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Once, in another life, I was a tech founder. It was the late nineties, when the Web was young, and everyone was trying to cash in on the dot-com boom. In college, two of my dorm mates and I discovered that we’d each started an Internet company in high school, and we merged them to form a single, teen-age megacorp. For around six hundred dollars a month, we rented office space in the basement of a building in town. We made Web sites and software for an early dating service, an insurance-claims-processing firm, and an online store where customers could “bargain” with a cartoon avatar for overstock goods. I lived large, spending the money I made on tuition, food, and a stereo.
remains closed due to heavy snow. near the summit of mt. hamilton, gusty winds blew the snow nearly horizontally. the flakes were wet but easily sticking to the road. the snow forced caltrans to close this stretch of highway 130 from grant ranch county park in santa clara county all the way to the stanislaus county line. it s really bad storm. snow is bad. reporter: steve had no choice but to head up mt. hamilton road because he had to work. tell us what you re seeing up there. pretty much nothing, all white. can t see nothing. i had to turn around and come back and just head out back. reporter: have you ever seen it that bad before up there? no, it s really bad. reporter: we are just below 4200 feet. even today we are getting heavy snow and wind. the south bay wasn t the only place hit hard by snow today. these pictures are from mount saint helena in napa county. other north bay counties including mendocino and lake counties were hit especially hard with several