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Update: These photographs have been relocated to http://www.unto.net/unto/gallery/album/san-francisco/.
Went for a walk on Saturday. What amazes me is that this is physically within the confines of San Francisco. We just didn’t have things like this back in New York.

Update: These photographs have been relocated to http://www.unto.net/unto/gallery/album/san-francisco/.
Several shots from around San Francisco in September.

I’ve raved about Gmail before. About how it is hands-down the best webmail platform out there today. About the efficacy of the spam filters, about the usability of the interface, and about the power and convenience of the search features.
But what I haven’t said explicitly yet is why it is all so important.

You see, Gmail [...]

I just had this wonderful mental picture of an Army Sergeant, veins bulging out of his tree-trunk neck, standing over a prostrate, 20-year-old George W. Bush, screaming “I don’t give a shit who your daddy is, maggot! Now drop and give me 20!!”
Of course, it was the National Guard, not the Army. And they did [...]

My first job out of college was at Microsoft. To compound the inherent humor in that, I was hired as a Program Manager and assigned to the Developer Tools group. My product? Visual J++.
This is funny because I pretty much a) hadn’t used Windows before moving out there (being a Linux and Mac guy even [...]

We launched version 1.0 of our website, A9.com, tonight. I’ve been using the beta version of this site since starting work here, and have found it indispensable. Indispensable to the point that I’m frustrated when I can’t access it outside of work. Now, it is available to everyone, and I hope that other people are [...]

Think of all the institutions you depend on every day. The post office, the electric company, your internet provider, the gas station., etc. But if there is one institution that you just simply trust to hold itself tor a high standard of competence, it’s your bank. After all, you’re loaning them your money, and you’re [...]

After writing yesterday’s post on how to circumvent firewalls that block AIM, I received an email asking if I knew how to do the same thing with a Windows client. (Please review the other post to get an understanding of how this all works.)
Truthfully, I don’t use Windows very often, but figured it [...]

On occasion, you may find yourself needing to use AOL/AIM, but are stuck behind a firewall that doesn’t let you connect directly. That said, most AIM clients, such as AOL’s official client, iChat, Gaim, and others, support connecting to the AOL servers via a proxy server. However, there are a handful of cases in [...]

Having given up on actually learning how to shoot, the challenge was to use Marijke’s fixed-lens digital camera in its lowest resolution, with only tricks on the CCD to adjust exposure.