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Brantingham Lake, NY June 24, 2009

In celebration of Susan’s birthday, my first father’s day, and just to kick back for a bit, we rented a house for the week on Brantingham Lake in upstate NY. I have fond memories of being lakeside in the Adirondacks, it’s been great revisiting.

One of the beauties of working from home is that home can be anywhere. Let’s not take broadband proliferation and powerful portables for granted either ;)

Adidas’ Priorities? June 12, 2009

The Google results tell it all. Skateboarding isn’t on their radar. Who would expect it to be?

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This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be excited for Pete Eldridge. Philadelphia’s own is the latest to take advantage of Adidas’ ploy to employ the lesser known in a street cred creation marketing exercise.

Way more exciting than Eric Koston on Nike. Way better for skateboarding. Take the money!

Delicious Chrome Extension, Add Delicious Buttons to Chrome June 8, 2009

Lately I’ve been hooked on Google Chrome. Chrome’s built in inspector even fills in nicely for FF’s robust Firebug extension. But for browsing, I’ve really missed the ability to quickly add bookmarks to my Delicious account. Sure, I can add the delicious bookmarklets to Chromes bookmark bar, but then I need to leave that ugly bar across the top at all times. I’d much prefer it across the bottom, in cute icon form!

Turns out, it’s really quite simple to create an extension for Google Chrome, so I created the Delicious Chrome Extension. Once installed it will add two familiar Delicious buttons to the bottom left corner of Google Chrome:

Setup:

You must be using a recent trunk build of Chrome or the Chrome dev channel release.
Download and unzip the featured delicious-chrome-extension.zip file.
To enable the support for extensions, edit the target field of the shortcut you use to launch Google Chrome. Right-click on the Chrome shortcut, select “Properties” and append to the Target field a space followed by:
–enable-extensions –load-extension=”c:\path-to\delicious-chrome-extension”

Installation info and the permanent home for the Delicious Chrome Extension can be found on Google projects: http://code.google.com/p/delicious-chrome-extension/

PC on your TV June 3, 2009 2 comments

Perfect for your PC that’s connected to your TV.

DJ Hero June 2, 2009

At 2A, we just launched DJ Hero for Activision’s upcoming game of the same name.

Time Bandit May 22, 2009

While shooting a show about Herring fishermen in Alaska, My brother-in-law paid a visit to Time Bandit, a crabbing ship on the fantastic Discovery Show, ‘Deadliset Catch’. I’ve been watching this show lately and can attest that near misses involving poop would make for great television. Somehow he saved face and has a great story to tell.

Two nights ago, it was my turn to go out to visit Time Bandit. The weather had dropped from 60 degrees to 40 degrees with some rain. To get out to Time Bandit, we have to take an open, uncovered skiff. So that meant one thing: layers.