Gillico

I have found a lot of resources so far, and I thought it might be helpful to collect them in one place for easy reference.

• Alameda County Library: Procedure for Starting a Business
• City of Alameda: Starting a Business
• Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency
• SCORE East Bay
• CA East Bay Small Business Development Center
• SF SBA office
• CA Business Portal: Starting a Business
• CA Lawyers for the Arts
• N. CA Graphic Artist’s Guild resources
• Business Owners’ Idea Cafe

posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006 in eponymous
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I have news! I am leaving LookSmart to make Gillico my full-time concern. Gillico will be offering a wide range of creative services, from design and engineering to photography to copywriting to web hosting and more. This is not dipping my toe into the freelance world, this is my move to create a sustainable business that will last for many years to come. My last day at LS is technically 3 February, but I have some vacation days to cash in first. And I have a lot to do once my time is my own again: I need to see a CPA, a lawyer, perhaps make a visit to the SBA, and file a DBA as well. With lots of work, and a little luck, Gillico will be opening its doors officially for business on 1 March, 2006.

posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 in eponymous
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I found the most interesting thingy at Mike Quinn Electronics, a nifty surplus electronics store the next town over from where I live. It’s an adjustable potentiometer, with a digital display on top to show the resistance. We tested it with a meter, and not only does it work fine, it is as advertised, with a linear tolerance of 0.1%. But, best of all, it’s genuine Borg technology!

posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 in eponymous
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As part of my ongoing campaign to own every single piece of Apple merchandise and ephemera, I have adopted the most ungainly of all one-piece Macintoshes, the Power Macintosh G3 All-in-One. It is in the shape of a translucent and somewhat lumpy molar, but provides the missing link from the classic Macintosh to the iMac.

posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2006 in eponymous
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Rather than try to show photos of all the dishes we made, I thought it would be interesting to show the pallette of colors of the various dishes.

posted on Friday, November 25th, 2005 in eponymous
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After a long road of deregulation leading to rapidly recombining Baby Bells, SBC has completed its merger with what was left of AT&T, and assumed the former parent’s name. And, to announce the completion, they have decided that it is time for a rebranding.

posted on Monday, November 21st, 2005 in eponymous
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I often get asked for suggestions for good information about designing websites. Here are twenty-one links that I recommend.

37 signals’ blog | ajax blog | a list apart | be a design group | best practice web design examples | boxes and arrows | css tutorial 1 | css tutorial 2 | css zen garden | designing with type | design observer | kaliber 10000 | position is everything | real world style | snook | speak up | typeophile | veer ideas | web developers’ handbook | web graphics | xplane’s blog

posted on Friday, November 11th, 2005 in eponymous
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No, not the iPod that plays video. It’s this:

Apple has finally signalled that they are serious about creating a home media center. It’s the new Apple Remote for FrontRow, that is not only included with the new iMac, but also works with the new Universal dock for iPods. Suddenly, all that media we’ve all been storing on our Macs are easily available, with butt firmly planted on couch, with the click of a button. No special OS, and it works with all the familiar i-Apps. Bravo!

posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 in eponymous
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posted on Saturday, October 8th, 2005 in eponymous
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I’ve been playing around with posterization techniques on a couple of my photos, and I am pretty pleased with the results:

posted on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 in eponymous
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