Last night Denmark played their immediate neighbor Sweden in a crucial qualifying match only one team would advance from. The day started with a rude awakening of yellow and blue-clad Swedes beer-fortifying at 7am just outside my window. As the day went of the city was full of red and white clad Danes as well [...]

Next weekend a group of us are hiking in to the Sierra Club’s Benson Hut, a sturdy mountain cabin at 8,350 feet about 6 miles south of Donner Pass. It’s a 4 mile hike from the the Mt Judah lift at Sugarbowl and offer access to what we hope will be some big fields of [...]

Twitter is a SMS-oriented messaging service that allows one to make a group of friends you can send a single message to all at once they can get on their phone or computer. It’s become quite popular with geeky folk, almost to an unweildy degree, but if you keep your circle of friends small, it’s [...]

This image was shown at at SXSW panel on building websites for international usage. Click to see full size.

It was made by Bettina Speckmann and Marc van Kreveld of Utrecht University.

Spent Xmas and New Years on Hawaii’s Big Island with the family this year. It was a real swell time.
I took a bunch of photos which gives many insights to something I should probably pay a therapist to explain to me.
My brother, however, took many excellent photos, devoid of any family complications.

All photos © [...]

 
Two good friends Patrick and Cody climbed up and skiied down Mt. Rainer last weekend. They asked me to go about 100x times, but the vision of roping up, shifting crevasses and melting snowbridges made me decide otherwise.
Cody did an excellent job photo documenting, annotating and story telling … so good in fact [...]

Jingan Park. aside Jingan Temple is a well maintained tranquil park popular during the days with the retired crowd. Lots of strolling, card, chess and domino playing and tai chi.
Here’s a quick clip of a group that meets for dancing:

Here’s a group that get’s together to sing:

The view from Shanghai’s ‘The Bund’ across the river to it’s twin city Pudong rivals any modern ubran skyline. Note the ‘video’ displayed on the side of an entire building. Stunning.

Videographer I’m not … sweet video camera mine is not … I posted these anyway
View of Hong Kong and Kowloon from Victoria Peak

The next day there was an article in newspaper about how nice it was to have a non-smoggy day, so I guess we got realy lucky with getting a clear view. Too bad [...]

      
Hong Kong has been like visiting New York City, if you had grown up in North Dakota. Eating, getting around, exploring, sight seeing have all been pretty much as your instincts suggest, but you never can actually expect how it’s going to be. I expected translation issues would be harder, but I didn’t expect to [...]