours of free time? Stretched out this is […]

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Note: This pieces is now for sale in my Etsy shop. I’m going to try to keep doing watercolor paintings, maybe even one each week. This week I really wanted to do an owl, so here I present my fifth watercolor in this new effort; The Owl. I tried a few techniques this time that […]

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As a follow up to some of the hijinks on Twitter between Heroes star Greg Grunberg and writer/actor Wil Wheaton, that I wrote about the other day, here is an interesting comic from – well, Hijinks Ensue. This comic shows them all on Macintoshes – which may only be partly accurate. I know that Obama […]

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I was able to write a guest post on Waking Ideas, a site run by two of my friends Daniel Nicolas and Jake Dahn. I thought it’d be fun to write about the recent event in our Solar System where Jupiter, Venus, and our Earth’s Moon had a little party. Source: Jupiter, Venus, and Earth’s […]

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On Sunday I thought it’d be a good idea to turn on Feedburner, the service that helps you track the number people subscribed to your feed ((Among other things like; what they subscribe with, what they click on in those feeds, etc.)), since I had turned it off a few years ago. Turns out, my reasons […]

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Date taken: July 15, 2003 – New York City.

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My long-time friend Chris Fehnel has launched a new video blog called Eat Weird. The premise is simple; Live well, Eat Weird. You see, many times us Americans (and perhaps many of you reading this that are not Americans) tend to think certain foods taboo. That is, you think they’re weird. Maybe you grew up […]

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David Recordon, who is the Open Platforms Lead Tech at Six Apart, has written one of the most insightful and interesting ideas for the adoption of OpenID I’ve seen in awhile. David suggests that your identity belongs in the browser. It is already in there anyway. For any of us that browse, for the most […]

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I’ve been waiting for WordPress 2.7 to be released before upgrading this site’s underlying software. In fact, I was considering even waiting as long as the first iterative release after 2.7 came out before upgrading. But it seems like the WordPress development team is really taking its time with this latest, and incredibly different, release. Which is […]

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Wil Wheaton, geek, actor, writer, etc. etc., was asked by Greg Grunberg, the actor that plays Matt Parkman on Heroes, to star in an upcoming episode of Heroes in a cameo role. Last night Eliza and I watched the latest episode of Heroes that starred both Seth Green and Breckin Meyer as cameos (perhaps there […]

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Speaking of watercolor painting – I thought these pieces, and prints, by Oliver Jeffers were rather inspiring. Source: Picture Book Prints by Oliver Jeffers. Via: OMG Posters.

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Although I do not do a lot of this sort of thing much any more, I remember spending many an hour in Excel fighting with various bits of data that I exported to make subtle edits to thousands of rows. After a little bit of experience I began to build Visual Basic scripts, or Macros, that […]

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Fluid, the site-specific browser that I use for things like Google Reader, Brightkite, Gmail, and also named one of The Best of 2008 on this site, has been updated to version 0.9.5. Reading the changelog you can see that this is a fairly large release when you weigh it against previous versions. You can also […]

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Although I’m a fan of Subversion as my version control system of choice, I have a few friends that are gushing all over Git. In order to begin my migration to Git, I’ll be needing to install it locally on my Mac. This script, by Martin Bergek, seems to be the simplest way I’ve found […]

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Everyone and their mother has linked to this, so you’ve probably already seen the photos that Jeff Bridges took when on-set for Iron Man. But, if you haven’t, you can say you heard about it here first. As I "thumbed" through Bridges’ book I can’t help but think that more people, like Jeff Bridges, should […]

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You may have heard the news (since both Twitter and Pownce is flooded with links to Leah Culver’s blog post) that Pownce is shutting down on December 15th and that a few of the team members; namely Leah Culver and Mike Malone – are joining Six Apart. One could sit back and try to analyze […]

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Well, if you count watercolor paintings that I’ve done when I was younger then maybe the title of this post is a bit off, but I’d rather just start counting now. Oh, and I’m not counting the LOST invitations either. There isn’t much of an inspiring story behind either of these pieces. The orchids painting […]

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City Hall – Carbondale, PA Last night my friend Sameer Barkawi, mentioned here a few times, and I wanted to take our cameras for a spin around our hometown of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He recently picked up a Nikon D90 and I was using Eliza’s Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I put a few of the photos […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m all for independent developers charging for their applications. In fact, I don’t mind really good indy devs to charge a premium for their product if they’re going to do their best to support their customers and build a great product. I do mind when applications that cost money, which include a […]

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Silouette of my bud.

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I’ve been subscribed to Sarah Marchant’s blog, dreamdust, for a while. I believe Mike found her photos on Flickr, suggested her profile to me, and it went from there. That was years ago. Recently, however, Sarah has been on fire on her blog. She posts about her life, plain and simple. It isn’t that her life is […]

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Chilling in the living room.

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My wife got an itch to finally paint our apartment’s living room and hallway. On Monday and Tuesday Eliza and her mother took it upon themselves to follow-through with that and did an amazing job with our living room.  Here is a set of photos taken with Eliza’s iPhone using the Pano app. It turned […]

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Taken on I-380 towards New Jersey in Pennsylvania.

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Settin’ them up, knockin’ them down.

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Dr. Nick I presume.

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For the record I jailbroke my iPhone a few days ago full well knowing that the 2.2 OS update was imminent. I thought it gave me the perfect opportunity to play around with a jailbroken iPhone, build the Qik to Viddler bridge, and still be okay to install the latest update to the iPhone without losing […]

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LOST Season 5 is coming within a few months. The Season 4 DVD is scheduled to be released in December. All great news. Even better, is that there is a free episode of LOST, sorta, available on iTunes that is a promotional music video for the 5th season. The music video features The Fray’s new […]

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A bug that seems to continuously create art.

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Sometimes I just can’t help myself. I’m a hacker. Not the type of hacker that wants to break into a bank’s records and steal your personal information or anything – the type of hacker that just likes to make up fun solutions to interesting problems. Viddler’s current lack of any way to record video on […]

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The new version of the Google Mobile app for the iPhone has just been released with the ability to speak your search. The application also takes your currently location into consideration when doing a search. In my testing this application works very well and quickly over EDGE on an iPhone 2G. Two little niggles that […]

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Versions had gone through what has to be one of the longer beta periods in recent memory, but I think it did the application a lot of good. I now only use Versions for interacting with subversion (as I’ve mentioned). Versions has now come out of beta though and is considered stable enough for sale. […]

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First of all, it isn’t pretty. It isn’t all butterflies and bunny tails. But it has gotten a lot better. I wanted to jailbreak my iPhone because I was starting to get pretty tired of the relatively walled-garden that Apple has created inside the iPhone OS. When the App Store debuted I had wished it […]

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When I switched to this theme in April of this year I had created two header images that would display at random on each page refresh. I had aspirations "to some day find the time to have as many as ten random header images". Later that month I had 10 total header images. As of today I have created […]

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When I saw Garret Murray’s Flickr group called My Day, Yesterday it immediately struck a chord. Be sure to watch Garrett’s inaugural video that started it all. Not only did it remind me of MeToday photos and videos (which I miss doing, btw), but I simply loved the style. So I’ve procrastinated doing my own My Day, […]

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It is only mid-November but I’m confident in my choices for this years "Best of 2008 as told by Colin Devroe". This isn’t a list based on popularity, consensus, or a set of rules. They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this […]

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My brother Peter just called me. "Hey, I’ve got a hot topic for your blog." So, this post is for him. Google, and more specifically Google.org, has setup an equally neat and useful system for tracking search trends regarding influenza. Apparently search trends are enough of an indicator to track actual flu activity. In other […]

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Somewhat related to the Origamido Studio is Julien Vallée’s portfolio. Specifically a recent project called Raking Leaves in the Wind ((Direct link not possible due to the site using frames.)). Essentially it is art using paper but instead of Origamido’s approach, which is only using one sheet of paper, Julien uses scissors and other tools […]

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That Hawaiian beat just keeps on coming! While at Podcamp Hawai’i Eliza and I met a lot of interesting people from all over the globe. One man, Richard Alexander, had a pretty exciting story to tell. You see, he’s into origami. He and his partner, Michael LaFosse, own a studio for working with handmade paper […]

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Derek Steen, Viddler’s new Community Leader (djsteen), has put together a dead simple tutorial for deinterlacing videos before you upload them to video sharing sites, like Viddler.  But, before you read that, you may want to know what interlacing and deinterlacing actually is. Here is a quick excerpt from Wikipedia. If the quoted section isn’t […]

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During the Social Media Club’s workshop in Hawai’i Chris Heuer mentioned IBM’s blogging policy. You see, unless you are a start up in the tech-space, having a blog is a relatively new idea. Not only that, but allowing your employees to blog on their own, is downright scary (to some companies). Some people at IBM put […]

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