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Egypt: Journey Through the Land of the Pharaohs
For two and a half weeks, we would set off on the adventure of a lifetime through the land of the Ph...
1906 + 2010: The Earthquake Blend (Part I)
After reading San Francisco is Burning, Dennis Smith's superb book of San Francisco's react...
Not So Perfect Day to Climb Mount Sinai
The following account of the January 18, 2010 storm in Egypt was reported by the Associated Press on...
iPhone to Nexus One: Making the Leap
It's been exactly one week since I scrapped my iPhone 3gs 32gb in favor of the Google Nexus One. The...
San Francisco In Miniature
When the opportunity arose to see this magnificent wonderland of ingenuity and craftsmanship while s...
Windows Vista: Top 12 Reasons To Stay Away—Stay Very Far Away
No, I don’t think that Bill Gates is the devil and I’m not one of those militant anti-MS nutballs. I...
Aboard the Zeppelin: the World’s Largest Airship
At 246 feet, it's a tad longer than the new Airbus A380 and dwarfs the Goodyear Blimp. There are fou...
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Inside the Old Fleishhacker Pool House
It was the largest pool in the world and a San Francisco icon. At 1000 feet long by 160 feet wide an...
Welcome to Drawbridge: The Bay Area’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Drawbridge, CA Population: 0 Elevation: 7 ft and sinking Over a hundred years ago it was...
China: Land of Dragons, Emperors, and 1.3 Billion People
After nearly two weeks of braving the rain and snow, feasting on donkey meat and chicken feet, inhal...
The Old Abandoned Bayshore Roundhouse
Surrounded by barbed-wire fence lies an old Bay Area relic: the abandoned railroad roundhouse in Bay...
Yikes I Got a Mac!
It's with a heavy heart that I must say farewell to an old friend...for now. I began dabbling in ...
I Went To Japan, Dattebayo!!!
In late June I jumped on a last-minute travel deal to Tokyo, two months after Japan's devastating ea...
200 Yards: A Photography Experiment
200 Yards is a San Francisco-based photo experiment presented as an offshoot project by the fine fol...
