Jim Willis

  • Wish OS X’s PHP installation had the GD library installed by default. Every few months it seems I’m recompiling PHP.

  • I want a president . . .

    I want a president . . .

    I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved. – from Caroline Kennedy’s OpEd in Today’s…

  • having people over for dinner again this evening. Thinking of making Curry Chicken Pot Pie: http://tinyurl.com/3btryc

  • links for 2008-01-26

    links for 2008-01-26

  • EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.

    EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.

    EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.

  • About the Center for Neighborhood Technology

    About the Center for Neighborhood Technology

    Since 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has worked to show urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainably.

  • links for 2008-01-24

    links for 2008-01-24

  • The Morning Playlist

    The Morning Playlist

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    Morning is the most difficult time of day for me to select what to listen to. The right playlist can set the day off on a trajectory of inspirado. But a poor choice can count off a day of ennui and lethargy.

    I need some suggestions to spice up my morning listening. I’ll usually hit play while I’m whipping up coffee and breakfast for the kids and let it roll til I get the kitchen cleaned up. Lately I’ve been enjoying Beethoven’s Piano Sonata 28 as well as some New Order and other…

  • checking out El Ten Eleven thx to @golden_meanie sounds like a lite version of Heroic Doses. Way nice.

  • working out of Zebu on Broad St. this AM. Using their only customer-accessible power outlet. Poorly thought out design.

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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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