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In February Eliza and I went to dinner with some friends here in Pennsylvania.  In the foyer of the restaurant we ate at was this chef guy that I took a photo of with my iPhone. Today I noticed that he is also in Lisbon, Portugal.  Small world. Source: Lisbon: Campo Pequeno.

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This is great.  Joe D!, as he is known on Flickr, decided it’d be neat to deface, I mean – artistically improve U.S. paper currency by adding some doodles.  He managed to create an entire Flickr photo set dedicated to this hobby.  Here are a few samples: Some of my favorites (pictured) are the Spartan,

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You could just get lost on Amazon, couldn’t you?  Every single category seems to have a never ending list of subcategories, each with their own products as you drill down.  I have never "shopped" on Amazon.com.  I’ve purchased a few things on the site, usually by someone linking to a product, but I’ve never just browsed around.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] On Friday, while I was at Viddler HQ fooling around with Rob, I noticed my friend Dan Rubin twittered the following: "if I ditch cable, buy an AppleTV and only watch shows I’ve BT’d (I’ll pay for movie rentals), I’ll save myself over $600/year (ATV included)" Allow me, first, to decrypt this

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If you are a fan of American Idol, particularly its contest style format with judges, auditions, etc. then you may like Mahalo Daily‘s method of finding a new co-host. When I saw that Mahalo Daily was sharing Vlog Idol on Viddler, I actually started watch all of the episodes when they came out.  I wanted

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Rob, a Monster drink, and a laptop. The usual scene here at ViddlerHQ.

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Coming this summer:  Sprint vs. Apple.  Instinct vs. iPhone.  Who has got the guts to win? I’ve seen this reported in a few places, that Sprint is going to spend $100,000,000 on a marketing campaign aimed directly against the iPhone.  Why am I the only one that loves this? For the first time in nearly

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Raiders of the Lost Ark debuted in movie theaters in 1981, when I was only one year old.  I don’t remember the first time, nor how many times, I saw this movie – but I do know that I loved it as a child, and now I know I really enjoy it as an adult too. Sure

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Drool. To be more specific, Open Road TV visits San Francisco’s Presidio, which is now a National Park, and goes on to explain its many changes over the years.  One of the places they stop, is at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic campus. "Explore San Francisco’s fabled Presidio, now a national park, and go

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plasq continues to amaze.  Adding onto the Comic Life brand, which includes Comic Life for Mac and Windows, is Comic Life Magiq.  What is the difference?  Comic Life Magiq is a big brother to Comic Life, it has more "pro" type features like image editing, and it is Leopard-only. "With creative features rivaling ‘Pro’ applications,

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I don’t think I’m alone in this thinking either.  On Mac OS X Tiger, when you searched for something, the list that appeared is much like the list that appears now, under Leopard.  Leopard’s speed improvements for these searches, when compared to Tiger, is undeniable and welcome.  Where Spotlight in Leopard begins to break down

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Catching up on Indiana Jones, in style.

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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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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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[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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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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Taken somewhere around 2am while walking in downtown Pittsburgh.

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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 first floor in a parking garage.

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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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One of the many days of working at Panera. This one Eliza, Chris, and Andrew were there.

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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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Too many choices? I’d like to think just enough.

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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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Taken while walking to get coffee.

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San Francisco from Dolores Park in July 2007. Another beauty from the iPhone archives.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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