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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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    Happy Endings

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    May 4, 2006

    There’s a happy ending to my photo loss story last night. I woke up to an email from the folks at PhotoRescue that contained a registered copy of the application. I ran the program again, and it successfully found and retrieved my the deleted files! In addition to the photos…

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    Photo Loss!

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    May 4, 2006

    Something extraordinary happened this evening. I apparently lost photos on my camera! I hadn’t transferred the contents of my 4GB Hitachi MicroDrive from my EOS 1D Mark II since Saturday evening. I attended Amy and Jeremy’s wedding on Saturday and Sunday and took several memorable photos. Over the past three…

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    May 2006 COBA Meeting

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    May 3, 2006

    The May 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. New Location Last month, we bid adieu to the our home for the last several years, the…

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    Search Engine Spam

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    May 1, 2006

    I was doing a Technorati search on Sharpcast, and I came across several sites that look like blogs but whose content is decidely spam-like. It’s clear from reading the entries on the site there’s no real person behind the curtain. This looks a lot like the WordPress search engine spam…

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    Pool Time!

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    April 29, 2006

    This afternoon, we gave our pool a clean bill of health with a free checkup at Leslie’s Swimming Pool Supplies. After going for a 30 minute run, Rae and I jumped into the pool for a refreshing swim before Amy and Jeremy’s wedding in Pescadero. The weather in the Bay…

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  • Aperture, Journal, Photography, Rants

    Aperture and 6600 video card

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    April 28, 2006

    I have noticed that certain operations on my Quad PowerMac with Aperture 1.1 seem slower than they did with Aperture 1.0 or 1.0.1. I think I’ve found the culprit, the Nvida GeForce 6600 video card. I’ve found several threads on Apple’s discussion forums: Thread #1 Thread #2 Thread #3 Thread…

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    Aperture and FEDM

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    April 27, 2006

    I read today on ThinkSecret that Apple has axed or transferred much of the team behind Aperture. I had heard rumors, but this is the first time I’ve seen it published on a Mac news site. I don’t see this as a problem for the future of Aperture. Software engineering…

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    Back from Ohio

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    April 24, 2006

    I’m back from Ohio, where Facing East performed at Wright State University’s Asian Culture Night. I’ll be posting photos from the event soon!

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    Roach Motel

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    April 18, 2006

    Every morning and night, I check the garage for more of my brown and black friends. By clearing out more stuff from there on Sunday, they have become easier to see on the floor. This one was walking around near the front of the garage. After giving him a nice…

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    Adobe Users Group

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    April 18, 2006

    Got this email from Ed. I attended the meeting where they demoed CS2. If you want food, get there earlier than 6:30 pm! Adobe users are hungry folk! The next users group meeting will be on Tuesday, April 18. Our guest speaker will be Julieanne Kost, from Adobe Systems. She’ll…

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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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