The Himalayan Fair is at North Berkeley’s Live Oak Park Saturday & Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend

The wonderful Himalayan Fair is at North Berkeley’s Live Oak Park this weekend.
Dates & Times – Saturday 29 May (today 10:00 am to 7:00 pm), Sunday 30 May 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
There’s wonderful music, dance, food, and crafts.
Visit the Himalayan Fair Website for more information

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Google Earth Integrates with Foursquare Checkins!

I love to read maps.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki’s Holy Kaw! Alltop Blog, I know know how to integrate my FourSquare Check Ins with Google Earth!
I can think of all sorts of cool ways to integrate my love of mapping with my love of Berkeley’s wonderful neighborhoods.

Click on the map to learn how you can do [...]

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Flickr is a superb place to post my Art Deco Photos

I just learned about a plug-in for my Wordpress Blog, so decided to take it for a test drive with this post!

Oakland CA Art Deco Architecture – Oakland Fox Theater

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Thousand Oaks Neighborhood Association Meeting – Coexisting with Wildlife in Our Neighborhood

Tonight’s TONA (Thousand Oaks Neighborhood Association) meeting is about wildlife.
The 4 legged wildlife we see in Thousand Oaks – deer, raccoons, squirrels, possums, and more … not the wild life you might see near Berkeley’s other watering holes.  Roxanne Bowers, with the California Department of Fish and Game, is tonight’s speaker
The meeting is at the [...]

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Jazz on Fourth Street – Berkeley’s Fourth Street Neighborhood

The 15th Annual Jazz on Fourth Street festival is today from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. It’s an outdoor festival to benefit the Berkeley High School Jazz Program.
Raffles, food, brew, and great music, face painting, and more!
After the festival … stop by to see our sweet Oceanview cottage at 1650 Tenth Street.

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There was a fire on San Luis Road this week – BerkeleySide has a powerful letter from Anne Whyte on what to do

A powerful letter from Anne Whyte – What to do if your home is damaged in a fire

Anne Whyte lost her home to a fire – she wrote a powerful post about what to do if this happens.
Here’s the link to her berkeleyside.com post.

There are several things which everyone can do to prepare for earthquakes [...]

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Hidden Gems Of Berkeley Bicycle Tour is Saturday 15 May 2010 starting from the Northbrae Branch Library

Hidden Gems Of Berkeley Bicycle Tour is Saturday 15 May 2010 starting from the Northbrae Branch Library
I met John Coveney about 6 months ago and found out that he was the cartographer for the amazing map “Hidden Gems Of Berkeley”
I’m not sure it’s available digitally yet, but I just found out that there is a [...]

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I love taking photographs of Art Deco Architecture

I love taking photographs of Art Deco architecture, and I’m trying out some different ways to present the photos
Uploading and geocoding to Flickr is one way, setting up a web page with all the photos is another, and a javascript page is a third.
Here’s sample of the first two types of presentation – which do [...]

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Charming Bungalow near Cafe Fanny, Acme Breads, Kermit Lynch & 4th Street Shops

Open Sunday 9 May 2010 2:00 to 4:30 pm
1650 Tenth Street at Virginia – 2 bedroom 1 bath – $400,000
Trendy West Berkeley neighborhood just a few blocks to Cafe Fanny, Acme Breads, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant … and close to Berkeley’s 4th Street Shopping District.
Beautifully updated jewel box bungalow has been newly refurbished and sparkles with new designer [...]

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What’s the distribution Berkeley real estate home sales – organized by bedrooms and price range?

I was curious how many Berkeley homes sold in each price range … and how the sales were distributed by number of bedrooms.

The distribution of 2 bedroom home prices shows a darn near perfect bell curve.
This graph takes a long time to create, so I’ve not yet done it for 2009 sales.
The data comes from [...]

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