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IBM has a cool new nanotechnology that allows tremendous amounts of data to be compressed on a disk the size of a sugar cube. It’s quite a few years out until it becomes a reality, but imagine having a cell-phone sized device that allows you to play MP3s, record videos, do all your personal computing, […]

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Last night Jen and I watched David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, the erotic thriller that’s more twisted than Bay Area traffic on a holiday weekend. I absolutely love movies like that. I had a good feeling about this one as soon as the movie started. I hadn’t seen a movie that actually makes you think like […]

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A Web site I just came across aims to archive the digital age by capturing “Web snapshots.” This is similar to what we were discussing Saturday night at Gordon’s. An important glimpse into the recent past shows what CNN’s Web site looked like on September 11. That’s something none of us will soon forget.

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Last week a Beijing newspaper picked up a story from The Onion and ran it as news. Wow, some people… Friday night Jen and I got together with Katie and Jeanine in Golden Gate Park – in lucky area 13 – for a little picnic. I drove my Scooby across the pedestrian path and onto […]

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The big news of today is the announcement of the Bush Administration’s new proposal to create a cabinet office for Homeland Security, at a cost of a mere $37 billion. It’s always beyond me how much everything costs – even what seems to be a simple government reorganization. Changes include moving the Coast Guard from […]

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This story from a recent Sunday Chronicle makes the island sound like such a paradise. Too bad there’s zero mention of the mold problem, which has been causing me breathing problems for nearly a year. Below is an email I sent to some of the Bay Area’s media, who didn’t really take an interest in […]

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