By Jim Willis on Feb 7, 2010 in Book Review, Lifehacks | 0 Comments
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a new book with a fresh view on on the lowly checklist–its practicality and usefulness for not only routine tasks, but also for highly complex situations like building skyscapers and operating on people.
Written by Boston surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto takes us on a [...]
By Jim Willis on Dec 6, 2009 in eBooks | 0 Comments
Before departing on a recent business trip to London, I purchased an Amazon Kindle 2 (Global version) ebook reader for the trip. The trip was my shameless justification for buying. You see, I’m a hopelessly, forever-comitted reading addict. I’ve been a regular reader since my youth, and my reading habit seems to have progressed from [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 15, 2009 in Lifehacks | 0 Comments
We’re facing the first snow of the season today. According to the wizards of the weather, if you live above 1500 feet elevation, you may get anywhere from 3 to 7 inches of snow! Which got me to wondering, not for the first time, “How can I find the elevation of our home?” We moved [...]
By Jim Willis on Sep 27, 2009 in Memories, Personal | 1 Comment
Below is the text of my eulogy given yesterday at the memorial service for William Andrew (Bill) Woishnis. It was nice to meet Bill’s extended family and hear about his early years. And it was also nice to hear from Bill’s friends outside of work, and for me personally to reconnect with my former colleagues [...]
By Jim Willis on Aug 5, 2009 in Personal | 6 Comments
It is with a heavy heart that I post the obituary of my friend and former boss, Bill Woishnis. I worked for Bill from 2000 until I left Knovel Corporation at the end of 2006. Even though I had moved on to another position, Bill and I stayed in contact. A sage friend once told [...]
By Jim Willis on Jul 28, 2009 in Social Media | 0 Comments
Local Best Buy Uses Twitter for Marketing
Let me share a bit of brilliant marketing with you. The Binghamton, NY area has been without a bigbox electronics store since Circuit City went bankrupt and closed their local store earlier this year. So when it was announced that a new Best Buy was coming to town, more [...]
By Jim Willis on Jul 26, 2009 in Technology | 0 Comments
Firefox is my web browsing software of choice, and has been going on four years now. I love it’s speed and it’s extensibility. I can add all sorts of functionality to it–little “add on” programs that make life easier for a web worker like me (FireFTP, Delicious bookmarking and SeoQuake are just some of the [...]
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