The Bay Area response to foreclosure
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Bay Area, Miscellaneous | No Comments »I spotted this article a little while ago, discussing how one man responded to having his house foreclosed. The front yard of Williams' home is strewn with boxes, furniture and trash cans. There's even some of the home's air conditioning duct ...
I love data – part 3
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Bay Area, Gadgets, Personal, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »I noticed tonight that the GPS error on my running watch means that when I look at the data in aggregate, it creates quite a nice heat map of my favourite runs. I might try and figure out a way to ...
American food is killing me
Sunday, October 19th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area | 1 Comment »I'm completely addicted now. In-n-out. Krispy Kreme. Sibby's Cupcakes. Fred steaks. And tonight's indulgence? Chicago style deep-dish pizza from Patxi's. We ordered a 12", which weighs nearly 2kg (it is 2" deep). It takes 30 minutes to bake (compared to the ...
Silicon Valley pictures
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area | No Comments »Some photos from around the Silicon Valley area. Apologies for the quality, but they're all from the iPhone. The Computer History Museum presents - the original Utah teapot: The Crittendon end of the Google campus - you can see NASA Ames in ...
Bubble 2.0
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Bay Area, Startups, Web products | No Comments »Annoying parodies aside, this is pretty spot-on. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I]
Bay Area housing
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Bay Area | 2 Comments »Another sterling post from Burbed.com: WOW! Everything looks so much classier when you have columns! It’s like the whitehouse - it’s classy because it has columns! Man, this totally blows the last columned house on Burbed out of the water! If you ...
When geeks bite back
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area, Rants, Tech issues | 1 Comment »Very interesting article on news.com about Sarah Lacy's interview of Mark Zuckerberg, from Facebook. I've seen some pretty atrocious interviews, keynotes, panels and presentations in my time, but this is right up there when you think of the scope. ...
Bay Area Gossip
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area | 1 Comment »Valleywag has become one of my new guilty pleasures. While I can't but help laugh at the hapless participants, I do feel twinges of sympathy for them as well. Whether it's Jimmy Wales meeting and breaking up with his girlfriend ...
Bay Area Economics
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area | No Comments »Since moving to the Bay Area I've realised there are a whole different set of different rules for pricing and economics here. Salaries, real estate, and commodities are all distinct from the rest of the US. With that ...
