Views by the Bay

Kludge first, tidy up later. We're not power Internet users, i.e., we don't need to stream high-definition video for hours on en...

Like many Americans, your humble observer pays some attention to politics--it's hard to avoid the subject because of news coverage and b...

Internet scams can steal thousands of dollars from victims who at least were in no direct physical danger....until crooks began luring unsus...

Double doors' double entendres We drove to Sacramento for the biennial neurological exam . Sam said that everything looked normal. U...

"Blues Brothers" at Universal Studios During our brief trip south we spent a day at Universal Studios . We could have gone to ...

Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) - NASA photo Too many of our heroes turn out to have feet of clay, but not Neil Armstrong, who died Saturday ...

The Apple-Samsung verdict is in after surprisingly quick 22-hour deliberations [bold added]: Nine jurors delivered a sweeping victory to...

Single-lane traffic moved at 55 mph on the road south. One advantage that the Mainland has over my home state of Hawaii is that it's...

I stopped off at the local Safeway to buy supplies for a short car trip and to pick up a coupon for the Foster City "touchless"c...

Oakland Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon has received a 50-game suspension for using synthetic testosterone. The 39-year-old pitcher was in ...

The old saying on Wall Street is that stocks decline when summer begins, i.e., sell in May and go away. Here's some supporting evidence...

Scott McKenzie, who sang the ballad "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," has died at the age of 73. Mr. Mc...

The latest chapter in his 50-game suspension makes Melky Cabrera look especially bad. Per the NY Daily News: [bold added] San Francisco ...

OK, maybe the Apple-Samsung patent trial of the century isn't as exciting as we originally thought : As the arguments wind down, Apple ...

The shopping center was built on the Tanforan Park racetrack . I like hangin' at the Tanforan Food Court. Lured by $5-7 lunch pric...