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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Meet My Web Server: My Newton

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    June 29, 2001

    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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    Dardy at Lucy's Teahouse

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    June 27, 2001

    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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    Rainbows and Vienna in Mountain View

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    June 25, 2001

    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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    Weekend Fun

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    June 22, 2001

    This weekend was filled with a ton of events, from going away lunches to birthday celebrations. Here’s what I did the weekend of the 23rd of June, 2001. Friday was Nancy’s last day at work at Palm; she was leaving the company to pursue other opportunities in the technology sector.…

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    Hanging out with Eric and Sophia

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    June 20, 2001

    June 20, 2001: I went out with Eric and Sophia this evening in San Mateo. I was actually able to leave work a little earlier than normal, which has been quite the rare occurrence lately. Driving up Highway 101 around 6:00 pm can be a harrowing experience if you’re easily…

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    Stanford University Graduation 2001

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    June 17, 2001

    Has it really been four years since I graduated from Stanford??? On Sunday, June 17, 2001, I attended the fourth Stanford graduation since I walked down that red carpet and said goodbye to my college years. There were only a handful of people that I knew who were graduating this…

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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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