Being a freelance web designer and developer, I need to be able to show clients, in a simple yet informative fashion, how their project is going to play out, and what is going to be happening during any phase of the project.

If anyone out there has gotten the 1.1.4 version of the python imaging library working with freetype2 on Mac OS X, I'd really love to know how!! (PIL fonts - bitmaps converted from X Windows BDF descriptions - suck. FreeType2 allows use of anti-aliased TrueType fonts.)

Clever, and interesting. Mike Sanders has posted a webloggers' version of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's split into several different posts, so start from the list on Ton's Interdependent Thoughts.

My nephew, Andrew Scott Ivy (good scottish name!), was born last night , 3 hours after Sean and Amy went to the hostpital. 7 lbs, 8.9 oz, 20".

Tomorrow I'll explain why this is so cool:

Snatch.

Tim Bray on the beauties of binary search. Having never taken any CS courses, this was fascinating new information for me. Includes sample code. Niiiiice!

I've been following my web server logs more closely lately, and NetNewsWire now has 4 of the 5 top spots in my Browser report, losing out only to Google. My top five user agents in descending order:

1. Googlebot/2.1
2. NetNewsWire/1.0.1fc1
3. NetNewsWire/1.0.3b1
4. NetNewsWire/1.0fc1
5. NetNewsWire Lite/1.0.2

Part of an information architect's toolbox explained: Managing taxonomies strategically.

The last few nights, we've been hearing strange sounds coming from the room where we have been putting the cats overnight. Toby and Lucy are lovable, but can be demanding and downright annoying when they want food and/or attention at 4:30 am.

Interesting article from Teledynamics: A Blog Is The Answer (What Was The Question?). The article explains business weblogging from a sales point of view. [via ABC]

I know it's a quirk of heredity, but I love being on Robert's blogroll immediately following William Gibson and Dave Hyatt.

Shock and Awe?> Defense officials told Fox News that as many as 3,000 precision-guided bombs will be dropped on specific targets in Iraq during this phase of the campaign Oh my. Does it matter that they're precision guided if you're guiding enough of them them to level a city?

Chris Ruzin re-arranged his archive section partly based on my work on the new calendar on this site. Cooooool.

Ok, so going for a 5 mile trail ride at South Mountain (Desert Classic trail) seemed like a really good idea.

The raw materials for tonights culinary exploration:

Jodi posted last night about an Iranian woman we got to spend last evening with. She and her family survived the ten year war with Iraq, and had to flee their homes on the Iran/Iraq border when Saddam's troops came. It was fascinating to hear.

VidMoBlogging by any sane name is still ENG. Electronic News Gathering is a term that came in with the advent of portable video cameras, which meant a news crew could go out into the field, easily grab video and audio of a news event, and bring it back for editing, either physically, or, later on, via satellite.

Last night I added a second monitor to my TiBook - and I'm experiencing some strange crashes that seem to be iChat related.

I have a client who has recently started IM'ing, and is hooked. He wants to findd an IM app that he can use in his office for interoffice communications, but he doesn't like the ads that AIM includes.