Monthly Archives: January 2004

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 … Continue reading

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Khalid’s Party in San Francisco

Khalid from my Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford held a party at his apartment in San Francisco last night. His project centers around developing technological and business solutions that integrate ICT centers in rural Bangladesh. It was fun seeing … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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!). … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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