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Martine Pagé, sentenced to 20 years at Alcatraz for looooooking gooood!

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Loyal readers know that I like my pizza. As I get older and as my experience with pizza broadens, I find myself drawn into the elusive search for so-called “authentic” Neapolitan style pizza. (No, that doesn’t mean a pizza made with three flavors of ice cream; it means a pizza like they make in Naples.)
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Back home that is, after a couple of weeks in California. I made only one blog post while I was there, partly because my laptop was being a pain in the butt and partly because we were having too much fun doing analog things with real meatware.
So now I’m home, with a few stories and [...]

Martine and I are in California. We came for a wedding, but we’re sticking around a while longer, just for the heck of it.
We’ve covered a lot of ground in the last few days; from San Francisco to Truckee and Lake Tahoe, back to San Francisco by way of Napa Valley, and then down to [...]

According to SearchEnglineLand and a few other sources (hey, I read ‘em all, folks), Facebook is opening up to Google and other search engine crawlers. Most people won’t care, some will rejoice, and a few will recoil.
One of the attractive things about Facebook is it’s “walled garden” approach; that means you have to be a [...]

Within the next couple of months, Sigma is going to release its long-awaited DP1 digital camera. Why that is a big deal, and why people like me would drool over a camera that doesn’t even have a zoom lens, are subjects for another post. Today I’m going to introduce you to one of the worst [...]

While I understand that providing change for parking meters can be somewhat annoying for downtown retailers, it boggles my mind that some flat out refuse to do so, even posting signs in their windows saying so. This is, if you ask me, a high water mark in “don’t-get-it-edness.” These people are your customers. They’re in [...]