Posted in hardware, software on October 18th, 2006 21 Comments »
Since 2003, I’d been using a Thinkpad X31 for much of my work; it was the best laptop I’d ever owned, and was really the only one I used heavily over a long period of time. It had an irresistible combination of small size, light weight, good performance (for its time), and excellent support [...]
Posted in climbing on October 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
Having not set hand or foot on an honest-to-god rock in well over a year, I was full of uncertainty last weekend as Tony and I left San Francisco, bound for four days of climbing near Bishop.
A few flurries of snow in Tuolumne Meadows forced us to detour over Sonora Pass. Not having passed [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on October 18th, 2006 No Comments »
I spent a few hours on Sunday putting together a web site for my friend Carole Moore, a talented San Francisco painter.
This was my first time paying any attention to web design in years. All of my prior knowledge dated back to HTML 3.2, circa middle-dot-com-boom. How pleasant it was to discover that [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on October 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Among the line-up of trendy ethnic restaurants in San Francisco’s Mission district is Dosa, which has been open for about nine months.
Dosa purports to offer up South Indian food, which only vaguely resembles the North Indian fare usually served at Indian restaurants. As Silicon Valley is bursting with excellent South Indian restaurants, but San Francisco [...]