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Archive for January, 2008

Soul Sloshing in the Bay

Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2008 @ 2:02 pm in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Travel, Videos | 11 Comments »

A frequent question Dave and I are faced with since moving to the San Francisco bay area a few months ago is, “how’s California”. I enjoy talking about myself as much as anyone, but I have trouble answering the same question regularly especially when it feels rhetorical and the simple answer, “good” rolls off […]

A Perilous Visit to Santa Cruz

Posted: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 @ 6:25 pm in News, Photography, Travel, Writing | 2 Comments »

Since Dave had a long weekend and we didn’t plan far enough in advance to take a flight anywhere, we decided to go to Santa Cruz last week, Martin Luther King Jr Day, to commemorate the civil rights movement properly. We celebrated our right as an inter-racial couple to drive through the mountains to […]

Facebook Swings and Misses with Beacon

Posted: Friday, January 25th, 2008 @ 2:41 am in Internet Privacy, News, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 2 Comments »

After reading the TechCrunch article about Mark Zuckerberg’s 60 Minutes interview in which he said “Beacon makes Facebook less commercial”, I wondered “what is this Beacon and why haven’t I heard of it before?”

I did some checking and decided that while not keeping up with my RSS reader will most definitely keep me in the […]

Will Yahoo Lay Off My Husband?

Posted: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 @ 4:23 pm in Gossip, News, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 2 Comments »

Rumors that Yahoo is gearing up to lay off employees that will number in the thousands have been circulating lately. Believe me, we’ve heard about it. Not only from friends and our RSS feeds, but also from Dave’s mom.

I even heard that an Indian newspaper reported there would be 14,000 Yahoos left without […]

Live Vicariously Through a Silicon Valley Wife

Posted: Friday, January 18th, 2008 @ 2:23 am in Gossip, News, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 2 Comments »

You may know about the MacWorld keynote, the address Steve Jobs gives about upcoming Apple releases and innovations. You may even know about the blame he placed on Flickr this year when his screen blacked out while demoing a new feature on Apple TV, but do you know all the gossip that ensued?

Chicken Curry

Posted: Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 @ 5:16 pm in Cooking, Food, Recipes | 2 Comments »

As an honorary Indian by marriage and daughter-in-law of someone who makes a mean chicken curry, I have long felt it is a skill I should have. I quickly realized that being taught by someone who has made it thousands of times over the years is not an easy feat. The instructions tend […]

Awesome Shots with a Point and Shoot

Posted: Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 @ 9:09 pm in Photography, Travel | 2 Comments »

Largely due to the large amount of traveling Dave and I were fortunate to do last year, I’ve rediscovered my love of photography. So much so that I’ve outgrown our little Pentax Optio S4 point and shoot that we keep in an Altoids tin. I’m in the market for a digital SLR and […]

Makin’ Hobee’s Hashbrowns at Home

Posted: Sunday, January 6th, 2008 @ 4:35 pm in Cooking, Food, Recipes | 1 Comment »

Ever since Al got Dave and I hooked on Hobee’s when he took us to the Cupertino location about a year ago, we’ve been there more than any other restaurant here and we’ve got half the Hobee’s breakfast menu on reviewsby.us to prove it. We now know that there are locations all over the […]