The iPod-o-Lantern! It turned out not half-bad, and I took a few photos of the situation on my front steps and posted it it to the site as desktop wallpaper for the season. Well, on Halloween 2004, in the site’s heyday, I grabbed a knife and went to work on a pumpkin in an attempt to render in candle light the “Picasso” Macintosh logo-inspired logo. (Our Editor-in-Chief Eli Hodapp posted a rather impressive TouchArcade logo jack-o-lantern, a few weeks back, that’s definitely worth a look.) I shuttered the site in late 2008 in order to entirely focus my efforts towards, which I started with Arnold Kim (of ) earlier in the year. There, I covered news related to the iPod and the portable digital music player scene at large, and also provided various product reviews along the way. I started iPodHacks shortly after the original iPod was announced (but before it was released), back in late 2001. As I sat on the floor of our den, carving this year’s pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern with my daughter, I was reminded of a bit of caving I did nearly a decade ago as a bit of a Halloween goof for readers of, the most successful tech blog I’ve run independently.