Tom Coates
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"Tom Coates" is a technologist and early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999. He has written extensively about social software, the web of data, location services and future media distribution and launched the Fire Eagle location service for Yahoo in 2008.

Coates was educated at the Norwich School (educational institution)/Norwich School, the University of Bristol and the London College of Printing. He worked at the BBC running an Research and Development/R&D team for BBC Radio, and before that he developed the geo-coded online community UpMyStreet Conversations. He has also developed online communities for emap and was Production Editor of Time Out (company)/Time Out's website. His professional written work includes film reviews for the BBC, contributions to Time Out city guides and comment pieces on technology for The Guardian.

From late 2005 until 14 May 2010 Coates worked for Yahoo!, initially for the Tech Development team with Caterina Fake, Jeremy Zawodny and Simon Willison. and later as Head of Product for the Brickhouse product incubator.

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If they would just take that $5 or $10 and put it into savings, they would be much better off.

She knew that we were losing Jess, and she just set in her mind - and went out and bowled in summer and fall leagues - the goal of being the anchor. She came in averaging 179 - 25 pins higher than last year - and she's even doing better than that now.

When Jess Lowery left us last year, she was a top-notch bowler. But the girls pulled together and bowled as a team. That's how we did so well. I can't say enough about them. For them to win [a Conference title] a second year in a row is impressive. To their credit, they figured out how to bowl as a team.

My view against names reporting has changed quite dramatically. People used to think it would deter people from getting tested. But the experiment's been done, and it hasn't happened. ... It's time not to worry about it any more.

The typical exposure has been an occasional lapse for a variety of reasons -- the condom broke, the condom slipped, they in the heat of the moment forgot to put it on -- and typically followed with a great deal of regret and remorse.

If you can pay two to three times the minimum then it makes sense to negotiate your rates.

A lot of people who are buying tickets are the ones who have to spend less on groceries to afford it.

They focused on their game, not searching on the screens to see who's got what. Amy was totally relaxed all day. Patterson was like that too. For me, it was terrific sitting back watching this whole thing come together. It was a lot of fun. I was so proud. We were really thrilled.

I think this start here is just the effect that Jess and [fellow graduate] Andrea Bevilacqua had on this team. All we ask is for the girls to go out and just bowl. We don't want them worrying about the shot once it's shot or their score. Jess had a lot of impact on that. That's the way she approached things.