Category Archives: San Jose Bay Area

Kinko’s Campbell as a Third Place

Posted on December 29, 2019 by James Briggs

Kinko’s Campbell used to be 24 hours around 2004, and as the only place open, had a vibrant late-nite community of regulars. Later the hours were reduced by the regional manager, and then Fedex bought the chain. On most nites, … Continue reading →

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Major Accident Outside Stonestown Galleria Mall

Posted on October 26, 2019 by James Briggs

Late Friday nite (Oct. 25), I happened to be looking towards the 19th Avenue and Winston Drive intersection outside the Stonestown, Galleria Mall, SF, when a major accident occurred. A car at high speed ran into another car doing a … Continue reading →

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Percona Live MySQL Conference 2017

Posted on May 3, 2017 by James Briggs

Percona Live 2017 was again a well-organized and well-attended Open Source database conference this year in Santa Clara. Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO, Percona Each year a different conference theme emerges. This year I would say it was timeseries databases, … Continue reading →

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Retro: GeoCities Cage Photos [1999]

Posted on November 25, 2016 by James Briggs

I had a chance to see the GeoCities Exodus 1 cage in 2000 when I was at eBay Payments. It used LaCie JBOD stacked to the ceiling as storage devices, and a 3′ diameter floor fan to move the hot … Continue reading →

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John Collins “The Paper Airplane Guy”

Posted on September 30, 2016 by James Briggs

CNN linked to a video of John Collins, “The Paper Airplane Guy.” John holds the world-record for paper airplane distance throwing. I had a chance to see John live recently when he gave a lecture and demo at my office … Continue reading →

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