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Writing on my personal site feels so much different than writing on TUG.n, a site I’ve all but abandoned due to other priorities.  But every now and then I get the opportunity to put something together that I feel is best suited on that site, and so I’m happy to say that today I was

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A building in Carbondale, PA that has been in disrepair for a few years. Sad.

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And of course, a little wine.

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I figured I might as well look the part.  Have you talked like a pirate today? This post is made possible by Skitch… one of my most favorite Macintosh applications.

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This photo, by my wife Eliza, was simply too good not to post.

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"Use on mobile phones and sites you use to keep up to date and others in the loop." And I thought the llama suggestion was going to be tough to write?  What the heck does this suggestion actually mean?  It isn’t like I was able to ask who suggested it, because it was suggested anonymously.

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Today Brightkite, the location-based social network, has updated their page layout to, once again, bring search back to the top of the page.  This time, however, they’ve added two new types of search to their original places search; people and posts. I’m very pleased to see this addition to Brightkite so early-on in their development

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Just a few nights ago I was watching a History Channel show dedicated to the pursuit of Bigfoot.  Today I find something that I find completely fascinating; someone stabilized the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. Source: Stabilized bigfoot film. (animated GIF) Via: Boing Boing. Something that just has to be noted is that this is post 1138 to my blog. That

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On Sunday I asked on Twitter; "Anyone else use Gmail IMAP in Mail.app with over 25,000 items? Does Mail.app seem to crawl for you too?". The responses were a mixed bag. Some told me to ditch Mail.app, some said that they’d rather use POP3 instead of IMAP, and others with far less email messages than I

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I joined Twitter in November 2006. Since then I’ve had a number of experiences using this service. Good days and bad days. On my diet, off my diet. Work and recreation. Entertainment and information. Social and satirical. Research and development. Mobile and, well, not-so-mobile. Recently I passed the 10,000 status update mark, which at first

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My love of insects on this blog continues. But we’re going to take a break from moths today. One of my friends needed some help moving a refrigerator and while doing so we found this Cross Orbweaver spider (Araneus diadematus) hanging in a web off the front of a house.  The photos included in this post don’t

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On the very last day of the New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada this year I had decided that I wanted to produce a podcast. The idea was simple.  Interview as many NME attendees as we could, each episode being only 2 minutes in length, asking each person the same three questions.  But I

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Or, lack thereof. In May 2004 I wrote down my procedure for making sure my email correspondance made sense, didn’t have any spelling or grammar errors, and generally got my point across. In January of 2005 I quipped that sending email at 4:00am after working all day probably wasn’t the best time to write anything

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One of the things that struck me about this photograph is how you can manipulate the iPhone while you’re taking a photo. I shot this photo in landscape mode, by tilting it backwards prior to rotating it, which ended up giving me a portrait result. I think that’s kinda neat. Also, if you’ll notice the

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I suppose that parking on the grass may not be the best idea anyway.

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Owen Winkler, who leads the Habari project, makes an interesting case for how "…Habari absolutely slaughters WordPress" in the licensing department.  He sums up his thoughts this way, which I think would raise just about anyone’s eyebrows that works with WordPress. "So that’s it. Before you even get into the technical merits of the platforms,

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Lots of them.

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Built to last.

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A very good smelling spill. The iPhone oddity emerges again!

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When I left for work the morning of this photo, it had been raining as if in a hurricane. I drove to New Jersey, somehow getting ahead of the storm. Thirty minutes after arriving it began to rain a torrent. Once the storm had past I drove back to Pennsylvania and, just prior to getting

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Daddy’s New Job by Koren Shadmi I’ve been subscribed to Koren Shadmi‘s Livejournal titled Paper Feast for a long time.  This morning, while sipping my coffee and reading his latest entry called China Rocks, I did a quick search for his name on my site and was surprised that I’ve never mentioned him. I’m rectifying

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Earlier this year Cabel Sasser, co-founder and designer at the incredible software house Panic, released a "Smooth Javascript for Image Zooming For Your Web Pages". The implementation was simple enough, worked really well, and had the desired outcome – which was the ability to "zoom" into images in a smooth, very Mac-like way. John Nunemaker,

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Google’s Chrome, the new Web browser by Google, has been getting a lot of attention because of its simple approach to browsing the Web.  But there is more here than meets the eye. It is all about the approach. The new application has its flaws, for sure, but what it gets wrong it makes up

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Photo credit: Tony Green My friend-who-I-never-get-to-see Tony Green recently enjoyed a delicious cherry pie.  The title of his post is "First Cherry Pie", which I thought meant that he made it, but it seems he had help from his significant other. "I didn’t grow up eating fruit pies (homemade or otherwise) other than the occasional

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I had a hard time knocking them all down at once.

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You asked for it and so now you’re getting it. When I installed the Skribit widget on my suggestions page I didn’t realize that some of you would ask for something like radioactive llamas with super powers, but you did, and so now you have me doing Google searches for that very term. It turns

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The weather we’ve been having lately is just awesome.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m a Canon man but the reviews of the new Nikon D90 that I’ve seen so far are intriguing. Chase Jarvis, arguably one of the best modern day professional photographers, was given the opportunity to advance test the Nikon D90. In fact, his entire team was able to get their hands on

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If there is anything in the culinary world more centering than pizza I don’t know what it is. We all have our favorite toppings, styles, and even ways to eat it. Folded in half, the way all true New Yorkers do, maybe two pieces on top of each other, or even eating it backwards crust-to-tip.

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The Lackawanna River while on my walk today.

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A really great story published on the Flickr Blog the other day. As it turns out, some one lost a camera, some one found the camera, and then someone went to great lengths to return the camera.  After turning the camera into police, and they not finding the owner, they gave it to the person

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Fun piece in the New York Times on what makes the perfect chocolate chip cookie. "Like the omelet, which many believe to be the true test of a chef, the humble chocolate chip cookie is the baker’s crucible. So few ingredients, so many possibilities for disaster." If you ask me, all you need to make

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Date taken: August 17, 2008 A small cafe/restaurant just outside of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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While in Las Vegas Kyle, Rob, and I stopped at a Peter Lik photo gallery.  His gallery in Caesar’s Palace is breath taking (as I stated on Twitter but spelled breath wrong).  I didn’t know he had a gallery in the Venetian and Mandalay Bay, else I would have been sure to fit those in too.

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An inspiring story of a morning run by Dylan F. Tweney, whose training to run a full marathon and was having trouble getting passed the 14-mile mark. "Training for a marathon, it turns out, is an exercise in mind control and reality creation. […] To make it work, you have to play all kinds of games to

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Date taken: August 17, 2008 In the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Date taken: August 17, 2008 Just outside Treasure Island, at sunset.

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Photo credit: Paul Stamatiou. Holy timely post by my friend Paul Stamatiou Batman! Paul managed to get his paws on a few different laptop bags best-suited to fit his Macbook Air.  Since the Macbook Air is a 13" computer, I’m assuming this will work for my black Macbook as well. I’m in the market for

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My messed up hair amplified by my elongated head due to iPhone stretching. Oh, and wearing my now pretty old Loch Ness Imposter Threadless tee.

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Another link to Michael Mistretta’s site.  In case you missed it the other day, "Going Beyond Automattic". This time Michael chimes in on the slow, yet steady, growth of his site. When comparing steady growth over "initial launch hype and fast growth" he remarks: "But it’s definitely more valuable than quick, unloyal, unfocused traffic." Dude

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Date taken: August 17, 2008 Gondola rides in the Venetian. This is indoor.

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