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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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  • Journal, Vienna Teng

    Vienna Teng at Eric's

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    July 22, 2001

    I spent Saturday morning with Eric, Rita, Amabelle, Dardy, and Bill over at Koi Palace, where we gorged on dim sum and took pictures like a pack of tourists. Afterwards, I went to fix my glasses and check out DV equipment in Palo Alto before returning home. I left my…

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  • Journal

    Saturday Morning Dim Sum

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    July 21, 2001

    I went to sleep around 2:00 am on Saturday morning, after getting back late from Dardy’s housewarming party in Palo Alto. We arranged to call each other at 9:00 am to see if we’d all like to go have dim sum at Koi Palace in Daly City. As usual, I…

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    Friday Events and Dardy and Jay's Housewarming

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    July 20, 2001

    Thursday night started an eventful set of get togethers and parties that’ll end with Saturday’s Vienna Teng concert at Eric’s place in San Francisco. On Friday night, Dardy Chang held a housewarming party at Leghorn, his new residence in Palo Alto. Dardy, for those readers who don’t know, assigns a…

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    Jared in San Francisco

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    July 19, 2001

    On Thursday, July 19, 2001, I drove up to the City of San Francisco to meet up with one of my best friends from high school, the exalted Jared and his loyal subjects, David Simon and Howard Ouyang. We convened at Jared’s hotel, the San Francisco Hyatt Regency, located at…

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  • Journal

    Late Nite Talks

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    July 11, 2001

    When I was a freshman at Stanford, I lived in Donner, an all-frosh dorm in Stern Hall. Donner hadn’t been renovated as part of the Stanford’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), so it was dark and a little long in the tooth when compared to other dorms on campus like Kimball…

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    Musings on tow.com

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    July 9, 2001

    July 9, 2001 marks the one-year anniversary of relaunching of tow.com as a personal web site. This musing reflects on the days before tow.com, its five year history as my company’s web site, my decision to transform it into my personal site, and its future. I remember first seeing the…

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  • Journal

    Hanging out on Saturday Afternoon

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    July 7, 2001

    I met up with Dardy, Rita, Amabelle, Steven, Bill, and John at Lucy’s Teahouse over in Mountain View this morning at 11:30 am. We spent the next few hours just hanging out and playing games over peach tea and the pork special. Lucy’s Teahouse feels just like home, remarked John,…

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  • Journal

    Friday Events

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    July 6, 2001

    On Friday, July 6, 2001, I covered two events: a developer lunch at the Milpitas Market and a party at Michael Yeh’s house in San Francisco. Along the way, I met up with David Simon, one of my best friends from high school in San Diego. Santa Clara We had…

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  • Journal

    Fourth of July BBQ in Pacifica

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    July 4, 2001

    On the Fourth of July, 2001, I drove up with Dardy to the Pacifica State Beach, where the Sze sisters of Amabelle and Felicia were at it again in organizing a BBQ beach party. This is the second BBQ that I’ve attended that they have hosted, the first being a…

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  • Journal

    BBQ on Canada Day

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    July 1, 2001

    I was invited on Sunday, July 1, 2001, to a BBQ party by Dave Golden, a co-worker of mine at Palm, and his fiancee Mitzi. Their place was a beautiful house in Los Gatos, about 20 miles away from my place via Highway 85 and 17. Los Gatos is about…

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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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