If you are ever at the MicrosoftSF store in the Metreon and decide to use the postcard kiosks, pick one with an external camera, not the mini Vaios with the built-in cameras. You’ll get much higher quality photos. (Care enough to send the very best. :-)

The Microsoft store was more like a computer store than I expected (now you say “It’s Microsoft, what did you expect?”). Salon’s article, published exactly a year ago, led me to picture it as a gene-splicing experiment between a Microsoft company store and a Pottery Barn. But the experience to me was more akin to a colorful stationery store welded onto the front of a software store, with postcard kiosks taking the place of greeting card racks.