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I have been to my fair share of conferences that give away flash drives to attendees. Sometimes they come in a bag of schwag with a bunch of other worthless things. Print magazines full of ads, stickers, and pins among them. This isn’t to say that no shwag bags aren’t full of useful things. Just […]

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Matt Brett, a designer with a style all his own, has joined forces with WooThemes, a company that specializes in developing premium themes (or, themes-that-you-have-to-pay-for) for WordPress and has released THiCK. THiCK is the very first premium WordPress theme that I’ve actually considered pulling my wallet out for. Not only is the structure of the […]

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I’ve had my ear to the ground regarding Parkour-related things since I featured a video about Parkour in January of 2007 on the Viddler blog. Mirror’s Edge Launch Trailer uploaded by Joystiq On a recent rip to New York City my friend Jonathan Christopher mentioned Mirror’s Edge, a video game where you are doing Parkour […]

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Robert Palmer, writing for TUAW, writes "Coda is $99, Versions is free (while it’s in beta), and Beanstalk starts at $15 per month (which is the plan I have). Put together, though, it’s a million-dollar solution." I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been using this solution for some time now – in fact, many of the Viddler team members have. It […]

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A panoramic view of the 5th Ave. Apple Store in New York City. The iPhone’s camera has been one of its least regarded features. The built-in camera is only 2.1 megapixels, performs poorly in low-light, and has a very limited field of view. All of that being said, you can pour through Flickr’s global tag […]

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So you use Windows. I’m ok with that I guess. Oh, you also browse the Internet with Internet Explorer? Version 6? Well, I just can’t live with that. In fact, I doubt you and I would get along at parties. But, such as it is you are here, reading something on my site, and so […]

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During our stay on Oahu for the Social Media Club Workshop, Podcamp and Wordcamp Hawai’i, and a little leisure time – Eliza and I stayed at the Wyland Waikiki hotel. This modern hotel showcases some of Wyland’s (whose name is Robert Wyland, by the way) artwork on nearly every surface available. Wall-sized paintings, sculptures, surf […]

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Is anyone else experiencing this? When I first load Google Reader, and I use Fluid to do so, it is showing me the latest post from my subscriptions (see screenshot) in the All Items list.  Even though I have it set to sort the order from oldest to newest. To correct this issue, I only […]

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Well, this sucks. I’ve only written about Michael Crichton, or his work, [a few times](http://cdevroe.com/?s=michael crichton) – but let me be the first to say that I am a huge fan of everything he had done professionally.  When Kyle linked me to this article I admit that I was immediately saddened by the news. Michael […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Finally! I’ve been looking for an iPhone application that allowed me to quickly share my contact information with other iPhone (or iPod touch) owners. What’s more, is that if I have someone else’s contact information I can share that with others too. Over the past year and a half I can not […]

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Me, speaking at Podcamp Hawai’i. Credit: Eliza Devroe I have an awful lot of writing to do. I figured one of the easiest things to start off with, and hopefully get the ball rolling with everything else that I need to write about, would be the photos, videos, tweets, and much more from both Podcamp […]

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Speaking of photographs from Hawai’i. I have been thumbing through the over 2,000 photos that Eliza and I took during our stay on the Pacific island of Oahu and found some pretty nice gems (I’ll post those soon). But, immediately after that, while going through my feeds from the last few weeks I ran across […]

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This morning in Waikiki I lead a session at Podcamp Hawaii called "Using video to build community".  Since only about 125 people were able to make it into room 304B (out of the 500 or so attendees), I thought I’d share the thoughts of the group on the Podcamp Hawaii web site, as well as […]

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Pickles helps out. Circa January 2007. Viddler’s player is, in my incredibly biased opinion, the best Flash video player available. Especially if you’re of the sort that likes to engage in conversation or put an incredible amount of metadata in your videos. Using Viddler’s API for various projects has always resulted in some sort of […]

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I have always enjoyed Michael Crichton’s writing style. He tends to write in blocks of thoughts and actions, uses new lines to emphasize something that the character feels is important, and jams just enough raw data into his books to make them real, but not enough to turn off most readers. Airframe was written very […]

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While in Salter Path, North Carolina on vacation we saw this grasshopper, which was already dead, being carried away by countless ants.  You can’t tell from this photo alone but there was a line of thousands upon thousands of ants leading from the grasshopper back to the ant hill. The speed at which the ants […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Charlie Haden is one of the most respected jazz bassists and jazz composers today. He grew up part of a musical family through the 30s, 40s, and 50s. He sang until he was 15 years old when he was struck with polio which affected his vocal chords.  This is when he picked […]

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I have a goal to get to London next year, so this list will come in handy when that happens. For that reason, and because I think everyone visiting London should take a look at this, I’m sharing it here. Simon Willison put this Google Map together and I think it is a fantastic list […]

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The other day I featured one of Shane’s claymation videos on the Viddler blog.  Then, his video ended up on the Viddler front page.  Today, Shane shows his love by doing a new animation with Wall-E spelling Viddler! I thought this was far too great not to mention it here.

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And, cubism.

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Getting some things done at Panera Bread with my homey Chris.

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After watching Heroes last night (since we went on vacation we had two episodes to catch up on) I thought about the actor who plays Sylar, Zachary Quinto, who is also going to be playing young Spock in the upcoming Star Trek film by J.J. Abrams and Co. Turns out the official site has some […]

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Even though I read State of Fear a few months ago, I thought I’d jot down my overall thoughts of the book. As you might notice, I read nearly all of Crichton’s works, so even though the subject matter for this book isn’t particularly interesting to me, I read it because Crichton wrote it. I’m […]

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Date taken: September 30, 2008 Eliza wanted to test out her new waterproof camera. Andrew and I helped her out. All photos credit: Eliza Devroe.

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There are tons of crabs on the beach here on Indian Beach in Salter Path, NC.

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Lady Chancery trolls by our "secret" cove where Andrew and I did some snorkeling. Today we had planned to head out either Sand Dollar Island or Shackleford Banks to do some snorkeling, shell finding, or seeing if we could locate some wild horses. Instead we ended up snorkeling off of Radio Island. When we arrived […]

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Weather has been good so far. Nearly empty beach. Perfect.

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Upon my return from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas I said that I regretted not mentioning that I was going to the event beforehand. So I thought I’d look at the next few months of activities and jot them down here. In October Eliza and I will be heading to Oahu, Hawaii for […]

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Eliza trapped him in the office due to bad behaviour. He made the best of it by watching birds out the window.

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Albert Yee, a friend whom I’ve never met, recently shot this photo in Philadelphia and since sharing it on Flickr it has gotten what I think is well-worthy praise. You can head over to Flickr to read the comments and see that several people have favorited the photo.  Yee doesn’t take too much credit for […]

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Wild Pig, Florida – ricksege Finally some real news! A 63-year old woman learns a lesson that many learn by feeding a stray cat; never feed a wild animal. However, Caroline Hayes didn’t feed a helpless stray cat that became a nuisance thereafter.  She fed a 176 pound wild pig. Neighbors, who have observed the pig […]

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Date taken: August 30, 2005 A winery that offers tastings, gifts, and snacks in a very large barn. I believe this was on Cayuga Lake in New York. I’ll check my records and update.

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Wow. Jay Maisel, a photographer, bought this building 42 years ago for $102,000.  It is now estimated to be worth nearly $30 million. Talk about a return on investment. Real estate experts, interviewed by NY Mag, had said they thought the building was abandoned. Far from it.  Turns out Jay, his wife, and his daughter are […]

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Date taken: June 2003 Left: American Falls. Right: Canadian Falls (Horseshoe Falls). An amazing amount of water falling over an ever-eroding cliff.

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Just about one year ago I posted a photo of this bird without too much explanation besides that I had taken the photo in the Tampa Bay in Florida in August of 2001. But there is a little more to this story. What reminded me of this story was our life poster that is hanging […]

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In March 2002 Eliza and I went for a drive to North Carolina to help my parents move into their new home there. Of course at the time, I wrote about it and shared the photos too, but I wanted to share this story about being at the top of the lighthouse. The Currituck Beach […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Remember my iPhone macro lens? If not, here is how I made it and here is a video demonstration of it in action. My solution to the iPhone’s lacking built-in lens did what I wanted it to do, but it wasn’t a very elegant solution. The team at Griffin Technology, the company that churns out […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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And of course, a little wine.

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A building in Carbondale, PA that has been in disrepair for a few years. Sad.

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Writing on my personal site feels so much different than writing on TUG.n, a site I’ve all but abandoned due to other priorities.  But every now and then I get the opportunity to put something together that I feel is best suited on that site, and so I’m happy to say that today I was […]

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I figured I might as well look the part.  Have you talked like a pirate today? This post is made possible by Skitch… one of my most favorite Macintosh applications.

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