At salt creek grill. You’d never know the economy was in the tank based on how packed this place is.

getting ready for a road trip to mountain lakes to see some friends and lunch on my currently favorite pizza in NJ at Reservoir Tavern.

bummed that I’m going to have to explain the absence of snow on the ground to the inside-out-pajama people due to wake any moment now.

Earl Blumenauer, a Bicycle Evangelist With the Wind Now at His Back – Biography – NYTimes.com I wish were seeing bicycle congestion at intersections in Red Bank.

Chipotle’s Mobile Ordering App For Magic iPhone Burritos: http://tinyurl.com/9tcx5h (wish there was a chipotle’s near 07701)

[I originally gave this talk at the Red Bank, NJ borough council meeting on 1/13/09] My name is Jim Willis. I’m going to give some bio background here to provide some context to my comments. I grew up in Monmouth County, moved away after college and recently moved back after living in several other cities…

Keep your Web 2.0 community happy – .net magazine So how do you keep your community a happy place, without unleashing your own supervillains? My experience, and that of friends and colleagues, suggests that the permanent boot should be your nuclear…

Consumed – Talk Is Cheap – NYTimes.com But so far, nobody has quite reconciled the vision of a sober and repentant new shopper with the substantial government efforts to reignite consumer spending. This year’s Black Friday big-box mobs…

red bank green has coverage of the boro council talk I gave last night on open source municipal software: http://tinyurl.com/6trevt

Giants vs. Eagles: a visit to New Jersey football fandom epicenter donohue. holy sh*t. dude needs two mics something fierce.