Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category

May 29 2009

Painting corners: How do you make decisions when your choices have unknown pros/cons?

Published by Jeff Widman under Uncategorized, Wordpress

(My secret sauce for decision-making. So simple… I must be stupid to benefit from this.)
The background:
For the past three summers, I’ve spent a week in the outdoors with my friends Ryan and Matt (one of those rare types with zero Google presence). We’ve gone backpacking, canoing, overseas, etc. These trips were great fun, rebooted my [...]

Jan 15 2009

Creating Useful Filters Rather Than Useless Speed Bumps

As long as we live in a resource-constrained world (time, money, etc), we will create filters to separate the top-notch from the tolerable, the Thinkpad’s from the Acer’s, the Nunatak’s from the Campmor’s.
Most of these filters are intuitive, unconsciously acted upon.
I remember hearing a basketball referree, a seasoned college-level veteran, recount how crowds went from [...]

May 26 2006

If a picture is worth a thousand words…

Published by Jeff Widman under Blogging, Free Advice, Wordpress

What do I want those words to say?
How do I make those words say what I want them to say? (Not worth a darn if they don’t say what I want them to say.)
Spent about a couple of hours last night thinking about the header image. This, along with my top navigation bar, are the [...]

May 23 2006

When in doubt, try it out…

Published by Jeff Widman under Blogging, Wordpress

I find myself in need of a first post, as I attempt to wade through the agonies of site design and Wordpress templates. Not to mention an offline post editor.
This post needs some bullets, which would seem to require a list of some sort:

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