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Groller's Corner: Week 1 high school footballKeith is dreamin' of going 26-0 for starters I think my 8-year-old daughter, Aimee, has a future as a photographer for one of those supermarket tabloids. Or at the very least she might be good at taking mug shots at the police station.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:56:50 -0700
NTU PRC student and Singapore PR moonlights as freelance prostituteA NTU PRC student who is also a Singapore PR was caught moonlighting as a freelance prostitute by a Lianhe Wanbao journalist disguised as an interested customer. It is not known if she is “foreign scholar” studying here on MOE scholarship. The Chinese evening daily received a tip-off from the father of a Singaporean girl studying at NTU [...]
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:37:26 -0700
Reporters' Roundtable: How to start a tech business todayToday we're talking about how to start a company in 2010 and 2011. A little background: I started covering startups in 1998 at a magazine called Red Herring. I wrote a daily column about startups called Catch of the Day. Over three years, I interviewed the leaders of over 1000 companies. Most of those companies are now out of business. The methods of starting companies in that dotcom bubble were ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:32:11 -0700
Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere manLeo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated "The Tech Guy" program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif. I don't stalk Laporte. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. Every time the tech-savvy broadcaster checks into a nearby place using ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:47:21 -0700
Greg Jayne column: Salmon, tigers and Wulff: Your Pac-10 primerFor a Pac-10 season that promises to be unpredictable, there’s only one way to approach the year — by attempting to channel Carnac the Magnificent. So, with sincere, heartfelt apologies to Johnny Carson (for you youngsters, Johnny Carson was a comedian who would provide answers and then . . . oh, never mind) let’s divine the answers to the upcoming season.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:12:31 -0700
