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More brains!

At the San Francisco Exploratorium.

Goodbye chocolate sleigh!

Wed 12/26/2007 18:39 12262007549

A friend in Germany sent this-- a chocolate sleigh with two little passengers.

The kids report that their beards were made from mint-flavored white chocolate.

I'm definitely going on a serious diet in 2008.

Flat Christmas

Tue 12/25/2007 10:53 12252007453

Lots of flat gifts this year!

The Nokia is back

Just in time for Christmas-- my long lost cell phone arrived today, good as new. Now i need a titanium shell, a case made with carbon nanotubes woven into the fiber, or something. I don't want another thing dangling from my belt, but I want to send it back to the repair center even less.

After this most recent mishap, I wonder how long it will be before cell phones are made like watches. How long before designs and especially interfaces are standardized enough so phones can be built for durability

Lifeblog post

Mon 12/24/2007 15:15 12242007390

My phone is back!

Tree in Palo Alto

Thu 11/29/2007 16:18 11292007334

Greetings from Cafe del Doge

I spent the day with my son, who has had a bad cough and needed a day off. But tonight I had dinner with a colleague, and an topping the night off with a drink at the uber cool Doge. A little time to be a grown up.

Trying predictive typing

I decided to try out the predictive spelling feature on my Nokia genius phone. Its pretty interesting. Normally, to spell, say, the word interesting, you have to push a total of 24 keys (i.e., 4 three times to type the letter i, 2 twice to type the letter n, etc.). Instead, you tap the following keys:

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The phone starts guessing with the first number:

i
in
got
inte
inter

And so on. It does a rather good job, too. Though it feels odd: you almost HAVE to not look at the screen as you type, and he you make a mistake the result is not a misspelled word but the wrong word spelled right. Definitely requires ignoring some familiar habits.

I want dinner NOW!

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Playing Wii boxing

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