Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:52 PM Subject: [Encina Update] Encina Update (mailing list/alumni party/reunions/65/70/75/80/85/90/95/siblings/hungersite/web work/yahoo mail/store/photos/music/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI, The Encina Alumni party is this Saturday, March 18th at Mandango's. Lots of folks from different classes have signed up and I'm sure others will drop in without RSVPing. Don't miss it if you're in town! MAILING LIST Congratulations to Ron Bettencourt 70, the 700th member on the encinaupdate mailing list. There are almost 5000 Encina alumni and staff in the alumni database! ALUMNI PARTY From Lucia Churches 73: Here's an updated list of Encina alumni who will be attending the party at Mandangos (corner Fulton and Hurley) this Saturday at 5 p.m. Join the fun, if you're not on the list! Please RSVP to me directly. Thanks! Lucia Churches Class of 73 loosha@pacbell.net (916) 369-2505 work Alumni Party RSVP List Vicki (Adamek) Mongan 74 Norm Axtell 79 Chris Ballance 94 Mary (Beekman) Bergen 76 Stephanie (Bush) Patton 81 Marla (Byerley) Windham Sande (Byerley) Jaeke Eric Carleson 73 Lisa (Churches) Wicks 75 Lucia Churches 73 Mark Churches 78 Lorna (Cline) Gragg 73 Cynthia Connell 73 Jenifer Connell 76 Karen (Dellinger) Nissen 76 Rudy DiMassa 74 Stephanie Dugas 73 Pat Dunn 73 Karen Edwards 76 Mike Fahn 73 Peter Grassi 70 Scott Harris 73 Chris Heimburg 73 Steve Hodges 93 Michele (Horton) Noller 88 Dona Jones 73 Tami (Kehoe) Brodnik 77 Sue (Kehoe) Jacobson 72 Heather Kendall 73 Kathleen (Ketcherside) Arceo 73 Ron Kraushar 72 Kelly Lane 74 Chuck Long 65 Sally (Long) Hite 62 Jim Meleski 70 Bob Nannini 73 John Nunez 74 Dale Patton 81 Janice Patton 76 John Patton 75 Nancy Patton 73 Mark Repesha 74 Rett Smart 73 Leslie (Silva) Cameron 65 Linda (Weatherford) Ballance 62 Sheran (Weatherford) Yeager 62 Bill Wicks 75 (went to Cottage School) Norm Axtell 79 has volunteered to DJ for free if they can get permission from Mandango's. Norm is a mobile DJ on weekends. REUNIONS I'm glad to hear that the George Hullin 65 is hosting a meeting to discuss the 35 year reunion next week. And we've located Pamela Deason 70, who tells me that the reunion committee is already in place for their 30 year reunion. 1965 REUNION George Hullin is hosting a meeting to discuss the 35th reunion at his house on Wednesday, March 22. Looks like the wheels are turning... 1970 REUNION We've located Pamela Deason Thomas 70, who informs me that there was already a reunion committee in place. I just didn't know about it. Many thanks to whoever told Pamela about the Encina website and had her contact me. And apologies to Gloria Reynolds, who I talked into chairing the reunion committee only last week. Sorry about that! If you are interested in attending or helping with the 30 year reunion, please contact Pamela Deason Thomas at egishome@aol.com 1975 REUNION Where: Sutter Club When: Saturday, July 15, 2000 Contact Jenny Bender Bittner at jedb@pacbell.net 1980 REUNION Where: The Firehouse When: Saturday, October 14, 2000 Contact: encina1980@egroups.com 1985 REUNION No news regarding the elusive Melinda Cope 85. Do we have any other reunion committee members present? Send email to encina1985@egroups.com if you are interesting in attending and/or helping organize the 15 year reunion. 1990 REUNION If you are interested in helping or attending the 10 year reunion this year please contact Denyce at tiniegrrl@Aol.com 1995 REUNION Do we have anyone from the reunion committee on the mailing list? Please write encina1995@egroups.com if you're interesting in attending and/or helping to organize the 5 year reunion. SIBLINGS Carl Lenocker 94 is in contact with Brian Craig 94 Jim Granroth 80 is in contact with Phil Archibald 80 Joi Deyo 82 wrote: Jami Deyo 73 James Deyo 79 Jeri Deyo 79 Joi Deyo 82 Michael Albert 70 wrote: Michael Albert 70 Diane Albert 71/72 Jim Barbeau 70 wrote: Jim Barbeau 70 Erin Barbeau 75 Julie Barbeau 67 (cousin) Dave Smith 80 is in contact with: Chuck White 80 Fran Sheetz 80 Bing Haas 80 George Champayne 80 Doreen Sugimoto 76 wrote: Dennis Sugimoto 71 Dan Sugimoto 75 Doreen Sugimoto 76 HUNGERSITE Susan La Cornu 73 wrote: "I dont' send out "mass" e-mails very often. I want to share this website with you: http://www.thehungersite.com Just by logging on here each day and clicking one button, you can contribute to feeding the hungry around the world. I have kept this in my e-mail listings and each day I do this. I want to give you the opportunity to do the same." WEB WORK Dawn James 73 is looking for some professional help setting up a website for her business in Sacramento. Please contact Dawn at FIGHTSFAT@aol.com if you are interested. YAHOO MAIL Over the past weekend I discovered you can set up your Yahoo mail account so that you can access it from any POP3 mail software. I happen to use Outlook Express but this should also work with Eudora, etc. I believe someone mentioned this to me a while back but it didn't make an impression at the time. If you are a Yahoo mail user, this allows you to read and write your yahoo mail offline. In addition, it's much faster to process mail with software running on your PC as opposed to Yahoo's web browser interface. And you can use the address book in your email software. And if you're not at your PC, you can still check your yahoo mail from any browser. In order to enable this feature, you must login to yahoo mail, then go to "Options" and "Pop Access and Forwarding". You must sign up for Yahoo Delivers, which means you'll get some special offers from Yahoo occasionally. Once you do this, Yahoo will send you instructions for accessing your yahoo mail. Note that if you want to leave your email on the Yahoo server so it's still accessible from your browser, set up your yahoo email account to "leave your mail on the server". Otherwise, your email software will download ALL the messages you have in your Yahoo inbox to your PC. This is what happened to me. If you want to combine the advantages of web-based email and your PC-based email software, I recommended getting a hotmail email address. Outlook Express can be set up to read hotmail and it's well integrated and works better than having Outlook Express read yahoo mail. STORE Many thanks to those of you have used linked to eToys.com in the past. As of April 1, however, eToys has eliminated the commission on affiliate purchases. However, they are paying a bonus of $10 for each new customer. The Encina store is now an affiliate of the popular buy.com website. If you purchase from buy.com, please link to the Encina Store, which gets as much as an 8% commission depending on the store. buy.com is one of my favorite stores as they have amazing low prices on computer gear. Highly recommended. I've signed up the Encina website with the carsdirect.com website and I've applied to the carorder.com website. Assuming I get approved by carorder.com, I plan to order a Honda minivan from them. You place your order, give them a deposit and they deliver the car to your door (in theory). I'll let you know how my car buying experience on the internet turns out. And the Encina website will receive a minimum of $100 for every car purchase linked to the Encina store. PHOTOS Here's an excerpt from Walter Mossberg's column in the Wall Street Journal today. Amazingly enough, ofoto.com will develop and return your negatives for free, hoping that you will use them to print your pictures. And snapfish.com goes one better. They will develop and print your negatives for free! I've signed up for all three of these services. "PRINTING DIGITAL PHOTOS: You can print digital photos on a printer, but even good ones require special paper and some tweaking to make their prints look professional. You can avoid the whole issue by going to one of several Web sites that let you upload your images and order professional prints, which then are sent to you via regular mail. The two Web sites that I have visited briefly are Ofoto (www.ofoto.com) and Shutterfly (www.shutterfly.com). Both have extensive features and much cheaper prices for prints than regular photo processors charge. Both sites offer 50 free snapshot-size prints free, if you sign up this month. Both charge 49 cents thereafter for snapshots, 99 cents for 5x7 prints and $2.99 for 8x10 prints. Both offer free prints to friends and family members, in the hopes they'll sign up, too. Ofoto has the edge in ease of use, in my view, because it includes free software that lets you view, edit and upload digital images from your PC faster and better than a Web browser can do it. A third site, Snapfish (www.snapfish.com), is aimed at people with regular film cameras. It provides basic services free of charge: free snapshot-size prints and free film processing on every roll. It returns the negatives after scanning them into its Web site, where you and those you allow, can view them. Of course, Snapfish is hoping you or your friends will order more prints, enlargements, and even mouse pads and mugs with the photos on them. Snapfish also allows you to upload digital images. Ofoto also now processes regular film for free, and posts the images to its Web site, but Ofoto doesn't print them for free." MUSIC I thought this Stewart Alsop column about the music business might be of interest, given the number of musically inclined Encina alumni. "Bye-Bye, Music Business Combine one storage device and one nifty piece of freeware, and what do you get? Free music--and the end of the recording industry as we know it. I'm feeling grumpy. So even though I was going to try to be polite about the subject of this column, screw it: The music business as we know it today is hosed. I'm a funny guy to be saying this, given that I've invested a few million dollars of my firm's capital in fledgling companies in the music industry. But that's being a venture capitalist: We see opportunity when the status quo is challenged. If I were a music-biz exec, on the other hand, I'd be singing the blues. (And sending VCs my resume.) Since December, I've led three investments in this space. But only last weekend did I realize just what an earthquake has struck. That's when I did two things: First, I bought a mind-blowing product called the Compressor Personal Jukebox. Second, I started to look at investing in yet another music-related company, Napster. Put these two together, and you can see just how close the music business is to a total revolution. I bought the Compressor Personal Jukebox from a mail-order catalog. I recently paid Hammacher Schlemmer $750 (toys are deductible in my business!) for this groundbreaking product, made by a Korean firm called Hytek Manufacturing. It seems very basic: a 4.6-gigabyte hard disk in a small portable box, with USB port and headphone jack. Run a cable from your PC into the USB port, pop an audio CD into your PC's CD-ROM drive, and the Compressor's software copies the music onto its hard drive. You can store up to 80 hours of music. That's around 100 CDs, which is about all the CDs that my wife, Charlotte, and I own. The Compressor's rechargeable battery lasts for ten hours, and its software is far easier to use than the software Sony supplies with its product, the Music Clip. Let me be clear: You can copy an entire CD collection onto a single device that fits in a jacket pocket and weighs less than a pound, so you can wander around all day with headphones listening to that collection. Two companies make these devices (check out www.musiccompressor.com and www.pjbox.com), and both got the basic design from Compaq! Yet neither Compaq nor any of the major consumer-electronics companies has introduced a product based on this design; instead, only these no-name Korean firms have delivered. (Combine this with the inconvenience of Sony's Music Clip and Music Stick Walkman, and it's clear the leading consumer-products companies still don't understand how the industry is changing.) Shortly after I found the Jukebox, I was introduced to Napster as a possible company for my firm to invest in (other VCs are also looking at it). Here's my basic take: Now you don't ever need to buy another CD. Just collect music free with Napster, copy it onto the Personal Jukebox, and listen to any music you want whenever and wherever you want. And for now, all that's free. Napster lets you find and copy to your hard disk virtually any song, copyrighted or not. When you register at www.napster.com, you download a program that finds the music on your hard disk and publishes information about that music in a directory on the Napster Website. It does that for every Napster user; there are now millions. When you start Napster up, it tells you what music is available from other people connected live to the Net at that time, and lets you go get the stuff you want from their hard drives. Some people worry that this might create a security problem. I'm not that concerned-- over the past two weeks, I've downloaded more than 100 songs from artists like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Santana--even Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." It helps that I have a DSL line into my house, so song files of three to five megabytes download in a few minutes. Copying songs over a modem would get tedious. IT people at major universities are trying to filter Napster out, because students copying files from one hard disk to another are bringing the campus networks to their knees. Now, I'm an old guy--all of 48--but it was easy for me to figure out how to get songs from Napster into my Personal Jukebox. And that's when it became clear that the future of music has changed forever. Napster turns what was once a relatively expensive product into a completely free service. That may not last--the Recording Industry Association of America has already sued Napster. But Pandora's box is open. I may still buy regular old audio CDs, especially cool compilations. I may still go to concerts and events. My kids may still buy merchandise by their favorite artists. But even if I have to pay for a service like Napster's, I know that this, combined with devices like the Personal Jukebox, is the future of music. In fact, any fool who looks at the facts can tell that this business will be completely restructured over the next few years. Maybe that's why I'm grumpy, because I feel like a fool for taking so long to get that." WHAT'S NEW 3/15/00: Guy Chaffin 81 3/14/00: Penelope Webb 92, Michael Hair 76 update, Jenifer Connell 76/bio, Whitney Blankenship 70, Fred Herman 70, Ronald Morgan 70, Tim Huetter 73, Lynn Bytell 70, Linda Sorenson 70, Scott Gaylord 65 update, Michael Albert 70, Diane Albert 71/72, Pamela Deason 70, Ron Bettencourt 77, Chuck White 80, Fran Sheetz 80, Bing Haas 80, George Champagne 80 3/12/00: Robert Bjorklund 80, Kim Bettencourt 81 bio, Becky Pires 80/bio, Jim Granroth 80/bio, Phil Archibald 80, Joi Deyo 82, Jami Deyo 73, Brian Craig 94 3/11/00: Bob Bell 80, Kevin Clark 80, Sue Campbell 70, Scott Campbell 79, Tim Haeling 78, Amy Zausch 94, Carl Lenocker 94/bio update, Brian Craig 94 update, Chris Komlodi 90, Chris Cavner 92, Charles Frank Yanez 93 Class of 1970: added group picture from 20th reunion 3/8/00: Linh Vuong 94 update, Tom Parks 70, Mike Shower 69, Celeste Woo 73/74, Lori Wagner 80, Skip Campbell 80, Heather Martin 92 3/7/00: Cynthia Connell 73/bio, Jenifer Connell 76, Debi Connell 71, Brenda Horsley 90 update, John Joseph 65 update For those of you going to the Alumni party on Saturday, have a great time! Be sure and take pictures and send them to me for the website... Harlan Lau '73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com