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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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    Mina's Art Reception in SF

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    March 11, 2002

    In between my rush to get from San Francisco to Berkeley for my birthday dinner, I stopped by Enrico’s Sidewalk Cafe in North Beach to attend the opening of an art exhibition by Mina. North Beach presents an interesting mix of high class and seedy nightlife. Expensive restaurants stand side…

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    Birthday Weekend

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    March 9, 2002

    27 years seemed like such a big number when we were children, didn’t it? It’s still a relatively young age, but man, it’s starting to look like a big old number! Only three more years to 30, eh? I would never have believed 30 would get here soooo quickly. I’m…

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    Art of Woo

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    March 8, 2002

    The reels are rolling at the 2002 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, happening this week at the Kabuki Theatre in Japantown. Friday evening, Rae and I went to see the American premiere of Art of Woo, a film by Helen Lee starring Adam Beach and Sook-Yin Lee. The…

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    COBA Second Meeting

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    March 7, 2002

    The second meeting of the Canon Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group was held Thursday evening at the Mountain View City Hall Council Chambers conference room. At the first meeting, we had 32 people show up for the meeting. Tonight, COBA increased its membership by over 20 people…

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    Jeremy's Road Trip Party

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    March 3, 2002

    Jeremy recently announced that he was leaving his company to go off on a road trip adventure across the United States and Vietnam. Sound familiar? There must be something in the air for so many people in their mid-twenties to be thinking of switching careers or going off on some…

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    Salgado Exhibit and Petrice's Chinese New Year Party

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    March 2, 2002

    The celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has an exhibit at the UC Berkeley Art Museum entitled Migrations: Humanity in Transition. “Migrations is a visual chronicle of the global flux of populations at the turn of the millennium. For a period of seven years, across forty countries in Africa, the Americas,…

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    From Singapore to Mountain View

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    February 26, 2002

    Does anybody actually read what I write on my web site? Or, are you coming here just to look at some pretty pictures? This morning, I drove Randy to San Francisco International Airport. He’s travelling to Singapore to visit Juliana. That’s a 21 hour flight, which is ungodly long. At…

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    Stanford At Night

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    February 25, 2002

    I’ve been feeling a bit restless lately with my photography, so I decided to go to Stanford to take some long exposures photos with the EOS-1D tonight. A little over a year ago, I had taken similar shots with the EOS-D30, which resulted in some beautiful prints of Main Quad…

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    Filming with Rae and Levi

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    February 23, 2002

    Rae, Levi, and I were at De Anza College Saturday afternoon to work on a short film for Levi’s film class. Rae and I were the only actors in this short silent film that saw us sitting at a bench and munching down on Hershey chocolate bars with almonds. Since…

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    Sumayya, Rae, Sunsets and Figure Skating

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    February 22, 2002

    On Thursday, I had lunch with Sumayya, a former co-worker of mine from Palm. We had lunch at Los Charros, home of the famous and delicious wet burrito. That’s a delicacy that Dardy introduced me to. Yummy! After lunch, we took a walk over to the Mountain View City Hall,…

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Welcome to tow.com, my home on the internet since 1995. I’m an indie software artist and creator of apps such as Action Phrase, MixEffect, MsgFiler, RouteEffect, Wipe My Screen, and more. I’m also the producer and co-director of Autumn Gem. Enjoy your visit here!

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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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