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Continue reading →: Patrick's Birthday Party
Following Khalid’s party, Rae and I drove across the City to Frankie’s Bohemian Cafe on Divisadero to catch the tail end of Patrick’s belated birthday party. The dinner was just about ready to break up when we got there, but we at least had the chance to say hello and…
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Continue reading →: High ISO Testing
Ever since the Canon EOS-10D was released, I’ve been hearing about the wonderful high ISO performance. People have been raving on the forums that 10D images are clearer than many digital SLR’s on the market today, including the Canon EOS-1D. I never had the opportunity to test this theory until…
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Continue reading →: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon announced the new EOS-1D Mark II today, the successor to the EOS-1D. This is the camera that I’ve been waiting for since the release of the original EOS-1D at the tail end of 2001. The new 1D features a 8.2 megapixel CMOS sensor that can rip off 40 consecutive…
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Continue reading →: LinkedIn
Reid Hoffman, the Founder and CEO of LinkedIn, came to speak at our DVF seminar this afternoon. Reid was one of the first Symbolic Systems graduates at Stanford, meaning he had the pleasure of taking Philosophy 160A (and Phil 160B!). I bet he’d be shocked to know that the classroom…
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Continue reading →: Doug Hickey Seminar
“The vision or the idea sometimes is more important than the technology.” Doug Hickey, a Partner at Hummer Winblad Ventures Partners, a San Francisco-based VC firm, came to speak to the Digital Vision Fellows this afternoon at Stanford. Doug has a phenomenal resume to his credit, running or holding senior-level…
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Continue reading →: 10th Anniversary SNUG Meeting
The Stanford Newton User Group held its 10th Anniversary meeting tonight at Printer’s Inc. in Palo Alto. It’s amazing that we’ve been convening here for 10 years now! The cafe has outlived the bookstore next door as well as the cafe across the street (La Dolce Vita is becoming a…
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Continue reading →: Petrice's Birthday
Rae, Susan, and I were up in Berkeley/Oakland last night to celebrate Petrice’s birthday, which happened to coincide with Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! The Year of the Monkey began with a trip to the Old Spaghetti Factory in Jack London Square. There were three people celebrating their…
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Continue reading →: Chinese New Year at Ann's
Ann and Randy prepared a scrumptious Chinese New Year dinner on January 21st at Ann’s apartment in Sunnyvale. The week before, I went to A&J’s in Cupertino Village with Rae and her family for a pre-Chinese New Year dinner. It’s good that I’ve started exercising again, as I would be…
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Continue reading →: Vienna Teng on iTunes
Thanks to the heads-up by reader, James Matthews, I learned that Vienna Teng’s Waking Hour is now available on the iTunes Music Store! This is very cool! Her new album, Warm Strangers, is due out at the end of February. Check out the pre-order page from Amazon.
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Continue reading →: Recycling
Where do old computers go when they have outlived their usefulness? Are they relegated to our garages’ dusty corners? Are they left by the side of the road for others to pick up and scavenge? Are they shipped over to China, India, or Pakistan, where they end up polluting the…
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