Author: sjwillis

  • The new Executive Branch website is up: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ Change is already here by way of jQuery.

  • consensus for AFC game: The Globe, 6:30. In so far: chris, george, me, kenny and a few other FF guys.

  • 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

    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)

  • Council Talk on Open Source and Open Government

    [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

    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

    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…