Zhang Lingmei, a former wushu champion and current instructor, held a Wushu Open House this afternoon in San Francisco. A number of our friends were performing, including Jen, Felicia, Steven, and Ben. Rae and I were fortunate to snag some front-row seats; I thought they’d be all taken since it was so hard to find parking around 19th and 20th Avenues.
Well, it’s finally done! I’ve been meaning to redesign tow.com for what seems like an eternity. My old custom content management system was getting quite creaky and unwieldy. The site is now powered by WordPress, a “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” Updating the site in the past was a time-consuming process of creating several config files, uploading the images, and running some publishing scripts. With WordPress, all I have to do now is type the text and upload the pictures!
I hope that you like the new design. I was interested in keeping the site clean and uncluttered while adding a little bit of color and spice.
Frankly, I thought this day would never come: MacGyver on DVD!!! I once tried getting the series on VCD’s via eBay, but I lost out on the bid. My patience has paid off—I will soon have the entire 7-season collection in pristine-DVD quality!
It’s funny, but most people growing up today would associate Richard Dean Anderson with Colonel Jack O’Neill, the gun-toting military man from Stargate SG-1. That character is a far cry from MacGyver, a thinking man’s hero who outwitted his opponents with his mind instead of guns or burly biceps.
There were a lot less people at the 11th Anniversary Stanford Newton User Group meeting this evening. Flash, Glen, Rosie, Lewis, and Randeep were the old standbys. Thomas Tempelmann, a longtime member who relocated a few years back to Munich, Germany, also came to the meeting. Apparently, he met Flash at MacWorld earlier this month.
The Fifth Annual Edwardian Ball was held at the Cat Club in San Francisco this past Saturday. Though I had skipped out on the event in years past, I decided to go this time at the gentle urging of Rae and her friends. Before the event, we celebrated Petrice’s birthday at Picaro’s, a tapas restaurant at 16th and Valencia. Tapas seemed to be the in-thing Saturday night in the City—Dardy celebrated Peter’s birthday at Cha Cha Cha’s.
Another year, another MacWorld. Except for a couple of years (during Apple’s dark times), I have been going to MacWorld since I was in college. Back then, the Marguerite Shuttle didn’t provide service, and this meant a very long walk from El Camino and Palm Avenue to my dorm!
Since this entry is coming rather late, you all know what Apple released at this MacWorld, the Mac mini and the iPod shuffle.
Goodbye 2004. Welcome 2005.
I’ve been busy as of late on various consulting and photography projects, not to mention having a serious case of Halodiction. Because of that, I kept hearing last night things like, “You haven’t been posting lately!” and “So, what have you been up to lately???” Well, I’m back and am looking forward to more frequent updates in 2005.
Eric hosted a New Year’s party at his Oakland loft last night. He recently returned from a trip to Indonesia, where he avoided the devasting tsunami. My heart goes out to the millions of people affected by the catastrophe. Do your part to help the relief efforts.
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