Today I'm going to shamelessly put my travel-writing on hold and revert to my normal geek-gal state. This week, O'Reilly's Velocity Conference will be happening in San Jose, CA and a couple of my friends from my Amazon days ...

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We love weekend family bike rides - usually along the Burke Gilman trail in Seattle. On a recent Sunday cycle, we almost missed the micro-micro Gilligan's Brewing Company. Always eager to support new local businesses, we stopped for a tasting. ...

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This summer we'll be in Seattle and I'm looking forward to it. Seattle has a pretty well-deserved bad weather reputation for our damp and dreary Winter (and sometimes Spring and Fall too), but in the summer we have lazy, hazy days with ...

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