February 2008
25 posts
Apple: Event on March 6 About iPhone SDK,... →
Here’s hoping for OmniFocus on the iPhone within a few weeks…
Starbucks' 3-Hour Downtime →
This might be about a better cup of coffee, but there’s a lot more to it than that, and it’s pretty slick. Shutting down your operation creates buzz.
The Church Marketing Sucks weblog hits the nail on the head with this one. Travis and I discovered this closure first-hand — much to our surprise — and even spread some of the buzz to our friends. The CMS blog breaks down the...
The 30-Day Sex Challenge →
Now that’s some relevancy in the church.
Big Clusters and Deferred Repair →
Using spares allows maintenance to be deferred, and thus scheduled and completed more efficiently. So how do you figure out what you need? Richard Elling weighs in with some analysis. The engineer’s life is a life full of trade-offs.
7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable →
Some good common sense about why many of the creature comforts of modern society are doing more harm than good.
Six Principles for Making New Things →
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
Paul Graham
Lessons from 15 Compassion International Bloggers →
Using experience and technology, empower people to tell their story and give a call to action.
Nick: I just got back from Tacoma, wanted to see what you were up to.
Travis: You were in Washington?
Travis: Oh, right, you live in Washington.
My Utmost For His Highest - Taking the Initiative... →
When the Spirit of God comes to us, He does not give us glorious visions, but He tells us to do the most ordinary things imaginable. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things-things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
Better Than Free →
An excellent article that looks at eight things that have worth because they can not be mass-duplicated: Immediacy, Personalization, Interpretation, Authenticity, Accessibility, Embodiment, Patronage, Findability.
Scaling Rails →
and a good list of big sites that are running on Rails.
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Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle →
jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions →
Random cool things
New projects and bigger responsibilities
IT infrastructure work at COTN
Sweet new office
Really good beer
Plans to go snowshoeing
Not so much
Anti-Californianism — Oh, so you’re just visiting…
Community Pricing for Books →
Metaphilm - Fight Club →
Why Fight Club = Calvin and Hobbes.
Farecast Now Offers International Flight Price... →
SWEET! No Asia yet, but London…
Complete Introduction to git →
Walks through some good sample use cases without sparing technical details. I feel like I better understand git’s elegance after reading this.
Church Marketing Lessons From Haiti, Part 3 →
The Great British Venn Diagram →
Finally, I get it!
