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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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    Vienna Teng in Arlington, Virginia

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    April 8, 2003

    It’s easy to lose track of the days of the week and the time when you’re touring. I’m writing this entry on April 11, days after the events of April 8 when we arrived in Arlington, Virginia, to stay with Lorien and Jen. We were also joined by Jim, who…

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    Vienna Teng in Snowy Philly

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    April 7, 2003

    Monday morning gave us a surprise… snow! Yes, it was snowing in Philly the month of April, something which apparently does not happen all that often. It sure looked to me like it was snowing a lot, but the people in the hotel laughed at us while saying, “That’s not…

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    Princeton

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    April 6, 2003

    Sunday took us to Princeton University in New Jersey. Yes, we drove from Providence, Rhode Island, to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and back to Princeton over the course of three days. Vienna and I are becoming very familiar with the roads out here on the East Coast! When I was a junior…

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    Vienna Teng and Princeton

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    April 6, 2003

    From Pennsylvania to Providence and back to Pennsylvania, Vienna and I have been logging some major miles on the tour thus far. Today, we returned to PA, stopping this time at Mercersburg Academy. Mercerburg is a boarding school for 9-12 grade students. The location where Vienna played, a former cafeteria,…

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    Vienna Teng at AS220

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    April 4, 2003

    The Vienna Teng East Coast tour traveled from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island today. Growing up as a Californian, I always thought that driving out of state meant at least a 5 hour drive. But here on the East Coast, you can go from one state to another in fifteen minutes!…

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    Vienna Teng at The Point

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    April 3, 2003

    The Vienna Teng East Coast tour moved from New York to Pennsylvania today. In the morning, we went to XPN 88.5, where she was interviewed by Helen Leicht on the Leicht Lunch at noontime. Vienna performed The Tower and Gravity for the lunchtime audience. After that, we drove to Bryn…

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    Vienna Teng East Coast Tour

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    April 2, 2003

    Vienna Teng is on the East Coast, touring cities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Washington D.C. Georgia, and Tennessee. This evening, she was at the Cutting Room in New York City, New York. I arrived yesterday afternoon, and I stayed in Long Island with Randy’s parents.…

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    COBA

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    March 12, 2003

    We had a great meeting tonight at the March Camera Owners of the Bay Area user group meeting. Jim Rose was on hand at the beginning of the meeting to demonstrate the new Canon EOS-10D. Canon has learned from the production problems that plagued the D60. The 10D will be…

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    Vienna in Palo Alto

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    February 16, 2003

    Vienna Teng performed at Borders Books & Cafe in Downtown Palo Alto this afternoon to a packed house of family, friends, and fans. There must have been 150-200 people lining the second floor of the bookstore. Also on hand was a crew from CNN, who were filming Vienna throughout the…

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    Images of East Palo Alto

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    February 13, 2003

    In October, 2002, I was checking my mail at the Stanford Post Office when I spotted a young woman with a camera hanging from her shoulder. Never one to pass an opportunity to talk to a photographer go by, I struck up a conversation with Arin Lawrence, who told me…

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