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I ran into this problem tonight, but Dan Moren of MacUser had the answer: Dan Gillmor’s Blog. Thanks Dans!

I’ve been in LA since Thursday evening, visiting my parents and friends down here. On Friday, I lunched with Jason Calacanis (my new boss‘ boss‘ boss) at the Daily Grill, where we ran into Danah Boyd as we were leaving. Later that night, after dinner with my family at Javan Restaurant, I re-met a very old childhood friend, whom I haven’t seen in over 20 years, Arianna Haut. She recently moved back to LA — naturally we headed straight for…

Los Angeles Times; August 27, 2006: But experts say the biggest culprit in rush-hour traffic snags is a boom in Westside commercial development that has lured and created jobs. Job growth has transformed the area into the region’s premiere commercial hub, second only to downtown Los Angeles in the number of jobs. Each day, workers pour into office buildings lining busy corridors such as Wilshire Boulevard, the burgeoning towers of Century City and the rows of Santa Monica office parks…

I often like to say that The Daily Californian was my real journalism school. In the spring of 2001, my second semester as a Berkeley student, we had an editor in chief named Daniel Hernandez, or as he was sometimes known among his mates from the paper, “Street.” Having a nickname like that gave him, at least to me, a sort of a respectable rugged journalistic air about him. I never knew much about him, and never had the chance…

Yay! Oakland is on its way to getting a citywide network! [via MuniWireless]

Well, if you’re not a big enough geek to read the site on a regular basis, you can read everything that I write: here.

Well, I have to say this about Engadget: they sure know how to hook a brother up. Got the dude a 15-inch MacBook Pro, and a 24-inch Dell monitor to go with it. It’s pretty freakin’ sweet. I’ve been getting a crash course in all things Engadget over the last few days — and a couple of my posts have already hit digg. I’ve barely had time to follow my own email and RSS feeds. I begin full-time tomorrow bright…

Thanks for following me on my adventures, and for all of your support. I am now going to be the new Senior Associate Editor at Engadget. You can find my occasional personal ramblings here, and my more coherent daily stuff over there.

A new friend emailed me this morning, asking me about why I pronounce my name the way I do, and so I figured it was high time that I actually write up something to have for posterity. The name itself is Persian, but of Greek origin. The original Persian name is Kourosh (koo-ROSH). The one whom Anglophones call Cyrus the Great, is known in Persian history as Kourosh-e Bozorg, but as Greek lacks an “sh” sound, it became Kouros (koo-ROS).…

Go read my first Engadget post, on how Britain is banning Segways on sidewalks. I was over at Ryan’s house tonight, getting my first crash course in all things Engadget. It’s going to be a lot of fun, I can already tell. 🙂 (Those of you who’ve followed my work for a long time may remember my Daily Cal guest column from February 2004, where I took a Segway for a test drive.)