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Continue reading →: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5
The highlight of the D5 Conference last week was without a doubt the joint interview of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. If you haven’t yet seen it, the video is available in audio and video podcast form on iTunes, and you can see highlights on the AllThingsD.com. The D5 site…
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Continue reading →: Photos from Star Wars Celebration IV
I didn’t have much time to catch up on photo processing following my return from the D Conference in San Diego. On Saturday, I shot Paul and Leeya’s wedding, and I’ve been getting my body back in shape for the Death Ride next month. I’ve been able to go through…
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Continue reading →: Day One at D5
Today was the first day of the D5 Conference for attendees. Industry luminaries such as Steve Ballmer, Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Jeff Hawkins, George Lucas, and many more were seen strolling around the Four Seasons Aviara today. The conference was kicked off by U.S. Senator, John McCain, who engaged in…
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Continue reading →: Craplets at D5
As a surprise for Walt, the D5 staff all wore these great Mossberg Craplets t-shirts from Mule Design. Kara posted her thoughts on the surprise, along with a video of the proceedings. I’m putting the finishing touches on some updates to the allthingsd.com site before the conference begins. I didn’t…
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Continue reading →: At D5 This Week
I’m sitting in my room at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, California. This week, I’ll be at the D5 Conference, hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.com. I’m pretty excited about the opportunity to see and potentially meet industry heavyweights, such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs,…
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Continue reading →: Bomb Scare at Star Wars Celebration IV
Marc and I went to the Star Wars Celebration IV at the Los Angeles Convention Center tonight, but we left early because of a stupid bomb scare during the Celebration Opening event at 7:00 pm. Some stupid, fat, pimply 40-year old dressed up in Star Wars regalia probably screamed out…
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Continue reading →: Stanford Imposter Caught
Randy forwarded me the story of Azia Kim, a high school graduate who was recently caught on campus months after posing as a Stanford student. Initially, Kim pretended there was a housing mixup that caused her to be without a housing assignment in the Fall. She squatted in Kimball for…
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Continue reading →: More Cycling Bombs
I’ve been down in Long Beach for the Society for Information Display (SID) conference this week. I’ve been helping out DigiDelve, a Bay Area startup with some great OLED-based technologies. In and out of Internet coverage, I haven’t been keeping up with the news lately. I just read that Riis…
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Continue reading →: Caller ID and Landis Hearing
When I was in high school, I received a series of annoying prank calls, the subject matter of which was crude and sexual in nature. Though I never found out the identity of the caller, I have a good guess who it was. If this were to ever happen today,…
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Continue reading →: Stanford Housing Draw
I read in the Stanford Daily today that five freshman girls from Donner got the top pick in the housing draw: lucky number five. They’ll be living in Bob next year. The Housing Draw was very different when I was a student. Back in the day, you wrote out your…






