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Wine spill
A very good smelling spill. The iPhone oddity emerges again!
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Paper Feast by Koren Shadmi
Daddy’s New Job by Koren Shadmi I’ve been subscribed to Koren Shadmi‘s Livejournal titled Paper Feast for a long time. This morning, while sipping my coffee and reading his latest entry called China Rocks, I did a quick search for his name on my site and was surprised that I’ve never mentioned him. I’m rectifying […]
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Dipped in Chrome
Google’s Chrome, the new Web browser by Google, has been getting a lot of attention because of its simple approach to browsing the Web. But there is more here than meets the eye. It is all about the approach. The new application has its flaws, for sure, but what it gets wrong it makes up […]
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FancyZoom, rewritten using Prototype
Earlier this year Cabel Sasser, co-founder and designer at the incredible software house Panic, released a "Smooth Javascript for Image Zooming For Your Web Pages". The implementation was simple enough, worked really well, and had the desired outcome – which was the ability to "zoom" into images in a smooth, very Mac-like way. John Nunemaker, […]
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Advance testing the Nikon D90
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m a Canon man but the reviews of the new Nikon D90 that I’ve seen so far are intriguing. Chase Jarvis, arguably one of the best modern day professional photographers, was given the opportunity to advance test the Nikon D90. In fact, his entire team was able to get their hands on […]
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Bridge in the sun
The weather we’ve been having lately is just awesome.
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Getting to happy
Reed Gustow, the man that starts every morning with a little bit of peanut butter, has an excellent write up on how to set proper goals relating to your health. There are so many money-quotes in this write up that I wish I could just quote the entire thing. Here are some of the extra-specially […]
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Radioactive llamas with super powers!
You asked for it and so now you’re getting it. When I installed the Skribit widget on my suggestions page I didn’t realize that some of you would ask for something like radioactive llamas with super powers, but you did, and so now you have me doing Google searches for that very term. It turns […]
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Ten pins
I had a hard time knocking them all down at once.
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Tony Green sorta made cherry pie
Photo credit: Tony Green My friend-who-I-never-get-to-see Tony Green recently enjoyed a delicious cherry pie. The title of his post is "First Cherry Pie", which I thought meant that he made it, but it seems he had help from his significant other. "I didn’t grow up eating fruit pies (homemade or otherwise) other than the occasional […]
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A river side stroll
The Lackawanna River while on my walk today.
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New York style pizza in San Francisco, California
If there is anything in the culinary world more centering than pizza I don’t know what it is. We all have our favorite toppings, styles, and even ways to eat it. Folded in half, the way all true New Yorkers do, maybe two pieces on top of each other, or even eating it backwards crust-to-tip. […]
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Lost. Found. Returned.
A really great story published on the Flickr Blog the other day. As it turns out, some one lost a camera, some one found the camera, and then someone went to great lengths to return the camera. After turning the camera into police, and they not finding the owner, they gave it to the person […]
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Desert cloud
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A cloud above Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Fountains in the sun
Date taken: August 17, 2008 The fountains in front of Arc de Triumph at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. To the right; the Bellagio Hotel.
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Gondola rides
Date taken: August 17, 2008 Gondola rides in the Venetian. This is indoor.
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Growth. Slow and steady.
Another link to Michael Mistretta’s site. In case you missed it the other day, "Going Beyond Automattic". This time Michael chimes in on the slow, yet steady, growth of his site. When comparing steady growth over "initial launch hype and fast growth" he remarks: "But it’s definitely more valuable than quick, unloyal, unfocused traffic." Dude […]
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Jogging monster
My messed up hair amplified by my elongated head due to iPhone stretching. Oh, and wearing my now pretty old Loch Ness Imposter Threadless tee.
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Laptop bags for light computing
Photo credit: Paul Stamatiou. Holy timely post by my friend Paul Stamatiou Batman! Paul managed to get his paws on a few different laptop bags best-suited to fit his Macbook Air. Since the Macbook Air is a 13" computer, I’m assuming this will work for my black Macbook as well. I’m in the market for […]
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Las Vegas streets, at sunset
Date taken: August 17, 2008 Just outside Treasure Island, at sunset.
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Man or monster?
Date taken: August 17, 2008 In the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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One deer, one owl in flight, six or eight rabbits, and 17 miles.
An inspiring story of a morning run by Dylan F. Tweney, whose training to run a full marathon and was having trouble getting passed the 14-mile mark. "Training for a marathon, it turns out, is an exercise in mind control and reality creation. […] To make it work, you have to play all kinds of games to […]
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Something new, something fun
While in Las Vegas Kyle, Rob, and I stopped at a Peter Lik photo gallery. His gallery in Caesar’s Palace is breath taking (as I stated on Twitter but spelled breath wrong). I didn’t know he had a gallery in the Venetian and Mandalay Bay, else I would have been sure to fit those in too. […]
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Street-side cafe
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A small cafe/restaurant just outside of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The perfect chocolate chip cookie
Fun piece in the New York Times on what makes the perfect chocolate chip cookie. "Like the omelet, which many believe to be the true test of a chef, the humble chocolate chip cookie is the baker’s crucible. So few ingredients, so many possibilities for disaster." If you ask me, all you need to make […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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Caesar’s ceiling
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A statue beneath an art-filled ceiling in Caesar’s Palace.
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Caesar’s horse
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A horse in an entire scene at Caesar’s Palace.
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Flying over Las Vegas
Date taken: August 17, 2008 A 757, as the bird flies, over Las Vegas, Nevada. I took this, and a few other photos of this plane landing, from the top of the Eiffel Tower in the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. This photo gives a fairly good glimpse at how Las Vegas is generally laid […]
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Hey TechCrunch! Put Viddler on your radar. Please?
There is no way to say this without sounding like a complainer, so I’m just going to say it and, well, sound like a complainer. And maybe I am so I’ll just embrace that and move on. K? Oh, before I begin, let me just say that I’m completely open to the fact that I […]
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\”I ♥ NetNewsWire (on the iPhone)\” – Justin Blanton
Justin Blanton weighs in on the NetNewsWire iPhone application: "Since installing the app, I find myself reading news a lot more in bed, before I get up in the morning. I roll over, grab my iPhone (which is sitting on the nightstand because I used a podcast to help me fall asleep) and start rocking […]
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Reflective death
Date taken: August 23, 2008 Trees dying in a swamp.
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Sailfish, on the hunt
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Often extremely elusive even to the most skillful seamen, the sailfish seems to hunt in large packs around sardines. This photoset from National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen is stunning. Source: Sailfish – Photo Gallery.
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Bellagio balloons
Date taken: August 17th, 2008 Balloons in a foyer at the Bellagio Hotel.
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Bellagio fountains
Date taken: August 17th, 2008 Impressive. Most impressive. A display set to music.
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Caesar’s ladies
Date taken: August 17th, 2008 A few of Caesar’s ladies. Caesar’s Palace.
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Ceramic art
Date taken: August 17t, 2008 A huge ceramic vase in a hallway in the Bellagio Hotel.
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Eiffel from the Bellagio
Date taken: August 17, 2008 The Eiffel Tower replica at Paris Las Vegas from the Bellagio.
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Going beyond Automatic
Michael Mistretta, easily the youngest author whose blog I’m subscribed to, recently took a trip to Zambia. In "Going Beyond Automatic: Photography in Africa" he gives the broad strokes of what the "Automatic" setting is on your camera, and how it takes practice to master "Manual" mode. He also talks a lot about why it […]
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SOLD OUT! Daring Fireball’s RSS Feed Sponsorship
I’ve been a member of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball since, and perhaps John can correct me if I’m wrong, nearly the first day he made the membership available. I’ve been a reader for even longer. After a while (I’ll take a stab and say a year but I can’t remember) he decided to open up […]
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Viva la New Media Expo!
Some blogger I am, I didn’t even mention that I was going to go to the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. Well, I did. And it was great. And you should have been there. But now onto my point and why I used the above photo in this post. Las Vegas is like Podcasting. […]
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – A Graphic Novel
Funny how just last night, lying in bed, Eliza and I were discussing this movie. Today, after going through my feed reader ((Which I’m so far behind on it isn’t even funny.)) I see a link from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball to Kevin Cornell’s blog post about his working on a graphic novel for The […]
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Brand New: Opinions on Corporate and Brand Identity work
I’ve been trying to remember where I first heard about Brand New, a blog by Under Consideration, because I wanted to give appropriate credit. But alas, I can not. Brand New is a blog that covers the world of corporate and brand identity as it relates to work that has been recently released. This blog […]
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The new Kyle Slattery.com
My friend and Viddler team member Kyle Slattery recently relaunched his Web site. He explains his thoughts on the design and development in this post, which got me to thinking. Having your own Web site is a truly awesome thing. Especially on today’s Internet. I’ve had "my own site" for as long as I’ve ever […]
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Completely torn over mobile photos
The above photo was posted to Flickr from my iPhone a few minutes ago. I wanted to show off, in all its glory, the new desktop picture I’m using on both my Macbook and external monitor courtesy of Mark Bixby. But this brings up something that I’m completely torn over. Where should I post my mobile photos? […]
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