On Wednesday, we began at this Redwood Shores building where Avistar is headquartered. I had an animated discussion with Jerry Burnett Alan Usas who gave us his business card and Marsha about the delivery of video over networks. Before leaving I captured this picture of Jerry's beautiful object d'art made of glass from Murano and these 2 paintings that adorned the lobby of the building.

The next stop was to have this lunch with Matthew from Nuance, a company specializing in speech understanding. After lunch, we drove back to Mountain View to park across the street from Handspring at Pinnacle Systems where we met Tim Heidmann and took him to lunch at this restaurant with the marvelous display of hats.

After a short rest back at the hotels, we headed for Larkspur where we were greeted with a plate of bruschetta as we met J. Michael Mahoney for dinner at Fabrizio where the menu offered wonderful suggestions. We began with this bottle of sparkling water. I began with the insalata mista and as I was taking this picture of the salmon that Mike had this waiter came by with my plate of gnocchi porcini after which he took this picture of the 3 of us. I finished my food photography with this glimpse of the fish Marsha had. The dessert tray required 2 pictures before we could agree to share the white chocolate mousse with 3 spoons. The meal ended with complimentary port after which I went back for some hand washing signs for my collection. The restaurant wasn't done with us still bringing us some complimentary cookies with which to finish our meal. In all, it was a good dinner!