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So you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now what?

Posted: Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 @ 1:13 am in Cooking, News, Photography, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Travel, Videos, Writing | 4 Comments »

Here is yet another attempt to keep friends and family updated on our activities without resorting to boring discussions about the weather (”It’s 10 below in MN? Wow, would you believe it got up to 66 here today?”) or work (”So Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, eh? What would you call them then, […]

RAWR! Microsoft Hungry!

Posted: Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 5:05 pm in Gossip, News, Politics, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 5 Comments »

Today it was announced that Microsoft is offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion. I am not a financial analyst or highly trained in business, but when I read, “With Microsoft paying a full price for a broken business where there’s not accelerating organic growth, I can’t make that work at all. I […]

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?