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I’ve entered the world of my newly hacked Apple TV. It’s wondrous.

Jul 30th

NetNewsWire 1.07 for iPhone is greatly improved over he intial release - virtually every gripe has...

Jul 29th

Heading out for a walk. Be back in a bit!

Jul 29th

Love having to *manually* go and re-downloaded iPhone apps that have been updated because iTunes is...

Jul 29th

Not sure that I *get* Cuil. Did a couple searches and wasn’t necessarily impressed with the...

Jul 29th

Suffering through yet another iPhone backup/sync. They never get easy, do they?

Jul 29th

Country Club Hills, Jul 28, 2008

Jul 28th

Working at South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, IL. I’ll be here for another hour…

Jul 28th

Reading the specs for the new Kodak Zi6 pocket shooter. Hopefully by 2.8 GHz processor they...

Jul 25th

Riding Disaster Transport

Jul 24th

New episode of Dinner Voyeur, a fine dining podcast, is out now. http://ping.fm/oCgxL Listen as Scot...

Jul 24th

Playing with Dropbox @ www.getdropbox.com and it looks pretty slick. All it needs now is an iPhone...

Jul 24th

Dinner Voyeur, the Chicago-based fine dining...

Jul 23rd

Orland Hills, Jul 22, 2008

Jul 22nd

Orland Hills, Jul 22, 2008

Jul 22nd

Goeselville, Jul 22, 2008

Jul 22nd

My First *Real* iPhone Blog Post

Jul 22nd

Microsoft says Windows Mobile smartphones are...

Jul 22nd

Fairmont, Jul 20, 2008

Jul 21st

Inside Crystal Cave

Jul 21st

Ooh, Crystals!

Jul 21st

Illuminating Something

Jul 21st

Large Cyrstals

Jul 21st

Crystal Close-up

Jul 21st

Biggest Cyrstal

Jul 21st

More Crystals

Jul 21st

DUCK!!

Jul 21st

Crystals, Crystals Everywhere

Jul 21st

The Closest Close-up

Jul 21st

Heading Back to the Surface

Jul 21st

Perry's Memorial

Jul 21st

Plaque

Jul 21st

Soldiers' Remains

Jul 21st

Catawba Island in the Distance

Jul 21st

Back at the Ferry

Jul 21st

Ferry Making the Trip to Put-in-Bay

Jul 21st

Catawba Island

Jul 21st

Almost There

Jul 21st

Unknown Island

Jul 21st

From the DF Archives: A Wee Bit More on AAC,...

Jul 21st

The MobileMe disaster continues: Now it's not...

Jul 21st

The internets are really sucking today.

Jul 20th

Woah. When did “Gmail 2” start working with Opera 9.5? I test the weeklies and...

Jul 20th

Loading up my Ubuntu 64-bit installation in VMware Fusion. God how I love Intel Macs.

Jul 20th

I just created my own TomTom voice. This may be a new low…

Jul 20th

L2O Restaurant Review

Jul 20th

Pwnage

Jul 20th

Restoring my latest iPhone backup on to the pwned iPhone 2.0 software. Will it work…?

Jul 20th

Building an IPSW file with Pwnage Tool right now…will I have a jailbroken iPhone 2.0 when...

Jul 20th

iTunes claims I have one application update avaialble but when I click on “1 update...

Jul 20th

Going to cook up some pasta for dinner. Yeah, I’m eating late. And I’m hungry.

Jul 20th

Woah. Just used Time Machine for a purpose for the first time ever. Accidentally replaced a file...

Jul 19th

Everyone seems to think that turn-by-turn directions on the iPhone will “kill the...

Jul 19th

The Dark Knight was…long.

Jul 19th

Are any iPhone apps using the notification service that was demonstrated at WWDC? Or is that not...

Jul 18th

Time for sleep now - must work in the morning. At least the weekend is almost here…

Jul 18th

Anyone know how to stop Mail.app from autocompleting e-mail address that I’ve used in the past...

Jul 18th

OpenOffice.org beta for OS X is getting better and better. I can’t stop using it.

Jul 18th

Couldn’t find my iPhone just now. It was in my pants. And not in a pocket. It’s best you...

Jul 18th

Patiently waiting for the native Brightkite application for the iPhone…

Jul 18th

Riding the Corkscrew

Jul 18th

Riding the Corkscrew

Jul 17th

Video taken at Cedar Point while on a roller coaster: http://ping.fm/mXyji (This was before we were...

Jul 17th

Almost done working for the day…

Jul 16th

Finally back home. What a weekend!

Jul 15th

Brief pit stop in Lansing, IL on the way back home…

Jul 15th

On the ferry to Put-in-Bay, Ohio. We’ll be back on the road to Illinois in a few hours.

Jul 14th

Taking a break then on to Maverick and Millennium Force.

Jul 13th

In line for the Magnum XL-200.

Jul 13th

In line for the Blue Streak, 44 years old this season.

Jul 13th

Standing in line for the Demon Drop.

Jul 13th

At Cedar Point!

Jul 13th

In Ohio. Going to see WALL•E at 10:15 then back to the hotel to rest up for Cedar Point tomorrow.

Jul 13th

In Lansing, IL to pick up my sister then it’s off to Sandusky, OH and Cedar Point!

Jul 12th

Replacing the “pre-release” 2.0 firmware on my iPhone 2G with the “official”...

Jul 12th

Anyone know what the heck this means? Get this every time I try to manually sync with...

Jul 12th

My favorite new feature of the iPhone 2.0 software so far: multiple delete/move in Mobile Mail.

Jul 11th

…Now it’s time to say good night Good night Sleep tight. Night all!!!

Jul 11th

Anyone notice that you can now use your iPhone while it is syncing and installing applications?...

Jul 11th

Taking the plunge and installing the iPhone 2.0 software before it’s officially official. Get...

Jul 11th

Going to fall asleep to This Week in Tech…

Jul 10th

Patiently waiting for MobileMe to roll out…

Jul 10th

Apple dominating US touch phone market

Jul 9th

Biggest problem with posting 140 characters or less via IM: Adium doesn’t have a character...

Jul 9th

Trying Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta on OS X. Everything seems to work fine except for Flickr video....

Jul 9th

Is anxiously awaiting the MobileMe rollout.

Jul 9th

Finally home from work… second 11-hour day in a row. Tired. Need food. Frozen pizza? Yessssss.

Jul 9th

I go away for a weekend and I come home after 11 hours of work to 1,967 unread newsfeed items....

Jul 8th

Feels good to be home again.

Jul 7th

Back on the deck in beautiful Leighton, IA after troubleshooting some Windows printer sharing...

Jul 5th

Enjoying cake and ice cream.

Jul 5th

Sitting on the deck in beautiful Leighton, IA.

Jul 5th

Just got done with some morning Rock Band.

Jul 5th

Out on the farm!

Jul 4th

White Sox sweep Indians. Yes!!!

Jul 3rd

New episode of Dinner Voyeur available: http://ping.fm/TrHJB Scot reviews Tommy Bahama’s...

Jul 3rd

Sweet. Using Google Talk’s new iPhone web app. www.google.com/talk

Jul 3rd

Home from work now. Gonna get comfortable, eat a little something, then head out to Walmart to pick...

Jul 3rd

I’ve been so unplugged the last few days I didn’t even know that OS X 10.5.4 came out....

Jul 2nd

Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share in...

Jul 2nd

Apple Testing iPhones with Physical...

Jul 2nd

Use the Original iPhone as a Wi-Fi iPod

Jul 2nd

Sox Win!

Jul 2nd

White Sox Come to the Field

Jul 2nd

White Sox Starting Lineup

Jul 2nd

Smoke on the Field

Jul 2nd

Almost a Home Run

Jul 2nd

Jun 29 2008 - VID00007

Jul 2nd

Jim Thome #523 Aftermath

Jul 2nd

First Pitch (And Beer Sale)

Jul 2nd

Home of the Chicago White Sox

Jul 2nd

1906, 1917, 2005

Jul 2nd

2005 World Series Champions

Jul 2nd

Exploding Scoreboard Up Close

Jul 2nd

MLB Scores

Jul 2nd

Joe Crede at Third

Jul 2nd

Warming Up

Jul 2nd

Fundamentals Deck

Jul 2nd

Joe Crede Ready for Action

Jul 2nd

From the Parking Lot

Jul 2nd

Party Time

Jul 2nd

Exit 55A

Jul 2nd

The Cell as seen from Mile Maker 52

Jul 2nd

Welcome to U.S. Cellular Field

Jul 2nd

Banner

Jul 2nd

Exploding Scoreboard

Jul 2nd

Cleveland Indians vs. Chicago White Sox

Jul 2nd

Bank of America

Jul 2nd

AT&T Announces iPhone 3G Pricing and Tips to...

Jul 2nd

US Cellular Field

Jul 1st