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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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    SNUG

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    May 25, 2004

    Lunatic bought a lightly used Newton the other day. Its backlight was really bright compared to our well-traveled Newtons. I wonder how many Newtons were manufactured? 40,000? 80,000? If you haven’t picked one up yet, now’s a good time. They are selling cheap on eBay! Kevin finally figured out why…

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  • Journal, Vienna Teng

    Mission Street with Eric and Vienna

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    May 24, 2004

    Despite their schedules being a click away, Eric and Vienna are hard people to keep track of. Eric recently returned from a trip to Fiji, where he continued to demonstrate his growing mastery of underwater photography. Vienna was getting ready for another mini-tour to Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and San…

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  • Journal, Rants

    Bike Thief

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    May 17, 2004

    The dry cleaning lady said to me this afternoon, “It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?” I could only nod and laugh half-heartedly. Yes, it was a lovely day, if not for some !%^$#@ bike thief who stole my rear wheel and seat this morning! I parked my bike at the…

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    Rick Smolan Seminar

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    May 13, 2004

    Chances are you haven’t heard of Rick Smolan, but you’ve probably seen his work in the bookstores or on your coffee tables. Rick is the creator of the popular Day in the Life photography series, America 24/7, From Alice To Ocean, and 24 Hours in Cyberspace. I’ve been a big…

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  • COBA, Journal, Photography

    COBA May 2004

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    May 12, 2004

    The May 2004 COBA meeting was held last night at the usual place and the usual time. The main focus of the meeting was taking a look at prints from various digital cameras. We wanted to see how much difference there was between 3, 4, 6, 8, and 11 megapixel…

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  • Journal

    Flora and Eric

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    May 8, 2004

    The wedding train continues to pick up new passengers! Last week, Rae and I attended the wedding of Eric and Flora at the Chardonnay Golf Club in Napa, California. The Rotten Tomatoes and Cal Wushu crew were all there for the festivities, including Anne Hsu, a fellow Stanford alum whom…

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  • Journal

    Genny Lim at SomARTS

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    May 7, 2004

    Last night, Rae, Susan, and I went to somArts Cultural Center to see Genny Lim and Melody Takata perform their respective pieces, Child At War and Quest. These pieces and many others are part of the larger 7th Annual United States of Asian America Festival happening this month. In a…

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  • Journal

    Trevor's Going Away Lunch

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    May 5, 2004

    After several years of living in sunny California, Trevor and his family are returning to Ottawa, Canada. I first met Trevor when I joined Palm back in 2000. We were all in the same Palm.Net group (a.k.a Content and Access). Four years later, there’s only a handful of people left…

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  • Journal, tow.com

    Server Migration

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    May 2, 2004

    This past weekend, I installed two 2U servers from King Star Computer (ask for John, he’s a great salesperson at King Star!) at my new co-location facility at United Layer. Matt and Sean were very helpful getting everyting configured and installed properly. I know a bit about Linux and server…

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    San Diego

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    April 12, 2004

    This weekend, I flew down to San Diego to check out the Tribal Digital Village project in North San Diego. Sukumar, one of the Fellows in the DVF Program, spearheaded the project when he was an executive at HP. Three years later, the Tribal Digital Village is blossoming and ready…

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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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