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I don’t understand

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

So I see in the news that SUV sales are down 55%.

Given that people were buying SUV’s as a status symbol, wouldn’t they be an even greater status symbol now, as they say “I’m affluent enough that high gas prices don’t bother me?”

Happy Birthday Car!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

My car is one year and ten days old today, and I just rolled over to 10,000 km. That’s 6000 miles for the metric-impaired.

I think I’ll buy her a drink. She looks thirsty.

My car odomoter at 10,000 km

Imperial Ballroom Dance Photos

Sunday, February 10th, 2008



It’s been a while since I’ve posted any photos, mostly because (a) I really wanted to re-do the photo software behind my web site, but (b) I’m too lazy to do that.

Ergo, I’ve decided to just start using Flickr.

Post: Photos from Saturday’s Rhythm Lounge at the Imperial Ballroom in Redwood City.

What housing crisis?

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

SV Housing Price Graph

All you hear about in the news is “the housing crisis” and “the housing crisis is going to cause a recession.”

Can we please have a little of that here in Silicon Valley? Average house prices are only $150,000 more than they were a year ago. Crisis! Crisis!

A Rant about user IDs…

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Quick Summary: If you’re ever designing a web-based tool and you decide to use anything other than an email address as your customers’ login ID, then you deserve to be hunted down and ground up into something that will fertilize plants.

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