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OpenID Summit Tokyo 2026 "Special Edition" Closing Keynote

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OpenID Summit Tokyo 2026 “Special Edition” Closing Keynote

The tickets apparently sold out instantly, so I had not introduced this event here; however, tomorrow, August 26, I will appear at the OpenID Summit T…

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San Jose & Palo Alto

San Jose has an attraction called the Winchester Mystery House. It is a house of obsession—or perhaps delusion—that the widow of the manufacturer of Winchester rifles kept building…

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Halfmoon Bay & Stanford

I left the Palace Hotel at 10 a.m. I stopped at the Longs Drug behind Visa International in Foster City and used my Citibank cash card to buy pain relievers (Naproxen Sodium/200 ca…

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Fishermen’s Grotto #9

Fishermen’s Grotto #9 is an upscale seafood restaurant founded in 1935. The last time I came, I was seated on floor 1, but today I had a spacious, relaxing seat on floor 2. A…

San Francisco

For the first time in a long while, I came to San Francisco on a private trip. In the morning, I had some tough negotiations with people visiting from San Francisco, then jumped on…

Even One Finger Is Inconvenient

Yesterday, I made a small mistake and caught the middle of the first joint of my ring finger in a door hinge. I still have no feeling beyond the spot where my ring finger was caugh…

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As Though Cutting Off the Past

I had my hair cut on Sunday evening. I had it cut quite short. Because of that, a good many people said to me today, “You got your hair cut.” When a man gets a haircut, it is easy…

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