Recently readI went to Apple HQ in Cupertino today to have lunch and mooch around the company store with my old friend Jish (of “Where’s Jish?” fame). The cafeteria was amazing, with station after station of whatever sort of food you’d like (Jish and I opted for personalized pizzas baked in the wood-fired oven as we […]
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Bhaskar Roy, one of the founders of Qik, gave me a tour of their office yesterday (having driven straight there from the airport, after an early morning flight from NYC). I thought the most captivating thing on the agenda was seeing the Qik/Facebook integration that the team is working on, but no. This was a […]
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Silicon Valley Blogger Slosher 2008, sponsored by Latitude
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Many thanks to everyone who came out for the party (pictures here), and extra-large thanks to Latitude for sponsoring the fun!
I was so pleased to see everyone, and there were several big surprises for me in terms of who showed up. I was already […]
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British Bankers’ Club, that is, a really lovely pub in Menlo Park. All are welcome, drinks are free thanks to sponsorship from Latitude. Hope to see you there! (Details here.)
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BASKET CASES $10.00
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Let’s just say I’m enjoying my time in Silicon Valley.
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This post from Alec Saunders, a lovely chap I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this week, is a good one for today.
Whether you believe the Christian biblical narration or not, Easter is a holiday which reminds us to treat our neighbors well — as we would wish to be treated ourselves. It’s a […]
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As ever, great stuff from Paul Graham:
If people have to choose between something that’s cheap, heavily marketed, and appealing in the short term, and something that’s expensive, obscure, and appealing in the long term, which do you think most will choose?
It’s the same with work. The average MIT graduate wants to work at Google or […]
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Our friend Nancy Rommelmann has a beautiful, funny post about Miss Seipp, who left us one year ago today.
I called Cathy. She told me, she’d found out really as a fluke: she had asthma, and had not been able to shake a cough, and the doctor had decided to do a chest x-ray, which […]
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Cathy Seipp has been gone a year
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It’s one year ago today that Cathy Seipp died. It feels wrong ever to refer to her as “my friend” rather than “our friend,” because I cannot separate Cathy from the huge number of friends she brought me so generously. (I’m a guest in the home […]
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All the details are here. The British Bankers’ Club in Menlo Park is such a cool venue, a 30 second walk from the train station, and did a great job hosting our last gathering in 2006. Many thanks to Latitude for giving me a load of cash to put behind the bar so everyone can […]
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I have been a huge fan of this innovative doctor for many months. Dr. Parkinson uses the best web technology to save his patients massive amounts of money and hassle, while also making a good living for himself. I really wish we had one of these where I live, and I think we soon will. […]
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Tapestry of the City 2
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I’ve spent the last few weeks working my contacts to gather donations for Lighthouse Youth Services. Their big indie music and spoken word concert, Tapestry of the City 2, happens this Friday night at the 20th Century Theater in Oakley. Thanks to some of my very generous friends, […]
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Hillary Johnson, my beauty blog co-creator and the friend who’s so graciously hosting me while I’m in California, is such a good writer (as friends are always pointing out to me, as if I didn’t realize!). I’m glad she’s getting back into the blogging swing of things. She writes like she talks. For example:
Product labels […]
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Until Loic reminded me yesterday, I’d totally forgotten about cooking dinner for him, Mena Trott, and Tom Coates a few years ago at Samizdata HQ in London. Pat got me to spill all the gory details of that fateful night. As you can see, he really had to twist my arm. (I think the statute […]
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