Jan 31 2008
Went to Tahoe last weekend. We rented a ski house in Truckee large enough to sleep eight. We wound up with nine. It was a bit of a hassle getting up there because it was snowing like crazy on the Friday we drove up. And anyone who has made that trip down I-80 over Donner [...]
Jan 29 2008
As I do almost every weekday, I took casual carpool from Oakland to San Francisco. As always, I got picked up by some random stranger, along with another casual carpooler. The usual etiquette dictates the driver play mostly talk radio (NPR preferred) or reasonably mellow tunes. Sure, folks bend the rules sometimes. So you wind [...]
Jan 21 2008
Last week was Macworld Expo, which is always – without fail – the wildest week of the year. There was Steve Jobs’ keynote address on Tuesday. I spent pretty much that entire day chained to my computer, updating our live update article. Then stories started rolling in fast and furious throughout the day. Tuesday ended [...]
Jan 01 2008
A very merry holiday season, indeed. Had a very relaxing Christmas at home. No family obligations, so Ann and I did our own thing. We ate delicious fresh crab and shrimp on Christmas Eve, keeping with my family tradition. And we opened a few presents. Then on Christmas morning we opened the remaining gifts and [...]