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.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Piaw buys a car

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  I buy a car once every 10 years or so. While there are some who enjoy the person-to-person haggling, I don't enjoy it. 10 years ago, I...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Review: Stories of Your Life and Others

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I don't usually review short stories, since it takes less effort to read them than to read a review and then decide to buy them, but I...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Review: Enough

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It is no secret that John Bogle is a hero to many investors, myself included. Enough is his book themed the current rapacious greed that s...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Review: The Luck Factor

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After I read Richard Wiseman's article on how you can be lucky , I was intrigued enough to pick up his book on the topic, The Luck Facto...
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Review: More than you know

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More than you know is written by Michael J. Mauboussin, who teaches Security Analysis at Columbia University, the class that was pioneered ...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Gastronauts Launch Party

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Gastronauts Nate Keller and Mirit Cohen were two of the most talented chefs at Google, so when they sent me an invite to the launch party fo...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Reverse Brain Drain?

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There's always been a crap load of doom-saying about Silicon Valley, and the latest one by Vivek Wadhwa talks about how Chinese and Ind...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Review: Kool-Stop Salmon Brake Pads

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I must have done at least 100,000 miles of cycling by now, and the one piece of safety equipment that I've always relied on was brake pa...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Review: The Numerati

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The Numerati is Stephen Baker's exploration of the world of large scale information technology. Unfortunately, his approach supports my...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Upgrades should always have a positive connotation

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The sad secret of the cycling cottage industry is that they don't cater to the avid cyclist, i.e., the person who rides about 5000 miles...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Sting Followup

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After my sting and swelling reaction , my allergist did not want to test me for a month, so I went touring in Japan and came back before get...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

International Kindle Launches

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The big news is that the Kindle went international yesterday ! For $279 and a $2 delivery charge per book (and a $5 per week delivery charge...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

San Jose Rock & Roll 2009

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4235 Sy Usagichan M 30-34 Half Marathon Start: Gun 8:03:09 Chip 8:07:44 Splits: 5 Km 10 Km 10 Mi Finish O'All Sex Div Times: 29:18...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Why you should not tour like Piaw

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I've been a long time self-supported touring advocate. I am one for several reasons. First of all, I think it's more fun --- being ...
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Thoughts on Cycling in Hokkaido and Japan

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I really enjoyed the Hokkaido trip. It's a truism of cycling that cycling brings out the best in the people of the country we visit, and...
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Touring Hokkaido Tips and Resources

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The biggest tip I can give you is to not fly United Airlines to Japan. They've recently revised their bike policy to be $250 each way, s...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Review: House of Suns

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House of Suns is Alastair Reynolds' latest science fiction novel, not set in any of his other universes. The book itself is written fro...

Review: Born to Run

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Born to Run is Christopher Mcdougall's book about running. It brings together several threads: the first is about the Tarahumara runner...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Tour of Hokkaido 2009

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On August 25th, Yana & Mark Ivey, Brooks Sizemore and I did a Bicycle Tour of Hokkaido (the northern-most big Island of Japan). The ride...
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Review: Roku Soundbridge

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After the prior disappointment with the Logitech Squeezebox , I decided to give the Roku Soundbridge a try. To be honest, I wasn't expe...
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