Last weekend Kel and I went out to Dish in Red Bank. We only go out to dinner (to places that don’t give you crayons when you sit down) once every few months so I like to try stuff that I can’t or haven’t made at home. Last week I tried an amazing salad that…

How to Do What You Love “How much are you supposed to like what you do? Unless you know that, you don’t know when to stop searching. And if, like most people, you underestimate it, you’ll tend to stop searching too early….

The Serious Need for Play: Scientific American Parents should let children be children—not just because it should be fun to be a child but because denying youth’s unfettered joys keeps kids from developing into inquisitive, creative…

psyched I showed some restraint at the Apple Store and didn’t buy the Mac Mini I was looking at. New ones today: http://tinyurl.com/6krpr

Donated to WNYC. Feeling less guilty now and am looking forward to the Bittman book, too: http://tinyurl.com/7dsosc

I made this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/dining/25mini.html last night for something to snack on while I made dinner. It was amazing. Highly recommended. I chilled the orange slices while I cut/pitted/ crushed the olives (which were at room temp) the temperature contrast, along with the sweet/salt contrast is awesome.

Looking for suggestions on media center setups for Man Room 2.0, details here: http://tinyurl.com/bxl6mx

Modus Operandi – It’s the little things Alex explains why I like the RSS requirement: “For example the Stimulus package requires that government agencies report how they spend the money in an Atom/RSS feed. By itself this is not a big…

Quicksilver has stopped working for me over the past few days giving me an excuse to try LaunchBar (which is up to version 5.0 now)

In Newark representing open software and neighborhood technology in NJ DoT’s discussions on car sharing programs.