I've left the World-wide Web Consortium meetings in Cambridge. These are my last Boston photos. I am I Denver now, in transit, and reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. On p. 28 he talks about the Curta -- read the site if you want to know more.

Hakon Lie, author of Opera browser, demonstarting a P800 phone running Opera.

It is lunchtime on the first day of the all-groups meeting of the World-Wide Web consortium. I'll try to get a picture of Tim Berners-Lee for the archives.

On the weekend we went to SF and Marin, mostly Sausalito and Kentfield. Here's the Golden Gate Bridge from the Discovery Museum in Sausalito, and a much clearer picture of the Golden Gate Bridge at the Brio woonden toy train exhibit inside the museum! (Looks real in these tiny pix!). The bees inside were pretty cool tii.

We also went to the Palace of the Legion of Honor, saw Rodin's The Thinker in front, and a suspiciously Louvre-I.M.-Pei-like glass pyramid in front.

The gray sky shot is San Francisco (at the horizon) across the bay from Sausalito. Good ice cream and a place to sit at Lappert's.

We went to the city for Friday and Saturday. There was a parking space right in front [1] of our our Hotel, the Savoy [2]. The trouble is, it was directly under a folded portable crane. [3] Various passers-by admonished me against parking there while I was taking the picture, but it was valet parking anyway.

We walked through Union Square up a steep hill and past some architectural details [4] to Cafe Prague for a quick bite before our 7:00 reservation at The Bubble Lounge.

To get there we had to walk through Chinatown [5], which was gearing up for the Chinese New Years parade.

On Saturday, we had brunch at Cafe de la Presse [6, 7], a great restaurant/cafe/newstand and later coffee at Cafe Greco in North Beach [8,9,10,11].


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Our car got a big rip in the rear window, and it was half the cost to come to Suquel, near Santa Cruz, to get it replaced. I was listening to the Columbia disaster news on the radio and missed the 101-85 turnoff and lost 20 minutes.

Three Miatas pulled up to Serious Auto [2] at the same time -- me, a guy from San Jose named Howard with a '97 needing an adjustment to his new roof, and two young women who bought electroluminescent switchable blue-green instrument panel backings.

Inside was half weird custom parts mostly with Japanese labels, all neatly arranged, and half tables covered with computers, switches, and routers. Since I was late and Howard was headed back, I forwent the promised ride and got a lift with Howard to beachfront Capitola. Howard was last here in November, when the big excitement was a pair of dead seals washed ashore in a storm. Thanks Howard!

I got 31ASU and never saw the antenna, but when I went behind a sea cliff [2] it switched to a distant cell tower and lost GPRS, and even though I went back and stood practically under the antenna, I had to rebvoot the Rf module to get it back.

I watched the waves at a jetty [4] and looked back at a pastel motel by the sea [5] [6] and then used my Hiptop to get directions from mapquest the Capitola Books Cafe that my wife found. It was about a mile, and on the way I passed a very tall, very rickety railroad bridge over an inland waterway [7]-[12] to arrive at the Book Cafe [13]. A little thin on the menu in the cafe, but it's homey and quiet, and next door to another Cingular/T-Mobile cell site in a parking lot, so I've got a good signal.

1:00 now -- time to call to see if the car is ready!

P.S. I forgot to include Ristorante Il Pirata [13][14] down by the water.

I thought it was an attack on his PDA! They just trimmed back a shrub in his yard.

Good weather for the hiptop.com/forums moderators visiting this week.

Congratulations Mikepop!

They look exactly like the Palm VII, including the flip-up antenna, but they are just kidie walkie-talkies. I wonder which is more useful? $18.99 for a pair.