Zeigen

In just a few hours, the shuttle comes to pick us up, and we’re off to the big island of Hawaii (Kona side). So no blog updates for a bit. See you all soon.

For a few weeks now if you ask Sammy “What color is this?” the answer is always “Blue!”

Today Kimi called me over to show me that Sammy now knows how to count. He points at the various objects he’s counting and says, “Two, two, two, two, two, two, two, TWO!”

Baby
Baboo
Banana (”nana”)
Bath
Bee
Blue
Bottle (”baba”)
Buzz
Bye
Car
Cat
Dada
Dog
Down
Duck
Fish
Hi
Mama
Meow
Moon
Night night
No
Please
Quack
Roar
Shoe
Socks
Star
Tea
Thank you!
Tree
Truck
Uh-oh
Up
Water (”wawa”)
What’s that?
Woof
Wow
Yes
Yum (”mmmm”)

This article certainly made my day. He gives the feature I work on an A. Well, Amazon gets a B, and One True Media gets an A-, and I work on those as well. But I think those are good grades. (I’d have given Amazon an A, myself.)

Also, in other news, I was happy to see PC World pick TiVo (the original 14 hour unit we shipped back in 1999) as #3 on their article of the top 50 tech inventions of all time, right behind Netscape and the Apple II. I’m sure a huge amount of very detailed research and meticulous metrics went into their rankings, and it wasn’t just a bunch of guys sitting around a table drinking beer and tossing darts at a list on the wall. Very sure.

Zeigen Inc. begins deployment of level 4 containment devices for its Sammy product

Mountain View, Calif., April 5, /Newswire Press Release/ — Beginning this week, Zeigen Inc. has moved to level 4 toxic containment devices in controlling waste products from the Zeigen Inc. flagship product, Sammy 1.5.

Sammy 1.5’s progress has been accelerating faster than expected, and has reached the minimum 22 pound threshold required for level 4 containment devices.

Kimi Mack, Vice President of Household Operations, said today, “We’re pleased with Sammy’s new achievement. The level four containment devices today prevented a toxic release that would have consumed many cleaning resources. The previous level three devices, if they had still been in use, would have been disastrous.”

This milestone for Sammy 1.5 is a significant achievement, and Zeigen Inc. anticipates use of level five containment devices (also known as diapers) in an upcoming period, perhaps as early as Q4 of this fiscal year, given the anticipated growth for Sammy and the Sammy 2.0 release on September 16th.

About Zeigen Inc.: Founded in 1990, Zeigen has created a wide variety of leading web pages, products and services. The company is based in Mountain Vew, Calif. This release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, Zeigen’s business development strategies, future financial results, current and future partnerships, the expected future deployment and availability of the Zeigen service and Sammy products, future Zeigen service features and advertising technologies, future subscription growth, and other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Forward- looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, “believe,” “expect,” “may,” “will,” “intend,” “estimate,” “continue,” or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, as well as the other potential factors described under “Risk Factors” in the Company’s public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2006 and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2006, July 31, 2006 and October 31, 2006 and Current Reports on Form 8-K. We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. Zeigen disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Like cooking shows? Not my personal favorite, but Kimi loves ‘em. TiVo is proud to have TasteTV join the TiVoCast lineup. You can sign up for a TasteTV Season Pass immediately if you have a Series2 or Series3 TiVo-enabled DVR connected via broadband. The first episode, about wine, shows off a part of Napa Valley (wine country) that I’ve been to and enjoy very much.

Tonight was our second wedding anniversary, and to celebrate, John and Yvonne watched Sammy, and Kimi picked out a great Vietnamese restaurant in Palo Alto, Tamarine. (Yelp reviews for Tamarine.)

We started with the mushroom rolls and roti prata, which might have been a bit too much fried food, but were both very delicious. For the main course, we tried the signature Tamarine Prawns along with some curried long beans (green beans, that is), with lemongrass rice. I loved the prawns, and the rice was just amazing, and the beans weren’t bad at all.

For dessert, it was a lemon tart for me, and tapioca with ice cream for Kimi. Both delicious.

All in all I’d recommend the restaurant highly. It didn’t blow me away like Aqua did last year but very delicious, and wonderful to spend time together and think about two years of being married. Love you, sweetie, and thank you!

My blog is back in spring, and so’s my brother Harry’s! Check him out!

Will fill in some empty spots for March here and there, and goal is to have a post for every day in April, even if I have to cheat and put in some retro posts there and here.