Let me start with a disclaimer that I’m not endorsing the distribution of YouTube videos in other video formats or even saving them to your computer. This was simply a proof of concept of taking a video from YouTube and having the ability to watch it offline. Also, with my never-ending quest [...]

This post is LONG overdue. I’ve been playing FFmpeg for a long time now and through trial and error, along with this page, figured out how to extract a JPG frame from a video at a specific time. A reader recently posted a question asking how to get this done and I hope [...]

I have to give huge props to Nick and Amy for enduring the cold weather at 2:00am in NYC to get on The Today Show. They did a tremendous job with the Ublip poster and you can see our 3 seconds of fame by watching the video below. Great job guys!

I must not be human because I failed the CAPTCHA test three times before getting my post to go through on a highly trafficked community site. I wanted to share a couple of the CAPTCHA challenges and have you tell me whether or not I’m blind. It’s gotta be the white text on [...]

You know M$ is taking over the world when they won’t let you exit out of their apps. It’s actually a bug in Excel, but it’s always crazy (and quite humorous) when you get an error message like this.

Akismet, all I can say is thank you:

First off, it’s been way too long since my last post (nearly a month). I’ve been caught up in a fun Rails project that I’ll share more about later. In the meantime I’d like to share a funny squirrel video that happened over the weekend. We’re having some serious squirrel issues [...]

I deal with this at least twice a week at the office.  It would be a different story if people were driving Bugatti Veyrons and double-parking to protect their $1.2 million investment.  But this is either sheer laziness or lack of driving skills.  Either way, please show a little regard for others and learn how [...]

I’ve decided to post my fortunes for the world to read. Jamie and I went to Pei Wei yesterday and I always get a fortune cookie to end on a good note. I’m not superstitious, but I do feel like fortune cookies are God’s way of talking to me in a dumbed-down message. [...]

On a recent mission trip to help with Hope For Honduras a buddy of mine told me to try the papusas. When we were out in Tegucigalpa one of our hosts took us to a place that served them and I was extremely impressed. I had no clue how to spell papusa until this evening [...]