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Continue reading →: 10-Year Newton Anniversary
Ten years ago this month, Apple Computer, Inc. released the highly anticipated Newton Personal Digital Assistant at MacWorld Boston. Ten years ago I was a wide-eyed freshman entering Stanford University. Much has changed in my life in the ensuing decade, but in the handheld space, sadly, not much has changed.…
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Continue reading →: APAture Fundraiser
On Friday evening, I left behind the heavy camera and instead took along Rae’s PowerShot A70 to the APAture Fundraising party at the Blind Tiger Lounge in San Francisco. The A70 has a suprising number of advanced features for an entry-level digital camera, such as aperture priority, shutter-speed priority, manual…
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Continue reading →: Weekend Nouvelles
CenterRun Datacenter Software held their company party Friday at their Redwood City offices. The company recently was acquired by Sun Microsystems, and the party was a celebration of the past three years of accomplishments. A Caribbean band was present to provide the musical tunes, and there was a full complement…
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Continue reading →: COBA August 2003 Meeting
The August 2003 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area was held today at the Orange Room at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The three presentations covered the Hasselblad H1 Medium Format camera with the Kodak Pro Digital Back 645H and software for processing and organzing one’s digital…
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Continue reading →: The Encylopedia of Poo
Pretty much everything that moves on the planet produces it, but few have the ability to talk about it in such colorful terms as the man behind Track15.com, Dardy Chang. Yes, I’m talking about poo, cacas, merde, shit, or all those words that are used to describe the fecal matter…
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Continue reading →: Ahn in San Francisco
Ahn was in the Bay Area this weekend, and I met her and her friend in the City on Friday evening. They had never driven in San Francisco before, so it took us awhile to finally see each other. We originally planned to meet at Union Square, but I ended…
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Continue reading →: Angel Island
On Sunday, I took the Blue and Gold Fleet ferry to Angel Island State Park. From 1910 to 1943, Angel Island served as the “Guardian of the Western Gate.” It handled the flow of immigrants to America’s western shores, and it also served as an ideal detention facility for Chinese…
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Continue reading →: Eric's Going Away Party
Eric’s leaving in a week to attend graduate school in Colorado. On Saturday, he and his roommates, Paula and Joey, held a going-away party for him. Paula’s leaving too to teach English in France; I’m envious of her, as I’d love to be able to live in France for an…
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Continue reading →: MLB Showdown
Here’s a comic-book recap of my time at the MLB Showdown Regional Tournament, held at Matchplay in the San Antonio Shopping Mall in Mountain View. The regionals have been happening all across America, and next week they are playing in my hometown of San Diego! I had a lot of…
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Continue reading →: San Francisco
This entry is coming a little late, but on Saturday, Rae and I travelled to the City to check out an art exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with Susan. Prior, we were wandering along Mission Street, eating lunch at the park and taking photographs of churches,…





