Jim Willis

  • just about to hand off a dev project for review. maybe next I clean my office since I just found an unidentifiable food item behind keyboard

  • The perfect editor?

    The perfect editor?

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    What a difference a font can make! I futzed around with Coda from Panic yesterday for a while on a project. It was enjoyable to use but I kept finding that I would return to TextMate to do anything heavy with my code. I realized after bouncing back and forth between them that what I really liked about Coda was the default font. It was smaller than what I was using on TextMate but still really, really readable. I little bit of poking around and I found that Coda ships with its own…

  • The Curry Chicken Pot Pie, round two

    The Curry Chicken Pot Pie, round two

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  • links for 2008-02-01

    links for 2008-02-01

  • Frozen Grand Central – Video

    Frozen Grand Central – Video

    The awesomness that is Improv Everywhere has 200+ people freeze at the same time in Grand Central Station.

  • home this AM. On the list for today: some SQL work, invoicing (yea!!) and writing Banyan marketing blurbs (boo!!)

  • artscap Interviews

    artscap Interviews

    This is cool.

    Artscap is a local arts organization in Asbury Park, NJ. I set them up with Drupal a few months ago and they just picked it up immediately and ran with it. I love the idea that local artists are interviewing other local artists.

    That artscap can publish interviews, nicely-formatted and without any sort of webmaster/gatekeeper is a good thing. I think the immediate gratification of self-publishing can be a self-feeding system that generates more ideas for interesting…

  • links for 2008-01-30

    links for 2008-01-30

    • The search for happiness is becoming more scientific. But does that make it any more accurate than it used to be? Two books explore a growth industry
    • NetHope provides forums for member agencies to document and share their field experiences regarding the effectiveness of their telecommunication technology and to suggest ways to improve future delivery of services.
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  • NetHope

    NetHope

    NetHope provides forums for member agencies to document and share their field experiences regarding the effectiveness of their telecommunication technology and to suggest ways to improve future delivery of services.

  • working out of Zebu on Broad St. for a few hours this AM while kids overrun our house.

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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