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Continue reading →: Jared in San Francisco
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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Continue reading →: Late Nite Talks
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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Continue reading →: Musings on tow.com
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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Continue reading →: Hanging out on Saturday Afternoon
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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Continue reading →: Friday Events
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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Continue reading →: Fourth of July BBQ in Pacifica
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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Continue reading →: BBQ on Canada Day
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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Continue reading →: Meet My Web Server: My Newton
Newton never dies. It just gets new batteries! After all these years, the Newton line of handheld and mobile computing products continues to amaze me. The product has been officially dead since late February, 1998, but hundreds of thousands of users are still dedicated to using and developing for the…
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Continue reading →: Dardy at Lucy's Teahouse
Update: Here’s Dardy’s commentary from our night out at Lucy’s Teahouse. I’ve known Dardy Chang since my days at Stanford, but my memories of him consisted of two facts: (1) he was very tall (for an Asian), and (2) he played Taiko. It wasn’t until I came across his web…
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Continue reading →: Rainbows and Vienna in Mountain View
I found out that Vienna Teng was playing at an open mic at the Red Rock Coffee Company in Mountain View minutes after I stepped into the house. I wasn’t aware that she was playing at an open mic at the cafe, but Eric informed me that she was. Not…
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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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