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

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

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

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

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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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  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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  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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There is a lot of wine at Wine Library.

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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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If you watch WLTV, you know this chalk board.

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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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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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[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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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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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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“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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[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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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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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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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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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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The perfect size for a few marshmallows.

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

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

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

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

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Pookers is "working" with me today.

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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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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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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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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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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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