Piaw's Blog

I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Friday, September 29, 2006

Are human lives too short?

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This idea came to me while we were having dinner during our Coast to Coast walk . Human beings live for too short a time. As a result, we ar...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Review: Smallville Season Two

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My big criticism of Season One was that it felt very much like the monster of the week. There was relatively little plot continuity, and wh...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Wheelbuilding with the Park TS-2

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I had a sinus infection (on my birthday, no less!), so no riding this weekend. But thanks to my brothers and Lisa, I got a Park Truing Stand...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Guest Poster

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My brother is now guest posting on this blog with movie reviews, etc, so if you see sudden changes in tone check the posted by line. Welcom...

A Moment With You movie Review

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I watched the Google screening of this yesterday. My initial reasons to watch this was that it had a really cool poster, paper airplanes es...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

S&S couplers revisited

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In the year and a half since I wrote the article, S&S couplers considered harmful , I've really been vindicated. One of my co-worker...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Time to plug the gtags internship again

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Those of you who've read my blog before will note that I was looking for an intern for gtags a while ago. Well, my blog doesn't get ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Review: Smallville Season One

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One of the best things about the TV format for a series is that you can really take your time to explore the subject. In this particular cas...

My 15 Minutes of Fame

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Piaw Na, another engineer, stopped by to browse. He bikes to work from his home in Sunnyvale and can never make it to the library before it ...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Lisa shot this image while descending the cables...

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As you can see, the descent was quite steep! 

At the foot of the cables at Half-Dome

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A far cry from last year's image . The difference? This year's image was taken at 6:30am on a Sunday. 

Piaw & Lisa Enjoy the Sunrise on Half-Dome

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Rainbow at the Foot of Vernal Falls

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Economist does an about face

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The Economist used to be a climate skeptic, gleefully publishing article after article claiming that of all the good things you can do with ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Product Endorsement: Tax Resources, Inc Audit Protection

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I've been paying the $35 a year fee for TaxResource's audit protection service every year in recent years as part of my turbotax fil...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Ongoing Mac Mini Review Part IV

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It seems to me that perhaps my past notes on the Mac has been quite negative, so on a positive note, here's what I found good about the ...
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Tanya & Lisa at Overlook & Canon

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Only 22 miles, but it was a fun ride! (No we didn't climb Overlook... sort of ran out of time) 
Monday, August 28, 2006

View of Montebello Road from last Wednesday Morning's Ride

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This was taken from the Motorola Razr camera phone I had with me. The picture quality sucked, but I think it captured the mood very well. ...

The wedding took place at the Greens Restaurant

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in San Francisco, which is located right next to the Long Now foundation , which is very much worth a visit if you're there. Christine...
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Congratulations to Christine & Tom for their wedding

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