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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life.


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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Yellow Cab Toyota Prius Trip
Today I called a San Jose Yellow Cab taxi, and ended up with a new, yellow, shiny Toyota Prius. The driver said it was the first one in the fleet, and he loved it because he was only spending one-third … Continue reading
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Twiki Meetup in Santa Clara
There was a meetup tonite for Twiki users from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 North Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. I attended most of it, though 5:30 pm is pretty early for … Continue reading
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IMUG: OpenOffice.org Internationalization (I18N) Framework
Karl Hong, from Sun., gave a talk on the OpenOffice.org Internationalization (I18N) Framework at IMUG. Although ICU is a comprehensive i18n API today, it was not mature enough for most of OpenOffice’s development history. So at this point OpenOffice is … Continue reading
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Corporate Governance Meltdown at Citibank
I worked on an IT SoX project for a famous Silicon Valley networking company a couple years ago. Each publicly-traded company ended up spending millions on SoX-compliance – more than anybody realized – for technical measures. The aim was to … Continue reading
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A Little Competition at the Gym
I was impressed to see a young 5′ tallish Asian woman doing bent-over rows at the gym … with a 45-pound dumbbell. Way to go, girl! Just leave some weights for me though. (It ends up she was a former … Continue reading
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