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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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    Quad G5 Benchmarks

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    November 10, 2005

    A MacRumors.com reader in the UK received his Quad G5 and has sent in some preliminary benchmarks. An xBench 1.2 score of 151.86 and a Cinebench Rendering rating of 1016 CB sounds pretty good to me. He also performed a Photoshop Radial Blur test in 19.2 seconds. My 867MHz Quicksilver…

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    Mario Kart

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    November 7, 2005

    On Sunday afternoon, the Gang of Eleven: Randy, Rae, myself, Joon-Mo, Felix, Daniel, Osvaldo, Alicia, Anna, Cyndi, and Stacy played Mario Kart in Cupertino. No, we didn’t linked up our Ninendo boxes for a multi-player arcade-fest, we played our version of Mario Kart using three Green Machine tri-wheel bikes, plastic…

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  • Journal

    CCF Harmony and Bliss

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    November 7, 2005

    The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco held their annual Harmony and Bliss: An Evening of Chinese Foods and Western Wines with tea, of course event at the Empress of China restaurant in Chinatown. It was extra special to attend the event dressed up in our fashion best. My parents…

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    Christine and Ben Baby Shower

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    November 7, 2005

    Christine and Ben held their baby shower at their aunt’s house in San Francisco past weekend. It wasn’t that long ago that Rae and I were celebrating with them at the same house just prior to their wedding or at their engagement party at Andy and Amy’s. In that time,…

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    You're doing a hecuva job

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    November 3, 2005

    This is a not the role model for effective leadership. More analysis of Michael Brown’s abilities.

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  • Journal, Reviews

    Commando II

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    November 1, 2005

    Earlier this week, I read the script to the never-filmed sequel to Commando starring Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Written in 1989 by Steven E. de Souza with revisions by Frank Darabont, Commando II racks yet another impressive body count for the invincible Colonel John Matrix. For an Arnold film, there’s plenty…

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    Aperture on Rob Galbraith

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    October 31, 2005

    There’s an article on Rob Galbraith’s that has more information about Aperture. Some key points: Aperture’s RAW converter is based on the Mac OS X RAW converter (see iPhoto) Aperture’s Library is really a Mac OS X Package One Aperture Library at a time Aperture is designed for a single…

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  • Journal

    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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  • Journal, Technology

    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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Welcome to tow.com, my home on the internet since 1995. I’m an indie software artist and creator of apps such as Action Phrase, MixEffect, MsgFiler, RouteEffect, 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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