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San Francisco Examiner: Backlash of
Kerry claims

San Francisco Examiner: Backlash of
Kerry claims 08/13/2004 11:19 PM
CRACK IN THE MEDIA BLACKOUT .. Backlash of Kerry Claims .. SF Examiner

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San Francisco Examiner: Clintons in town
for double duty

San Francisco Examiner: Clintons in town
for double duty 06/29/2004 11:43 PM
San Francisco Examiner .. Senator Clinton .. promises

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Differences Examiner 1.4

Differences Examiner 1.4 07/28/2004 11:18 PM
Allows you to compare text files and display their differences.

The Webcomics Examiner

The Webcomics Examiner 06/17/2004 12:19 AM
The Webcomics Examiner

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Examiner shortage drives up pay

Examiner shortage drives up pay 05/17/2004 07:21 AM
An exam board has raised its pay rates for markers by about 25% in some subjects to try to tackle a shortage.

'No! the system's crashed' The diary of
an online examiner

'No! the system's crashed' The diary of
an online examiner 07/29/2004 06:36 AM
Education.independent.co.uk - Thu Jul 29, 09:07 am GMT

Retired patent examiner turned Rube
Goldberg

Retired patent examiner turned Rube
Goldberg 04/17/2004 06:15 AM
Arthur Paul Pedrick was a UK patent examiner who retired and filed many patents for whacky, impractical inventions.

A horse-powered car, putting the cart before the horse. To control the speed, the car's accelerator pedal varies the thrust which the horse must exert to reach its feedbox 2. The brake pedal is linked to the horse's halter. The ignition switch can give the horse's posterior a mild electric shock to stimulate it into movement.

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Bankruptcy examiner: WorldCom avoided
state taxes

Bankruptcy examiner: WorldCom avoided
state taxes 01/27/2004 12:14 AM
WorldCom engaged in a questionable program to reduce the state taxes it paid by millions of dollars between 1998 and 2001, according to a final bankruptcy examiner's report released Monday

Off to San Francisco

Off to San Francisco 04/09/2005 09:28 AM

Thanks to everyone who showed up in Mar del Plata to participate in the ICANN meeting. I thought that the discussion was healthy and productive and although we moved forward on a number of things, we are left with a lot of work to do based on the feedback we received on the strategic plan, the board governance guidelines, .pro, .net, IDNs, transparency, process and a number of other topics. Special thanks to staff for running such a great meeting in the absence of our CEO Paul Twomey. I think you did an excellent job.

Thanks to everyone who showed up for dinner last night and special thanks to Mariano for organizing everything. It was great to meet the Argentine bloggers. I'm sorry I was late. Our bus from Mar del Plata broke down and we had have them send a new one.

Thanks to Mookie letting me stay at his place in Buenos Aires.

I'm off to San Francisco today to do my usual rounds and to go a Institute for the Future retreat.

Since my flight doesn't leave until this evening, I hope I can do a bit of moblogging in Buenos Aires.

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San Francisco

San Francisco 06/11/2004 04:23 PM

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San Francisco day four and a bit...

San Francisco day four and a bit... 08/16/2004 02:02 PM

So the day before yesterday didn't go quite as I'd planned. I didn't go and see Dinah or her kittens, but I did get to give Flakes to Heather and then go with her to Taco Bell where we consumed about $16 worth of faux Mexican cuisine between us. Then there was the car wash, and the drive back into the city to go say hi to Derek, two chihuahuas and a cat named Spoo before wandering off to kid robot (dumb toys purchased: 2) and then Giant Robot in Haight Ashbury. Then there was a nice "Blue Meanie" smoothie in a wifi-enabled café which was pretty bloody pleasant, all things considered. The next planned excusion was the epic walk over to the Tonga rooms, which would actually have been pretty bloody epic if I hadn't walked in completely the opposite direction for the first twenty minutes or so. So I got a cab with a driver who listened to light country and suffered manfully the hell of Tim McGraw's My Next Thirty Years (and I quote):

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years

Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years

You see what I'm talking about? Anyway - so I got to the Fairmont a bit early and so decided to loiter around a bit in the foyer and read my new book while all the smartly dressed people looked at me strangely and tried to remember my face just in case they'd need to identify me in a Guantanamo tribunal later in the year. And then the event began and I got to talk to a couple of dozen neat cool web people that I just don't get to see enough. I danced (badly) with Mena and Dinah and Heather and chatted a lot to David about what it was like to be an Englishman living in the States at the moment which was extremely interesting. I felt a bit sorry for my poor ex-flatmate Mella who had just got off the plane in San Francisco and come straight to the bar because she didn't know anyone, but I think she enjoyed herself. And of course the bar's fake thunder, lightning, rain and floating boat/island/band were as awesome as ever...

Yesterday started a little more sedately with an enormous cooked breakfast over at the Pork Store with Leslie, Lance (also here) and Mella. Mella and I then wandered up into town, up Valencia and past a few second hand stores up to the Civic Center and then up Market for a bit of an explore. (This feels a bit like a 'what I did on my holiday' tract, so apologies for that.) And then after a few confusing disorganisational miscarriages, we ended up with a friend of Mella's called Emily driving through Chinatown, then walking up to Coit Tower and then down to Pier 39 for Oysters and general seafood. Then Mella wandered off to meet Emily's parents, while I returned back to Leslie's (past the San Francisco Bear Fair), met up with Ben Cerveny and Webb, drove around the city in a convertible car before wandering up to Molly's place and drinking a few glasses of wine and basically passing out. Nice evening!

And what's next over the next couple of days?

• Visit Six Apart
• Meet up with Kevin Marks for lunch
• See Ben Cerveny and Jim Speth and talk about geeky shit
• Try and do some gay stuff of some kind

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Art bashing in San Francisco

Art bashing in San Francisco 06/01/2004 12:22 PM

Third of San Francisco Without Power

Third of San Francisco Without Power 12/21/2003 07:25 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 6:38AM ET

CC Party Jan. 6 San Francisco

CC Party Jan. 6 San Francisco 12/29/2004 03:38 PM

Jon Udell, San Francisco

Jon Udell, San Francisco 11/10/2003 11:18 PM
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San Francisco update...

San Francisco update... 08/17/2004 03:19 PM

So what did I do yesterday... Er... Basically went for lunch with Kevin and Jesse where we talked about Apple and set-top boxes and food and stuff, wandered into Technorati and said hi to people (wave to Tantek), micro-bumped into Joi, then got the CalTrain up to see Six Apart (purely for fun), got a train back with Anil and finally wandered off to The Cafe for my required dose of gaydom, which was a bit weird as it was hip-hop night and I felt like everyone's fat beardy grandfather. So I got a bit drunk and danced clumsily and collapsed back at Leslie's unconscious at about one. Funny day.

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Return to San Francisco (already)...

Return to San Francisco (already)... 09/13/2004 08:25 PM

So I might - note might - be in San Francisco again in about three week's time for a few nights, well actually only really two or three nights: 6th October, (maybe 8th October) and 9th October. I'd be going to an event in Sonoma on the 7th and 8th, so it would really be a flying visit. Does anyone have a convenient pile of floor or sofa that they might be prepared to lend me?

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San Francisco Keeps Gay Weddings Going
(AP)

San Francisco Keeps Gay Weddings Going
(AP) 02/16/2004 09:13 PM
AP - As hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up at City Hall for the historic chance to wed with the city's blessing, opponents filed legal papers Monday arguing that only judges can declare California's prohibition on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional.

San Francisco, baby...

San Francisco, baby... 08/13/2004 01:59 AM

Ping. Now in San Francisco after cool drive with fun people in which I mostly slept and pointed at wind farms and acres of densely packed cows. Had subsequent great fun at the SixApart Mixer thing where I met loads of people - some for the first time, others not. Looked slightly nervous around some people who do really good work. Touched a couple of them without them noticing (or at least without them calling the police). Got a free USB dongle thing and saw the 3.1 release of MT which doesn't seem overly dramatic at first but kind of sits in the back of your head and wiggles its tush in the direction of interesting things. Cab back to Leslie's place - talking about The O.C. and TV shows in general when I get to pull out my trump card - super-secret super-cool thing that made Leslie go oooooh. Don't think I'm going to make it to LobbyCon now though. Shame!

I'm quite enjoying not taking this weblog as seriously as normal for a few days. It feels pretty liberating, although possibly not very productive or good in the longer term. God knows what it's going to be like going back to London. I can already feel it on the horizon and must confess am vaguely dreading it.

ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco

ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco 06/17/2005 02:05 PM
Though it's short notice, we'll have a number of Six Apart staff members participating in some events in San Francisco tonight where bloggers are gathering. We'd love to meet you there. First, with the release of the Tags plugin for...

Flowers for San Francisco

Flowers for San Francisco 05/31/2004 02:05 PM
There are quite a few people dropping by ongoing today on account of the article in the Chronicle about advertising. Among other things, it says I run lots of flower pictures, only I haven’t for a while, so here are some...

Just A Geek signing in San Francisco

Just A Geek signing in San Francisco 01/05/2005 02:15 PM

Good news, everyone!

When the press release went out about MacWorld, a lot of WWdN readers asked if there would be a reading or signing for people who were unable to afford admission to the conference.

Well, it turns out that we have a mole at Bor ders in Union Square. She made an introduction for me, and I am super excited to announce that I've been invited to their store for a reading and signing when I'm in town!

It looks like the Borders website hasn't been updated yet, but I'm scheduled for Friday January 14th at 7pm.

Oh! I just got a Really Big Idea™, that could be a whole bunch of Supercool: I have a short list of stories from Just A Geek that I choose from when I perform at bookstores. Based on comments and e-mail, I know there are a lot of WWdN readers in NorCal. How about, instead of me choosing what to read, I let you guys pick what you'd like to hear? If you're planning to come out on the 14th, say so in the comments, and leave a brief description, or chapter number, or page number, or whatever, and the majority will rule.

LinuxWorld's San Francisco shindig

LinuxWorld's San Francisco shindig 08/02/2004 12:20 PM
As the show kicks off, everyone wants a piece of the action. For example, does Sun really want to buy Novell? Also: Patent power.

Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco

Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco 04/21/2004 03:23 AM
Jed sez, "The Speculative Literature Foundation is holding an event in San Francisco this coming Friday, April 23, as a fundraiser for the new SLF Fountain Award for sf short stories of exceptional literary quality. The event will feature Pat Murphy, Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson, Ken Wharton, Charlie Anders, and Omnicircus ("an experimental, surreal-psychedelic musical-cabaret group"); 7:00 p.m., $10-$20 sliding scale at the door. It'll be at 550 Natoma, a few blocks from the Civic Center BART station, near 7th and Mission." Link

Same-Sex Couples Marry in San Francisco
(AP)

Same-Sex Couples Marry in San Francisco
(AP) 02/14/2004 10:21 PM
AP - Gay and lesbian couples from across the country answered this city's Valentine's Day invitation to wed in an unprecedented spree of same-sex marriages that has challenged California law and sent conservative groups scrambling for court intervention.

The Wild Parrots of San Francisco

The Wild Parrots of San Francisco 02/15/2004 07:32 AM
Wild parrots in San Francisco.

Wild parrots in San Francisco

My first year in San Francisco, I'm living in Russian Hill.

One day I hear squawking up above like I've never heard, and I love birds, don't know why, but I look up.

I see a flock of big green parrots, almost feels miraculous.

Since then, I learn that SF has two flocks of such parrots, and for years, Marc Bittner has been studying and feeding them. I feel this is really cool.

Today, I just finished his book the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and it was really good. It also discusses a related documentary by Judy Irving, same subject, and I gotta see it sometime. [craigblog]

When I lived on the Embarcadero - flocks of squaking parrots would coming flying across the sky.  It's wild.  A truly San Francisco experience.

San Francisco gay wedding boom

San Francisco gay wedding boom 02/14/2004 01:09 AM
Gay couples race to get married in San Francisco after the mayor lifts a state ban on same-sex unions.

Thoughts on MacWorld San Francisco

Thoughts on MacWorld San Francisco 01/07/2004 04:41 PM

I must admit I wasn't expecting anything earth-shattering from Steve Jobs yesterday and for the most part I wasn't disappointed. While unveiling some pretty cool toys, both hardware and software, he failed to deliver anything that on it's surface will immediately sway a consumer to purchase a Mac over a PC.

I say 'on it's surface' because Garage Band may become another one of those things that people fall in love with. The fact that he added it to the $49 iLife package is amazing. Face it, human beings love to create things and that includes music. Today's musical offerings are pretty bland so creating your own might be a good alternative. Garage Band now puts professional level music composition in the hands of the average consumer. A demo I saw last night showed a $99 keyboard hooked up to it and it sounded exactly like a grand piano. Not that cheesy midi sound you'd expect. Pretty impressive.

Other announcements included improvements to iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD as well as new iPod Minis. The knock against the new smaller iPods will be that for the capacity they aren't much cheaper than a slightly larger iPod. Keep in mind you are not paying for capacity, but rather the physical size of the unit. It's the size of a business card. It's the same reason Sony is able sell those tiny Vaios. People want smaller rather than bigger. It's not the $100 iPod everybody was hoping for, but they do come in five fashionable colors. Give him credit, Steve Jobs knows how to sell to your vanity.

The one thing that caught my eye yesterday was not mentioned at MacWorld. iTunes Music Store added lists of Billboards Top 100 songs for every year going back to 1946. While the lists are not complete they are fairly comprehensive. I must admit the fuel behind my Napster addiction a couple of years ago was how easy it was to find music I remembered from high school and college. I was never terribly interested in finding new albums on Napster or Kazaa because the vast majority of new music is rather unappealing. This is the kind of small enhancement that I think will keep Apple and iTMS ahead of Walmart and Napster in the online music biz.

All in all, not a bad day for Apple. Since these announcements focused primarily on software I'd expect some new hardware sometime this summer. Possibly G5 Powerbooks or 3Ghz Power Macs. It's the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh this year so I have no doubt that Jobs has something good in the pipeline.

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San Francisco may not regulate bl0ggers
after all

San Francisco may not regulate bl0ggers
after all 04/06/2005 11:08 PM
Blog: It looks like San Francisco political bloggers may be able to rest easy. Maybe. The Board of Supervisors has been...

San Francisco sues Microsoft

San Francisco sues Microsoft 08/30/2004 07:43 PM
Despite numerous out-of-court settlements with various state governments around the country, it appears Microsoft's legal woes aren't over yet.

San Francisco - LA - Enschede - Ashridge

San Francisco - LA - Enschede - Ashridge 08/27/2004 02:11 PM

So, back from Amsterdam for one day and then off to Ashridge for a day/night for a work thing. I got a decent night's sleep for pretty much the first time since I've been back in the country and am feeling slightly more creative and desperate to make something since coming back from Eurofoo. In the depths of last night we went into the grounds to try and find the bible circle - a stone bible on a plinth in the middle of a ring of enormous pine tress - and I managed to walk into a huge branch and scrape up half my face. And on the train this morning, I saw a woman wearing a T-shirt that read "I seem to have mislaid my boyfriend" reading a book called "It's Ok, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers". DNS on my work wifi network appears to be buggering around or I'd try and find you some links... Hopefully in the next couple of days I'll start writing about proper grown-up things again. But in the meantime, have fun!

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San Francisco Sushi Finder

San Francisco Sushi Finder 11/18/2003 07:53 PM
Nice. (There are other cities, too.)

San Francisco: Saturday morning...

San Francisco: Saturday morning... 08/14/2004 01:20 PM

So I kind of slacked off yesterday, if truth be told. Not a lot of exploring, not a lot of drenching myself in San Francisco - just a fair amount of doing things I like to do that I don't really often get the opportunity to do. So I went to see two films (the other one was the Manchurian Candidate - much recommended), bought a couple of books, a case for my iPod, had a really nice Clam Chowder and portion of Fish and Chips at San Francisco's best American restaurant and sat in Starbucks for a bit (thanks Anil) starting to catch up on all the cool stuff that's been going on around the web in the million years since we started working on representing programming on Radio 3.

Today I think is going to be more about getting some of the flavour of the city - or at least starting to ramp up my mucking around with local geeks. Hopefully I'm going to go see Danah's kittens in the next couple of hours, go see Heather at Taco Bell around lunchtime, and then go see a movie with Leslie this afternoon.

But all of this is really preamble to the main event which should be happening this evening - a drink and catch-up with local geeks at San Francisco's famous Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar from 8.30 this evening. Come along if you can. It'll be fun...

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Photos from Seybold San Francisco

Photos from Seybold San Francisco 08/20/2004 04:48 PM
The folks at Inside Mac Radio have posted a photo gallery from this week's Seybold Seminars in San Francisco...

On my upcoming trip to San Francisco...

On my upcoming trip to San Francisco... 06/17/2005 03:22 PM

So here's the plan - I'm flying to San Francisco on Saturday and I'll be hanging around until the 26th with all my geek hipster friends. But don't take that to mean that I'm busy all the time - I'm keen as ever to see (and meet) as many neat people as possible. When I go to San Francisco, I normally try and set up some kind of drunken evening at the Tonga Room - because the rain and the thunder and the tiki stylings and the lounge act are all so cool. But I am also aware that the cocktails are terrible and that maybe I've milked the experience as much as I can. So, guys, does anyone have any better ideas?

While I'm at it, I might as well put out another call - are there any glorious geek events, any particularly cool exhibitions or bars that I'd regret not going to? It's not every day I get a full week in my spiritual homeland to reconnect with the mothership. So what should I be doing?

Of course, no trip comes without its inconveniences, and this one is particularly poignant - while I'm on the flight to SFO I'll be missing the big reveal in the final episode of Doctor Who. This is doubly galling since I'm currently enduring hundreds of lunatic comments on my Doctor Who and Bad Wolf post. Regular visitors to the site may be getting bored of hearing about this, but things are way out of control - the post has received seven hundred comments as of now, and sometimes they come in at the rate of one or two a minute. The whole thing's starting to remind me of Kottke's famous Matrix meltdown. All of which is a roundabout way of saying don't spoil it for me until I've got my hands on a copy.

Anyway, as of this evening, I'm either in pre-flight limbo or stuck in some terminal interzone, and I'm hoping to take the opportunity to catch up with all the notes and writing I've been doing recently but haven't had a chance to post to my site. So more later...

Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco?

Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco? 06/17/2005 07:21 PM
Man, if it were anywhere near April 1st I would be seriously wondering about this story. BetaNews is reporting on a story at SiliconValleyWatcher that Google is attempting to map...

Segway Banned In San Francisco

Segway Banned In San Francisco 01/20/2003 07:39 PM
A quick search [google.com] on Google News reveals a Register article [theregister.co.uk] stating that the city council of San Francisco voted last month to ...

Power Being Restored in San Francisco

Power Being Restored in San Francisco 12/21/2003 01:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 12:35PM ET

MacWorld San Francisco Coverage

MacWorld San Francisco Coverage 01/05/2004 10:27 PM
dotmac.info will be bringing you live, up-to-the-minute reports of the MacWorld Keynote by Steve Jobs tomorrow. The event is scheduled to begin at 9am PT in the Moscone Convention Center, and we'll have full coverage of the presentation on our special event page.
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