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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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Daily Archives: December 20, 2007
A Nikon Christmas
In my family, adults just give each other Christmas cards for the holidays. It helps to focus on seasonal sentiment instead of consumer materialism. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do some personal shopping … I picked up a Nikon … Continue reading
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