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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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Talk about a photographic trifecta.  The Astronomy Picture Of The Day, from July 5th, is a photo taken in January 2007 in Perth, Australia wherein a group of people watching the Australia Day celebratory fireworks catch a glimpse of Comet McNaught and a lightning storm. You might be wondering what the Aussies are doing on the beach […]

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There is a new 5 things group on Viddler, started by my friend Edwin, and it has turned into a small contest on Viddler – so I threw my hat in again stating a new set of 5 things.  Here is that video. If you have the time, consider throwing in your hat as well.

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REJECTED! You’ve got a love these script spoofs that have been popping up lately.  Recently we saw The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull parodied, and now we’re seeing the upcoming Batman epic flick The Dark Knight being written as if Michael Bay were set to write, produce, and direct it. There are some gems in […]

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It is already over a year late so what is another few weeks?  Ryan Leckey, reporting for WNEP-TV news in our local area, covers the story pretty well and has some interesting details. "In addition to the sewer problem, the wall surrounding the Lazy River collapsed over the winter and had to be rebuilt, Carlson […]

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The perfect size for a few marshmallows.

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Having a teleconference with ten people in Pennsylvania, New York, and Crakow, Poland.

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Mmmm. BBQ chicken pizza. Rob had a salad. Cosi is good.

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Putting the finishing touches on Viddler’s B2B site. Photo by: Rob Sandie.

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Haven’t had peach vodka before today. Pretty good!

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Simultaneously testing out cross posting to my site, Flickr, and now Brightkite (just for fun) and showing off my wine barrel trash can.

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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FriendFeed, of which I’m a member, recently launched an iPhone-friendly version of their site.  Notably, however, they’ve done it in such a way that I much prefer to some of the ways other sites have done it.  They detect the iPhone’s mobile browser and automatically format it for you, rather than requiring you to remember […]

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A new Knowledge Base article on the Apple Support Site, which was modified and/or added hot on the heels of my needing an iPhone replacement because of this very problem, addresses the unresponsive iPhone touchscreens. The simple article, which is basically a list of things you can try to see what is wrong with your […]

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Aaron Brazell, who has done just about as much development on top of WordPress as anyone I’ve ever met, likes to break down each release of WordPress just prior to its release with these lists of things you should know about it. It is obvious that Aaron knows WordPress down to its very core, including […]

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Today is a great day for Vayniacs!  Wine Library TV, one of the very few podcasts I’ve been subscribed to since nearly day-one, is featured on the front page of the iTunes Music Store! I remember when the show was featured on the Podcast area of the iTunes Music Store, which lead to a sizable […]

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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No where near a complete list of some of the most interesting facts surrounding the creation of what is now one of the most iconic film epics of all time, but there are some interesting tidbits. A few of the more notable omissions on this list, since they nearly mentioned them but somehow failed to […]

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Jot this brewery down as a "must-have in my lifetime". The Greenland Brewhouse is the first brewery in Greenland.  That alone makes it attractive enough to give their beer a taste if I should ever find myself on the World’s largest island but to make matters even more interesting they claim to be using only "melted […]

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A sports bar in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The crest-like logo is pretty cool because, if you look closely, it does a good job to represent the bar, the city it is in, and the activities that happen there. Though the Happy Hour, on a Friday night, was sorta lame. The place was pretty dead for the […]

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Since I had to have my iPhone replaced due to dead touchscreen spots, I figured I’d take the opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison of the June 2007 iPhone’s speaker volume with the June 2008 iPhone’s speaker volume. Viddler video: Demo: iPhone volume comparison A very big difference indeed!

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Date taken: June 25, 2008 Kyle, friend and fellow Viddler team member, came to work here today. He is wearing a Celtics shirt. He’s from Boston so he can get away with it, I guess.

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Every since Steve Jobs started letting Scott Forstall, and others, help him out with Keynote presentations during Macworld, WWDC, and other presentations made by Apple to the media – I have wanted Steve to remove Scott from the line up. Yes Scott’s presentation at WWDC of the underlying core of Mobile OS X with regards […]

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Being that I comment on the Macintosh now and then you might think that this link is to some screenshots of Apple’s next version of Mac OS X.  It isn’t. It is actually a bit better than that, at least for me. Steve Winter, wildlife photographer, set up some cameras to take photos of Snow […]

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We’re back to this?  Back to the diet?  Yes. We are. I know what you might be thinking, especially if you follow me on Twitter.  How can he play so much basketball and still need to get back on his diet?  It is because I like food and booze too much.  It isn’t due to […]

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My friend Anton Peck, who is an amazing artist, is offering to illustrate an avatar for you from a photo for only $65USD.  Here is more on what he is offering to do. "The Original Artwork – You’ll get a large (600 pixels square) layered photoshop document, created in a way that will allow you to […]

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Most snow globes feature a peaceful winter scene that calms the nerves and makes you think of joyous winters playing in the snow outside of a warm cabin. That isn’t the case for these snow globes. The snow globes featured in this post on Inventor Spot depict odd scenes of people hanging their close in […]

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Date taken: June 21, 2008  A small plane flying in a big sky. Destination unknown.

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One of my berries, overlooking the patch. Eliza harvesting berries. I picked strawberries for the first time on Saturday.  Eliza had always been the one to go out picking berries.  Last year we attempted to pick some blueberries but that never panned out (the place was picked clean before we ever got there).  This year […]

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Last night, while we were watching a movie, there was a constant flashing outside of our window.  The flashing kept getting more and more consistent and, seemingly, closer.  One of the strikes was close enough for the power to hiccup and so, after turning off and unplugging just about everything in the house, we managed […]

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Date taken: June 22, 2008    Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?

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Yesterday, via Hahlo on my iPhone, I saw @MarsPhoenix twitter this: "Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!" I was happy that they’ve been able to confirm what they thought all along and accomplish what the main purpose of the mission […]

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