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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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    Butterfly is hard

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    June 6, 2006

    I’m learning the butterfly right now. It’s a most difficult stroke to learn. My utter lack of coordination causes Rae and Randy to laugh hysterically when they see me attempt to swim across the pool. I hope that learning it will be like learning how to bike. Unfortunately, there’s no…

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  • Aperture, Journal, Photography

    iView 3.1 Incompatible with Annoture

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    June 1, 2006

    A user of Annoture has discovered an incompatibility between the recently released iView Media Pro 3.1 and Annoture 0.92. Annotations from iView to Aperture do not work. I’m investigating the problem and hope to have a fix soon. If you use iView, consider using version 3.0.2 instead of 3.1. When…

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    Websites as Graphs

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    June 1, 2006

    Through Eric through Jim. Create your own graph for a given webpage. Check out more graphs tagged with websiteasgraphs on Flickr!

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  • Journal, Technology

    Newton Einstein Night

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    May 31, 2006

    Paul Guyot demonstrated what he’s been up to with Einstein in Japan last night at the Ginza Apple Store. Runs more smoothly Fullscreen support UI improvements Universal Binary Relativity bundled Looking forward to seeing it in action on Intel Macs! You can now download the latest version of Einstein from…

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    Photographing Munich

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    May 28, 2006

    Last night, Rae and I watched Munich, Spielberg’s take on the Israeli reaction to the Munich Massacre of 1972. While reading reviews for the movie this morning, I came across an article by the still photographer for the film on DigitalJournalist. I have helped out in the past with my…

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  • Journal

    Asian Americans in Sports

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    May 25, 2006

    Nice article about Asian Americans in sports on ESPN. Gotta love the shot of Hines Ward in traditional Korean garb. I see that Timmy Chang is playing for the Rhein Fire in NFL Europe for the Eagles. I’m surprised he wasn’t drafted nor stuck with a team in the offseason…

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    All You Can Eat Update

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    May 25, 2006

    There’s an update to the post I made the other week on the all you can eat story. Turns out there was a poll on AOL about the story, and out of 73,000 responses, 76 percent were on the side of the restaurant. Bulletin board writers who sided with the…

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    Working Hard

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    May 18, 2006

    Sorry for the lack of posts lately. There’s a big milestone at the office, and everyone’s been working long hours to get the job done.

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  • COBA, Journal, Photography

    Bags and Gadgets

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    May 9, 2006

    If you’re attending the COBA meeting tomorrow, be sure to bring your camera bags, cases, and do-it-yourself gadgets. Furthermore, if you’re looking to sell some camera bags you’re no longer using, bring them too! Also remember that we’ve moved from SLAC to Cordura Hall at Stanford University. Map and Directions…

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  • Aperture, Journal, Photography

    More Aperture Dirt on Daring Fireball

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    May 7, 2006

    Jon Gruber has more information on the recent Aperture team news.

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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 MixEffect, MsgFiler, AlbumFiler, 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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