Monthly Archives: December 2007

Island Dreams

There’s a magical place for us over on the big island of Hawaii. A special place where life slows down to a human pace, where old – and oh so delightful – memories are re-awakened. Today’s new header graphic brings … Continue reading

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Big Island Hawaii Radio – KAPA

Over on the “Big Island” of Hawaii, there’s a great FM combo covering the island with “Hawaii’s Music” – with a primary transmitter over on the Hilo side at 100.3 and a secondary transmitter on the Kona side at 99.1. … Continue reading

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Loving Serendipity

Painter friend (and reformed payments geek) Donald Neff writes about how he achieved one of his 2007 New Year’s resolutions – having his paintings shown in two new galleries. He was successful – signing up the Tahoe Village Art Gallery … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas We had a wonderful early family Christmas on Sunday this year. Christmas really is for kids – and our grand-daughter again had the full focus of everyone’s attention this year. Tracy and Linda went all out on the … Continue reading

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Holiday Memories

One of my memories of the Christmas holidays growing up was a gift that we always got each year from my grandfather – shelled walnuts. His project each fall was to shell walnuts as his gift for the families of … Continue reading

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Launchbar and Google Maps

I’m a total addict of LaunchBar on my Macs (see Matt Neuberg’s review) – and this morning Lifehacker had a good tip about how to quickly get to a map in Google Maps given an address. I used their technique … Continue reading

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The End of the Short Days

Tonight at 10:08 PM Pacific marks this year’s Winter Solstice – the official end of fall and the beginning of winter out where we live. But, more importantly for us, it’s the true end of the short days. Today’s walk … Continue reading

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Computing in the Cloud

Darn, wish this workshop was a lot closer to home. Princeton in January is hazardous duty for a California boy like me.

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Stanford’s Silicon Nanowire Battery

Stanford’s Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has led the development of battery research resulting in a “silicon nanowire battery” that “produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries. A laptop … Continue reading

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What Can We Take Away to Create Something New?

There’s a great article in this week’s Economist titled “The Accidental Innovator” that’s about Evan Williams of Blogger and Twitter fame and his belief that innovations are mostly stumbled upon. In his “pursuit of accidents”: The irony of trying to … Continue reading

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