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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some prefer to eat three times a day.  Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner.  It seems that lately people in my country seem to skip the first meal, generally eat the second meal on-the-run or too quickly, and eat the last meal of the day far too late in the day. Then you have the health conscious individuals […]

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While on my run.  The clouds over the past few days seem to be much fluffier and far larger than I’ve seen in a long time.

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Even though I don’t like Spotlight’s window in Leopard as much as I did the one in Tiger, I still use Spotlight extensively to launch applications, find files and directories, and search through documents, email messages, instant messages, and much more. However, more and more data is being stored "in the cloud" and so Spotlight […]

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Brightkite, in their infinite generosity, sent me a few stickers that I could give away here on my site.  When I got them in the mail yesterday I immediately began to think of a fun way to give them away, and I think I’ve come up with an easy and fun way. Photo credit: Chris […]

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Wolverine himself.  I’m not a fan of the Eagles (I’m a Steelers fan), but I am a fan of Brian Dawkins.

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to […]

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Not sure exactly what caused this, but a quick snap of my wine glass with my iPhone and this is what happened.  Somehow, I found it fitting with my current state when taking the photo though.

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Taken July 18, 2008 – The windows at the Seneca Harbor Wine Center.

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A few months ago I was invited to join Brightkite.  At the time I wasn’t too keen on giving up my exact location all the time, nor did I want to switch from Twitter to Brightkite and start all over again.  For any of you reading this, the way Brightkite fits into my daily routine […]

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There are examples of well and poorly designed billboards all over highways and high-traffic roads in the United States and other countries.  However, Branislav Kropilak has a slightly different perspective on billboards that turns every-single-one into a work of art. Also worth checking out are his photo exhibitions of Garages, Landings, Trains, Factories, and Lobbies. […]

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Date taken: July 18, 2008 Lights reflecting in the harbor waters.

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Date taken: July 18, 2008 Seneca Lake Marina in Watkins Glen, New York at night.

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I have been slowly making small adjustments to this site’s theme locally on my computer for weeks.  Every now and then, as I’d find a bug or something that bugged me on the live site, I’d open Coda, make some adjustments, check them locally and save them for publishing later ((I’m a publish once and […]

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A nine year old boy in my area recently won a trip to Australia with National Geographic. "For Benjamin Wilken, it was the chance of a lifetime. He wrote a 300-word essay on how he became a young explorer, attached a photograph he took, put it in the mail and now, months later, he is […]

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EnglishRussia.com recently published a photoset of Russia from a birds-eye view. The photos are pretty stunning.  The most amazing thing to me is to see how much Moscow has changed when I compare it to the book I read about Moscow that was published in 1978.  Thirty years can make a very big difference in […]

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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For anyone who hasn’t been to Wine Library, here is a quick tour in under a minute. If you’d like to see more of Wine Library, Gary did his own tour in Episode 64.

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  Date taken: July 15, 2008 Gary Vaynerchuk at his desk in Springfield, New Jersey.

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Eliza and I, along with a few friends, are going to the midnight premier of Batman: The Dark Knight tonight.  As we’ve done in the past, we’re making our own tshirts.  This time, instead of the handwritten shirts, we’re going to do iron-ons. We’ve used iron-ons in the past, for the Star Wars prequel premiers, […]

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My friend Sameer. At the midnight premier for The Dark Knight.

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WordPress 2.6 was released only a few days ago, so it isn’t too suprising that there are some bugs.  But this bug seems like it would have been very easy to catch. From my investigation, it appears that WordPress 2.6 ignores the upload preferences that I have set.  By default WordPress likes to upload files, […]

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If you watch WLTV, you know this chalk board.

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"Tasty bits for your iPhone".  Ok, I’ll bite.  I’m linking to this site for a few reasons.  The first, is that it is a site that combines iPhone applications with sushi.  Any site that can do that, gets a link from me (so pay attention iPhone application vendors). Second, is that I wanted to say […]

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There is a lot of wine at Wine Library.

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So it has begun, the next-generation in mobile computing.  Did you miss it?  On Friday, officially, Apple released its updates for both iTunes and the iPhone making it possible for those who owned iPhones, or who purchased the brand-new iPhone 3G on Friday, to install 3rd party applications on the iPhone. The most notable take-away […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Kyle Slattery, Viddler’s Lead Social Developer, recently released a nice little PHP-snippet for Facebook application developers: "While building the Viddler Facebook application, I needed to create a pagination tool that worked just like Facebook’s. After looking at their HTML and their logic of what pages to display, I came up with one, which […]

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The iPhone’s geo-enabled camera, whether you’ve upgraded to an iPhone 3G with built-in GPS or not, now records the location ((A rough latitude and longitude.)) that the photo was taken. I have a few problems with the way this has been implemented on the iPhone and also how it works on my Macintosh.  But before […]

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This is exactly what I needed to read this week.  I’ve been struggling with my weight, again, and I’d rather it not get out of control, again, and so I’m looking for motivation.  Recently, I’ve hopped back on track ((I’ll put out an update again once we get our weight scale fixed.)) and so I’m […]

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Scott McNulty, friend and fellow-Pennsylvanian, is reporting on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that Connected Flow is going to release a free iPhone application called Exposure that allows you to browse and interact with Flickr. Connected Flow, founded by Fraser Speirs, is very well acquanted with the Flickr API. Fraser developed both the iPhoto and Aperture […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] We often think of abandoned cities in the form of "ghost towns" typically found in the western United States. Whole towns left empty after the gold rush of the mid-19th century. However, there are entire "modern" cities that have been left completely abandoned all over the World. Some photos from the cities, […]

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“I can go and make half a dozen ‘THXes.’ I’ll lose everything I put into them, guaranteed. But I can have a lot of fun doing it.” — George Lucas Ugh.  This is the same drivel that we heard from George Lucas while he was making the Star Wars prequels.  He kept saying, and I’m quoting loosely […]

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