Monthly Archives: March 2004

Free Wi-Fi

Borrowing a page from Ginny’s site, I am writing (although not as eloquently) short reviews of wi-fi hotspots in my area. I will only, however, be covering free wi-fi hotspots. They’re really the only ones worth mentioning (so sorry Starbucks). The following are listed by the order I discovered them. Quickly, Fremont Blvd., Fremont – [...]
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Corazon Musical

Unusual sight at the local social services agency today: two female Hispanic TV hosts were taking music video requests from random people, Hispanic and non-Hispanic alike. I got my turn to be asked whether I wanted to be on TV or not. I declined. I wasn’t the only one though. A matronly Arab woman turned [...]
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Laki Sa Layaw

Watch Fil-Am film shorts by Jeproks, Inc., an off-shoot of local Pinoy arts collective Bindlestiff Studio. [via Heidiologies]
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Jobs & Sculley in 1984

Look at what I unearthed while doing some spring cleaning in the garage several days ago: a BusinessWeek magazine dated November 26, 1984 with Steve Jobs and John Sculley on the cover. A year and a half before this issue appeared in the newsstands Jobs lured Sculley from Pepsi to become the CEO of Apple [...]
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How Now, BlogPa?

Paulo is back from hiatus! He’s now using the sub-domain “hownow” to further strengthen the brownpau brand, among other things. Did you know that Mr. Ordoveza is my blogparent?* On the fateful day that was Christmas Eve 2002, I met Paulo during his visit to the Bay Area. I was a faithful brownpau.com lurker reader [...]
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