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Monthly Archives: May 2004
Daniel F. Zucker: Ubiquitous Web Browsing (part 1)
Thursday, May 27, 2004
(Abstract and
contact) This talk was Daniel F. Zucker’s key note at
Cool
Chips in Japan. Daniel is the Director
of Technology at ACCESS Co.
Ltd. which is headquartered in Chiba, Japan and specializes on web
browsers in mobile devices. By doing this they were greatly benefitting from the
recent surge in wireless technology. They also
have a facility in Fremont.
Off-shore outsourcing sucks!
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Why the service of a ubiquitous copying &
printing store got slower.
Don Martin
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Ah, Don Martin, my favorite comic
artist. There is now an entry even at wikipedia. I still remember the day
when after reading many Don Martin strips I started to carefully study them –
little details like ears, eyes, teeth, etc. It’s like discovering a language.
His comics are famous for his new word creations for sound effects (so-called
onomatopoetic
words [...]
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 earns Palme d’Or!!!
Monday, May 24, 2004
Moore said after the ceremony that he expected
right-wing media outlets in the United States to characterize his prize as an
award from the French, whose government opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq. He
noted that the nine-person Cannes jury that awarded prizes had only one French
member and four Americans, including jury president Quentin Tarantino and
actress Kathleen [...]
Salam Pax in the news
Monday, May 24, 2004
The last entry of dear_read is from April 10.
Today I was starting to get worried so I news.googled and found that not only is
he alive and well, he is currently on a world-wide tour peddling his book
…
San Francisco Symphony
Friday, May 7, 2004
Vance George conducts Bach Mass in B minor, with
Donna Brown, Christina Wilcox, James Taylor, Christopher Maltman, and the SFS
Chorus
Elin R¿nby Pedersen: AROMA revisited – providing activity information without attention overload and privacy violation
Thursday, May 6, 2004
She describes a particular system that translates
activity in a room in terms of number of people, movement, and amount of noise
into an abstraction consisting of a flat display of a blue sky with a few
clouds, wiggling balloons, and migrating birds.
Black Eagle Camp, Day 3
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
This morning I wake up much earlier just in time to take pictures of the sunrise. It is 6AM and are not planning to leave the camp until 9. Lot’s of time to explore! First I go up a ways towards the upper mine but find that the views do not improve. I then [...]