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Tristan is a user experience designer and freelance software developer based in Berkeley, California. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2006 with a BA in Computer Science and enjoys photography, creating software the right way, making and listening to music, nature and the outdoors, writing about science and technology and life, and helping other people.
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I'm also the lead developer of Zenphoto, an elegant web photo gallery program. Check it out!

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news from around the web

Microsoft is Dead - What do you know, he’s right. Old news, yes, but good to realize.
Kuler - A great color scheme sharing and searching site from Adobe.
Discussion thread from the original iPod announcement. - Just goes to show how much people underestimate the power of good design!
Customer Service - A great article at Joel on Software on why customer service is so important. He’s right!
The Last Question - If you’ve never read this, it’s quite possibly the best sci-fi story ever written. Short and sweet, and so beautiful and true.
How to pour ketchup from a full bottle - Someone showed me this at dinner last night and it really works. I was amazed.
365 Days of Skywatching - A free e-book that shows what you can see in the night sky every day this year.
Wordpress 2.0! - I’ll review it soon. It looks like an improvement so far!
Zenphoto beta - get it while it’s hot!
Mint - Looks like a very well made stats app.

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Amazing Image of an Extrasolar Planet

November 14th 2008

This is a pretty incredible sight - a Hubble Space Telescope image of a planet orbiting a star 25 light years away from Earth. I am in awe. It’s not the first one ever taken of an extrasolar planet, but it’s certainly the clearest, and the first of one orbiting a normal star similar to the sun. The planet is about the size of Jupiter and estimated to be around 200 million years old. Amazing!