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I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…

Given my recent spat on Tumblr about their downtime and the messaging coming from their team and investors, I thought this quote by Jason Fried of 37Signals in INC. was apropos: "Of course, all companies experience episodes like this. How they handle the situation is what counts. I’m not talking about fixing the problem—you have…

Over on The Watercolor Gallery I’ve teamed up with the great folks at Field Notes Brand notebooks to do a special giveway where you can win a mixed 3-pack. Go check it out!

I was going to wait until The Watercolor Gallery hit 150 or even 200 pieces in its archive before I gave another update but several key things are going on and I want them documented. For context see the announcement post, the 30 pieces update, the tools of The Watercolor Gallery, and the post celebrating…

Back in late August I was celebrating over 30 works of art in The Watercolor Gallery’s archive. Today I’m celebrating over 100. It is an amazing milestone for me personally as it hasn’t been easy to try to create a valuable gallery in such a short period of time. To celebrate hitting this milestone I’ve…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Ben Davis got inspired to lose weight. So he pretty much owned running for a year and dropped 120 pounds. Reminds me of my better days of owning running and dieting. Kudos Ben. I see you’re getting some attention from all of this. And you should. Hard work pays off. Enjoy it.

We live in an increasingly interesting world where creating something from nothing is getting easier and easier. Several years ago I would say that it was easier than ever to set up a new website and get going. The same is true today, of course, but I am just as astounded by this fact today…

After a little over a week of posting over on The Watercolor Gallery I thought I’d write down a short and sweet update. You know, for posterity. Lets just say I’m enjoying myself. I’ve wanted to put together a site like this for longer than I can remember. Tumblr has made this incredibly easy. So…

I’ve decided to start a new site dedicated to inspirational watercolor art. This is from the about page on The Watercolor Gallery. "I love watercolor art. For years I’ve found inspiration by looking at the works of others and trying to determine their techniques, methods and tools – all while enjoying each piece of art…

That does it. I’m creating letterhead for myself and it is going to include a Bantha.

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers. Until this latest release the Top Sites page in Safari was too slow for me to find useful. Now, however, it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Many of the third-party iPad applications I’ve seen so far have me wishing that I wasn’t so sure that I’m not getting one. Game Table for iPad is no exception. It includes Checkers, Chess and a deck of cards (and some chips) for only $.99. I love this bit. "Game Table is not…

Pack, by fellow Viddler team member and friend Andrew Smith, is a great utility to compress your CSS and JavaScript for deployment. The real meat of Pack comes from its ability to take an entire directory of scripts and compress them using a set of instructions. Nice work Andrew.

Neven Mrgan just changed my perspective on the name iPad. I don’t particularly care for it. However, Neven compares iPad to the name of some of the top gadgets currently getting press. Turns out, iPad is an excellent name now.

I have different reasons for saving favorites on each service that I use. I figured I’d take some time to explain the reasons by listing out the services on which I save favorites and why. Also of note is that these reasons happened naturally and were not the result of me trying to think of…

This is just wonderful. Marco Arment has recently released a back up application for Tumblr that is currently only available for Mac OS X. This back up application takes a fairly unique approach among blogging platforms in that it backs up your Tumblog using raw files to your hard disk. It saves HTML files directly…

In November 2008 I put forth a list of things I thought were the best Web sites, applications, and various other things that I came across in 2008. I said "They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this year." I’m doing…

As reported by Danilo Campos on Twitter "Any ziplock bag you happen to find in your kitchen will waterproof your phone while allowing the screen to respond." So I gave it a whirl and it works! Neven Mrgan, who I heard this through, brought up a few great uses for this. He said "This means…

Pie Guy is a fun game for your iPhone that is free, is installed via the Web (it is a fancy Web page), works offline, and is actually a lot of fun (works sorta like Pac-Man). Neven Mrgan, the developer of Pie Guy, built the game – not only so people can enjoy the game…

I wanted to know what type of bike I should be saving for this coming spring. I fired off an email to the editor of I Am In Like With My Bike on Tumblr and they posted it to their Tumblog (mistypings and all). Nice. Update: Now I’m finding myself wishing they answered the question.…

I’m thinking of participating in NaNoDrawMo an art initiative that takes place through the month of November. The inspiration comes from Steven Frank (whom I interviewed a few months ago) and he was inspired by NaNoWriMo the month-long annual writing initiative that happens every November. It seems like a big challenge. 50 works of art…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This is via a ton of people on Tumblr but ultimately Garrett Murray. He says it is perfect and I think it is super fantasticly perfectly awesome. So, there.

Instapaper, a read-later service by Tumblr‘s Marco Arment, has been popping up in front of me for months. I’ve seen two of my friends, Justin and Jonathan, rave about it. So I thought it was time I gave it a spin. This morning I’ve installed the bookmarklet from the site, installed the free version of…

If you follow me on Twitter, Facebook,Tumblr or my wife on Flickr than you know that we’ve picked up a new car. We decided on a 2007 Honda Civic LX. After our major Jeep FAIL last week we knew we needed something. For many months we’ve wanted to have a smaller, more economical and eco-friendly…

This is excellent. After our interview was published yesterday Steven Frank of Panic has now posted a call for help on his Tumblog. He’s asking what the community thinks Panic should do to become more transparent. "In short, what can we do to help you better?" Asking the community to help forge Panic’s new communication…

My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk‘s new book "Why Now Is A Good Time To Crush It! And Cash In On Your Passion", also called "CRUSH IT!", is set to ship on October 13th. The new Web site for the book includes a sample chapter which gives a pretty good glimpse into the style and message…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] "If it tastes good, it is probably bad for you." We’ve all heard this saying and for the most part it is true. Although I tend to like all food (my vice in life) – most of the food that you crave, that you pine for, that you’d be willing to walk…

(via fightfirewithariot) Except this is exactly what is happening. Tumblarity has increased the amount of content on Tumblr, that is indesputable, but it probably hasn’t increased the amount of unique or even good content in equal measure to the junk. I would also argue that Tumblarity doesn’t build incentive to interact with the community by…

The Google Reader team has added Tumblr to its new "Send to:" list. Nice.

Keyboard shortcuts, both for the browser itself and for Web sites that take advantage of them, can be extremely powerful. Google Reader set the precedent for keyboard shortcuts by working through a stream of information using J to advance and K to move backward through the stream. The Big Picture, Ffffound, and now Tumblr’s Dashboard…

I played around with Odosketch for a few minutes and at first glance – it is one of the better ‘in-browser’ sketching tools out there. I look forward to working with it in the future. Via David Kaneda.

I’m a huge fan of John Williams. Seriously. I have nearly every work he’s ever wrote, conducted, and recorded. When Kyle Slattery posted this video on his Tumblr I knew I had to ‘repost’ it here. By ApprenticeA on YouTube.

For those that may have missed it, or for those of you that use Tumblr on a regular basis and wish to see this site’s posts show up in your Tumblr Dashboard – You can follow me on Tumblr. I’ve made some adjustments over there recently and I like the results. As a side note:…

Until today I hadn’t heard of District 9, a movie produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first-time director Neill Blomkamp, but now I’m seeing it pop up all over the place. The movie doesn’t see wide-release until August – but I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot more about it…

This morning I saw Steven Frank’s link to a Dell 22-inch monitor that was selling for, at the time, $140. By the time I clicked on the link it was selling for $159 (still an incredible deal). Not three minutes later the site reads "Please call for latest prices."

Last night Sameer Barkawi finally published a few of the photos he shot during our Scranton Photo Walk last month. He’s got a few gems in this set. Oh, and in case you missed them, here are mine.

When I switched to this theme in April of this year I had created two header images that would display at random on each page refresh. I had aspirations "to some day find the time to have as many as ten random header images". Later that month I had 10 total header images. As of today I have created…

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…

As I work on the next version of my site’s design, which is coming along quite nicely I might add, I figured now would be a good time to take a stroll through the hallways of Colin Devroe Design, Inc. and look at some of the designs of my site that had never made it…