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Indy catch up
Catching up on Indiana Jones, in style.
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Dan Phiffer’s Web site
I am not even sure how I came across this site. A few days ago I found myself browsing Dan Phiffer’s Web site and I have to say, it is probably one of the more innovative sites I’ve seen in a while. There are some drawbacks, however: After visiting the site numerous times you kinda
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The CSS Selector proposal explained for CSS noobs
I am not well versed in CSS. I can get around. I can make a site look pretty good in Safari and horrible in Internet Explorer (look at this site in IE for a great example). But I’m a hacker at best. I fiddle with CSS until something looks right, I don’t follow conventions or
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Indiana Jones desktop and icons
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The crew over at the Iconfactory, who are the creators of Twitterrific among many other things, are doing a tribute to Indiana Jones this month. Here is a snap of my desktop, which I took using Skitch, to see the icons and one of their desktops in action: You too can sport
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An electrical storm on Saturn
Have you checked the weather today? Oh, but have you checked the weather on Saturn today? Neither did I. But it seems, according to yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, courtesy of NASA, that there is an electrical storm on Saturn that has lasted at least 3 months. Saturn. Early March, 2008. Extraterrestrial storms are not
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Tomorrow’s news
Taken somewhere around 2am while walking in downtown Pittsburgh.
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The Ta-da Lists widget is down captain Keegan!
Keegan Jones‘ (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support. It works beautifully. When I think of something while I’m on the go, I can add a ta-da list item with my iPhone painlessly. When I’m back at my
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The number one
The first floor in a parking garage.
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The missing iPhone ringtone
You know that ringtone you hear in the iPhone ads? It is the same ringtone that is not included on your iPhone! I have no idea why, either. I just downloaded it, dragged it into iTunes, synced it onto my iPhone, and tested the ringtone. It is great. It is loud. It progressively gets louder
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Table at Panera
One of the many days of working at Panera. This one Eliza, Chris, and Andrew were there.
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Sameer Barkawi reviews Iron Man
My friend Sameer Barkawi, distinguished actor, and fellow writer at TUG.n (though I’ve been absent for a while) recently jotted his thoughts down about Iron Man. Here are a few key points from the review. "Would I recommend this film? I think so. It’s not a strong recommendation, though. Consider it an appetizer for the
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Pittsburgh beer
Too many choices? I’d like to think just enough.
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MNF – Buffalo, NY
I am neither a Cowboys nor Bills fan, but I still went to a Monday Night Football game there. Must have been for booze.
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Bethlehem, PA
Taken while walking to get coffee.
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Dolores Park
San Francisco from Dolores Park in July 2007. Another beauty from the iPhone archives.
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The longest set of directions on Google Maps
The image above is, supposedly, the longest set of driving directions that you can find on Google Maps. Some guy named Alan Taylor has taken the time to figure this out, and although you could custom drag a longer set of driving directions, he’s pretty sure this is the farthest one. While other countries, and
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Photoshop my friend Andrew
Ok so, the album cover art wasn’t real, if you haven’t already figured that out. I had a lot of fun for the few minutes it took to put the cover art together and so I thought you might want to also take a crack at it. Photoshop my friend Andrew I’ve created a zip
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Nope, no marsh to be found
Yesterday I went to shoot photos just off of a highway near my house, a place that I have wanted to shoot for at least a month. Each time I drove by this spot, in the little view of the area that I had while exiting the highway, it looked like there was a marsh
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21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs
Reminders are good. Learning new things is good. So you might look at this list, of 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs, as either a list of reminders or a list of new things to learn. Either way, it is good. I think the most important ones, for me, are perspective, framing, intentional empty space,
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Please use the suggestion and money boxes
Help expand my echo, echo, echo chamber, please. I try to link to things I find interesting in hopes that you too will find them interesting. However, my view of the world is as narrow as my own two eyes – and so I’m hoping you’ll help me find even more interesting things to link
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Embracing your limitations
In the world of photography there is a mantra that you’ll sometimes here about; embracing limitations. It is where, even though you are only equipped with a camera that isn’t feature rich or technologically advanced, you embrace those limitations and still create interesting images. You come to grips with the things that your camera can
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Canon Digital Rebel XTi
Finally taking the time to go through each page in the manual. Eliza and I have had this camera since last fall and although I’ve been using it, I’m just now getting a chance to really kick the setting’s tires.
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Andrew Nelson, recording artist
My friend Andrew approached me to do something I’ve wanted to do for some time; design album cover art. Andrew’s new album, gonna scccrrrape you sucka, drops in a couple of months and so I thought I’d give you all a preview of the cover: Parental discretion is advised. Look for gonna scccrrrape you sucka
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Public night at the Astronomical Observatory
Last night Keystone College’s Thomas G. Cupillari Astronomical Observatory was open to the public, and so Eliza, Chris, Andrew, and I took the short ride out to take advantage of the exceptionally clear skies. I could not be happier with my decision to go. We had a great time learning about, and gazing at, our
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Apple’s iPhone takes Flickr top spot among camera phones!
All of the mobile photos you see here on my site are taken with an Apple iPhone and then emailed to my Web site for publishing. It appears that Flickr users are also using their iPhone’s to upload photos to the Web. As of: May 1, 2008 Somewhat recently, according to this graph (pictured), the
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The Mended Spiderweb series
I know it isn’t even 10am yet, but lets just call this the "link of the day" shall we? Nina Katchadourian decided, in 1998 no less, to repair broken spiderwebs around the home she was living in at the time. She used red sewing thread and a few dabs of glue. Here is what she
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Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Jeffery Zeldman on the trend of personal sites, or the one-stop URL for each person’s published goods online, going the way of the dinosaur and how more and more people are publishing their goods on many different services. I’d be remiss not to mention my goal of Bringing it all together and how I’m getting pretty
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Galaxies Gone Wild!
GGW! Normally that accronym would be reserved for late-night commercials about incredibly inexpensive DVD-sets with future women that will sue Joe Francis. But not this time. This time GGW refers to NASA’s celebration of the Hubble Telescope being launched 18 years ago! And so they’ve put together a site of awe-inspiring images that Hubble has
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All I know about Moscow, I learned from a book
Sadly, the title of this note, is mostly true. The World’s Cities: Moscow. To help quench my perpetual thirst for knowledge about things I know nothing about (the very definition of learning, I’d guess) I read a book (pictured) about Moscow. This book is not very long, is filled with illustrations, and was written prior
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.
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Eight new header images!
Just a quick note to say that this site now has a total of nine header images. To see them all, just refresh the page and a new, random header image should be loaded in. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep this set, but I do have some goals in mind with the random
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Understanding Depth of Field
You know when a photo gradually gets more "blurry" as the distance from the camera increases? That’s the Depth of Field. Here is a better way to describe it. "Depth of field is the range of distance around the focal plane which is acceptably sharp. The depth of field varies depending on camera type, aperture
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The Eliza drink
Since it has no name, that is what I’m going to call it. Either way, it is darned good. Simple. Refreshing. And contains vodka.
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The Ansel Adams Gallery Blog
Ansel Adams, considered one of the best American West photographers, had a studio which is still owned by his family and is named The Ansel Adams Gallery, now has a blog. Still very fresh, this blog is cataloging some of the activities of the studio, its members, and fans of Ansel Adams. I am of
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Sake!
Date taken: April 28, 2008 Dinner at Mirakuya in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Delicious.
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Newton rec
Where I sometimes shoot the rock. It doesn’t look like much, but it is always available, free, and never crowded.
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington
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Timeframe, a better calendar
Timeframe is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.", and is open-source. It is thoroughly impressive, a great implementation, and works best in Safari! Timeframe demo The demonstration (pictured) is by far the best calendar "widget" I’ve seen in a browser. One of my favorite things is the date range tools which is where Timeframe strived to