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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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    RT Halloween Party

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    October 30, 2005

    It’s time for another Rotten Tomatoes Halloween Party! We’ve been going to these events for the past several years, and each subsequent time, the event is at a bigger venue with even larger crowds! Last year, Rae and I dressed up as characters from Hero. Last night, we harkened back…

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    Resuscitating the Lombard

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    October 30, 2005

    Salim borrowed my old PowerBook Lombard the other day, and when he returned it, he brought over an identical Lombard. Both laptops would not boot up, however, giving me identical error messages. Following the initial gray Apple logo, a circle with a slash appeared. I tried restarting multiple times, resetting…

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    Comment Spam

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    October 28, 2005

    I finally got around to installing SecureImage to deal with comment spam. I had been using SpamKarma for some time until it started spewing PHP warnings all over the place. We’ll see how well the new system works to prevent spam floods on the site. My old version of ImageMagick…

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  • Journal

    Tour de France 2006 Route Revealed

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    October 27, 2005

    Today, the 2006 Tour de France route has been revealed by its organizers. I am very excited about this edition, the first in seven years in which Lance Armstrong will not be participating and dominating. The 2003 Tour was the most exciting in years, primarily because Armstrong was at his…

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    Sulu is gay

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    October 27, 2005

    Read off the newswire that Sulu from Star Trek is gay. George Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years. Takei, a Japanese-American who lived in a U.S. internment camp from age 4 to 8, said he grew up feeling ashamed of his ethnicity and sexuality.…

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    Photo Contests and Underwater Photography

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    October 27, 2005

    The November 2005 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-10:30 pm. So, you want to enter a Photo Contest… Underwater Photography

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  • Journal, Technology

    Decision Time

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    October 25, 2005

    I have decided to place an order the Power Mac G5 Quad. I’m still deciding what monitor to get. Should I go all-out and purchase the gigantic 30″ Cinema Display or be conservative and get the Dell 24″ display, which is similar to the 23″ Apple Cinema Display? Alex has…

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  • Aperture, COBA, Journal, Photography, Technology

    My Photo Workflow

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    October 24, 2005

    Many people have come up to me asking about my photo workflow. I’ve given presentations on the subject at COBA meetings in the past and in informal emails, but here’s my first stab at it on the Web. With the upcoming release of Aperture and iView Media Pro 3, it’s…

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    Stupid Chargers

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    October 23, 2005

    I watched the Chargers-Eagles game on ESPN GameCast and on TV, when CBS televised the last 2 minutes of the game. Stupid Chargers! We had the game in-hand except for three critical plays during the fourth quarter: Bob Hallen’s Offensive Holding penalty at the Eagles 1-yard line on first-down. We…

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  • Aperture, Photography, Technology

    iView Media Pro 3 and Assorted Aperture Thoughts

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    October 20, 2005

    iView Media Pro 3.0 was announced today. The timing of all these photo announcements is not strange, since the Photo Expo is going on this week in New York. Nevertheless, it’s always possible that they rushed their announcement following Aperture’s debut. Aside from the press release, there’s little additional information…

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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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