Views by the Bay

The colombarium at the National Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl crater. Memorial Day, 2011, is especially poignant because this year m...

Someone couldn't spare 10 seconds to put away the cart, center . I can understand the fascination with end-of-the-world predictions. ...

Thoughts upon viewing this sign: 1) Californians are pigs. 2) Sure makes me want to continue on the trail. 3) Rats! I didn't bring...

LinkedIn's initial public offering and subsequent trading activity, which valued the company at $8.8 billion on Friday, have traders, sp...

Devra, Kris, and Tessa Last night I had dinner with some old and new friends. Diane roasted a nine-pound ham, enough for the six servers ...

Four miles in, the elevation is 1,600 ft. Recent appointments in Mountain View have not been tightly scheduled, and I've been using ...

The Giants swept the Rockies in a three-game series over the weekend and closed Colorado's division lead to one game. Two hot dogs ...

Steve Jobs to Apple's MobileMe team after the 2008 product launch failed: He asked the team what MobileMe was supposed to do. Someone a...

Early this morning the youngster walked a mile to the local supermarket and bought roses for his mother. After walking back he put the flowe...

Thoughts on the death of Osama Bin Laden: 1) If hell exists, and if OBL is not in it, then everything written about Christian theology and...

A new President was enthusiastically voted into office on the promise of reversing the six-year-old war policy of his predecessor, only to k...

The returns from our Treasury bills are even more pathetic since we last wrote about the subject . $1.52 of interest on $10,000 invested ...

We can't bid adieu to April without a few paragraphs about the Foster City Earth Day Fair held two weekends ago. The "librarian...

President Obama today released his "long form" birth certificate , finally pricking, it is to be hoped, the bubble of fevered spe...

Stocking up before their removal from the market: Edison would be proud In honor of Earth Day I replaced six compact fluorescent light bu...