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It’s funny what you find when you do a Google search on your own name. I found the following set of posts to a web site back in May 2000 when people had some concerns about the future of Mac IE: https://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/1673

It’s confirmed. My dad will be having surgery at Stanford Hospital on December 11th to correct the osteoarthritis he has in both of his knees. The procedure is called a Total Knee Replacement and he will be having both knees operated on at once. My parents will be here from Dubai for about a month. Let me tell you, this is one expensive procedure.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon is an excellent Xbox Live game. I’m totally adicted and have quite a few friends who play this game as well. The only problem is that the menu UI in this game is terrible. A great example of the need for good usability testing, even for console games.

I’m going to the San Francisco Auto Show on Saturday (11/23) morning. If you plan on being there or would like to join me, send me an e-mail by 11am PST.

I did end up going to watch that Golden State Warriors game on Wednesday. I watched them narrowly beat the Chicago Bulls. I was there as part of a Duke Alumni event to meet Mike Dunleavy after the game. Mike is a rookie with the Warriors and Duke alumni. This game was chosen because Jason Williams, one of Mike’s teammates at Duke, is a rookie with the Bulls and is also their starting point gaurd.

Duke is naming a new science research building The French Sciences Center in honor of Melinda French Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave Duke an additonal $30 million this summer, following on to a $20 million donation in 1998. Melinda is a member of the Duke board of trustees and earned her BS in Computer Science & Economics, along with an MBA. If remember correctly, she did all of that in five years. She went on to be an exec at Microsoft and is now married to Bill Gates. I had the chance to meet her once at a Duke Student Governement event.

I attended a reception and dinner last night with Duke University’s President Nan Keohane at the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco. I managed to run into a few old friends from Duke, had a quick chat with Nan, and got to check out the Four Seasons for the first time. It’s a very impressive hotel.
I also learned that there is a Duke Alumni event at the Warriors vs. Bulls basketball game tomorrow in Oakland. A bunch of Dukies will be sitting together and will get a chance to chat with Mike Dunleavy (Warriors) and Jason Williams (Bulls) who both helped Duke win it’s last National Championship in 2001.

Killer Whales in Rare Visit: In what could be the first documented sighting of orcas or ‘killer whales’ inside the Arabian Gulf, three Dubai-based boat captains on a fishing trip filmed a pod of six mammals surfacing about 20 miles off the Jebel Ali coast. [Gulf News]

Laptops Not Yet Maine-Stream. In rural Maine, seventh-graders have the same shiny new laptops as their coastal cousins. But with fewer resources and training, many teachers are learning to use the machines along with their students. In part two of a series, Katie Dean reports from Thorndike, Maine. [Wired News]

Just my luck. My Toshiba Portege 3505 Tablet PC has a problem with it’s digitizer that means it’s not tracking the pen while writing as well as it should. I didn’t even realize there was anything wrong until I used Omar’s identical unit. There’s a world of difference between the two. 🙁
Luckily, I’m keeping myself busy with XBox Live playing Unreal Championship. My Gamertag is “Fingerz”