The North Shore

Aquaman Phils

Hanging with the local kids at the Anna Marina dock on the island of Samal

Our boat guides cleaned the bottom of the boat at we snorkled

Philippines The Second Week

Jason, Jesse, & Farran the Spaniard

Not gangsta

Mariel, the school teacher from the island of Tablas

Two cocky jerk wads

Reese the Australian

Boracay from the air

Caticlan from the air

Manila from the air

You look fat

Sand Eel hunting on a private island off the coast of Samal

Anna Marina, Samal Island

I spent my birthday night here eating cup o noodles in the dark during a brown out.

What I'm reading

The first week...

Telly, Farran, & Jesse at the festival

A mobile Durian tree

Cock fight!!! I won 2000 pesos ($40)

The festival

Samal island with the Virgin Mary

Jesse joins a paramilitary motorcycle gang.

Three Jasons

The private island

A shipyard on Samal

Jesse & Telly on the private island

Jesse boarding the boat back to Samal

This guy had a pig on the back of his motorcycle and a fighting rooster on the front. The military guy examined the rooster to see how tough it was.

Google Wave Dies

Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave's innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily "liberate" their content from Wave.

Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.