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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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    September 13, 2003

    Eric came by to visit this afternoon. He’s in town for a few weeks after returning from Mexico, where he was photographing Great White Sharks. Scary! Tomorow, Rae and I are going to go up to San Francisco to attend the T-Mobile International San Francisco cycling race, featuring, among other…

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    Digital Vision Fellowship

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    September 11, 2003

    Earlier this year, my friend Cristina told me about the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University. “The Digital Vision Program is a sabbatical program for technology professionals at Stanford University. The Program was launched on October 1, 2001, with five fellows in the inaugural class. Digital Vision fellows…

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    September 2003 COBA Meeting

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    September 10, 2003

    I didn’t think that Canon could release a Digital SLR (DSLR) that was cheaper than the EOS-10D’s. This all changed a few weeks ago when Canon announced the EOS Digital Rebel. The camera will sell for $999 for the body and lens (18-35mm f/3.5-5.6) and $899 for the body-only. Three…

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    Odessa Chen

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    August 30, 2003

    Odessa Chen performed at Eric’s in San Francisco on Saturday evening. This might be the last time that I attend a musical performance at Eric’s in the forseeable future, as he has left for his year of nomadic adventures around the world. There were a few new faces at the…

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    10-Year Newton Anniversary

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    August 26, 2003

    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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    APAture Fundraiser

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    August 22, 2003

    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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    Weekend Nouvelles

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    August 17, 2003

    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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    COBA August 2003 Meeting

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    August 13, 2003

    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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    The Encylopedia of Poo

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    August 9, 2003

    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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    Ahn in San Francisco

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    August 8, 2003

    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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