On Monday, November 19, 2007 at SAP in Palo Alto, SDForum’s Startup SIG hosted Margarita Quihuis, Founder of Indigo Financiera. Read the rest of this entry »

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I know I’m supposed to be on the cutting edge using the latest technology, but in some ways I hold back. Read the rest of this entry »

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The first picture below was taken ten years ago on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The second was taken a few weeks ago on the North Rim. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Cynthia M. Sarraco, Don Chamberlin and Rav Ahuja

At first glance it looks the title looks like a romance novel for droids. Read the rest of this entry »

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Golden Gate Bridge West

A little mist through the sunset on a winter afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yes, I Have A Banana

I was 10,000 feet above sea level on top of a volcano in the middle of Pacific Ocean. The word came down from a friend near the peak that a climber was in trouble. Was it a fall? Broken bones? There wasn’t much I could do except radio for help, and no guarantee I could get through in time. Read the rest of this entry »

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A few years ago UPN had a series called Jake 2.0 which can occasionally be seen on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was about a computer nerd who had all sorts of top secret information jammed in his head. To me Chuck is Jake 3.0. Read the rest of this entry »

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Disney makes fun of its princess cult with lots of product placement. Read the rest of this entry »

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Buying Digital Cameras

I’ve been taking digital images with all sorts of cameras for years. People ask me what to buy. Here are my thoughts. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »

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A strong incentive to become a vegetarian is carrying a twenty-five pound turkey. Read the rest of this entry »

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On November 16, 2007 at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP in Palo Alto SDForum presented “Security and Storage: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Storage”. How do you secure data over a network when you are outsourcing or virtualizing your storage? Read the rest of this entry »

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Crater Lake

This is a panorama of Oregon’s Crater Lake looking east from the west rim. It was taken with the Canon PowerShot G1, a three megapixel camera and substantial upgrade from the first Sony Mavica. The panorama feature was built in. Yes, it really was that blue. For some reason I am reminded of Roger Dean’s artwork for the Yes Fragile album.
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Writing In Sand

I was in the lobby of a Silicon Valley company last week where they displayed a gleaming cylinder of silicon they cut into wafers for chips. It struck me that we are still making stone tools, they are just smaller. From a stone age perspective we are using lightning to write messages in the sand. Read the rest of this entry »

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There is a WGA writer’s strike in Hollywood right now which reminded that there are still people who write for television. Frankly I’ve been too busy too watch old fashioned broadcast television and had to catch up online or on Tivo. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the TechMart in Santa Clara STC Silicon Valley Chapter hosted Tim Bombosch’s presentation “Podcasts and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My! What Web 2.0 Means for Technical Communicators”. It was a watershed presentation that didn’t use a single bullet and dealt with the major challenges facing technical communicators today. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Nov. 14, 2007 at Passage To India restaurant in Mountain View the STC Silicon Valley Chapter held it’s monthly STC@Lunch. Attending were Colleen Doherty, Joanne Grey, Sage Knowles, Nathaniel Lim, Marta Rauch, and Revathi Sampath. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Tuesday November 13, 2007 at Michaels in Mountain View, SDForum held a member’s breakfast and introduced Stakeware’s CEO Natan Zaidenweber and VP of Product Marketing Jean Raymond Naveau. Their company offers sustainability on-demand. Read the rest of this entry »

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Last week I had a meeting and used my laptop to set up a teleconference. There was one teeny tiny problem. I forgot my AC adapter. Read the rest of this entry »

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Roadhouse Killings

I was sitting at a truck stop trying to eat my lunch. I was minding my own business but they would not leave me alone. They kept provoking me and I guess I just snapped. I killed both of them and went back to eating. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Wednesday November 7, 2007 SDForum’s Semantic Web SIG hosted a panel moderated by Tom Gruber and consisting SRI’s Adam Cheyer, Yahoo’s Mor Naaman, Radar Network’s Nova Spivak, PARCs’ Victoria Belotti and Kurt Partridge. Read the rest of this entry »

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