Welcome to
Wes Kashiwagi's online home in San Jose, CA

My web server and I live in lovely San Jose, California, the third-largest and first-dullest city in California.™

Wes is short for Wesley, which comes from my dad's Japanese United Methodist upbringing. Kashiwagi is Japanese and translates as "oak tree," although I'm a terminal branch I'm afraid.

I know this site's design is starting to show its age since it was built in 1999. Be gentle.

Professional Life

I work in digital marketing, which is probably why you found my site in the first place.

A small sampling of websites I designed and built...

Business
Azingo.com
Pillardata.com
Grand Prairie Texas Tourism
Anthony Buzak Furniture

San Jose LGBT Sites
Renegades Bar San Jose
Macs Club San Jose

Pleasure
Wes 330cic One-hour Website
Monterey's Gay Website

Webguild Design Contest
I won, and the good people who run the Webguild in San Jose implemented my design, but it's since been replaced by an ugly blog of some sort, just as the DeFrank Center site has. Death to WordPress.

Kandura Mania - Popularizing kanduras in the US
           

Eats

Restaurant reviews
San Jose, San Francisco, Hyderabad, etc. Bringing you my unbridled, biased, and often typo-ridden opinions since 1997.

NOTE: San Jose Vietnamese restaurants are far better than those in San Francisco. More choice, more regional variety, and 50% cheaper.

Vietnamese Beef Seven Ways Dinner
Yes, we ate it all just between the two of us. Read about all beef seven way courses. (FYI: I repeated this in January, 2009 and it was still fun to do.)

Kaiseki Dinner at Hatcho Restaurant in Santa Clara
So authentic, I have no idea what it is or how to eat it. See what happens to two sanseis who finally splurge on a kaiseki dinner>

Play

What I'm up to now

Sacramento Delta King Paddlewheeler Hotel
Notes and photos of our weekend on a Sacramento landmark

Wes' Biased Ranking of Gay Bars
San Jose gay bars
Chicago gay bars
Seattle gay bars
Sacramento gay bars
Montreal gay bars

Work

My resume

What I Do
I'm a Director of Digital Marketing, usually of the online/web variety. I've also been doing some mobile application and widget UI/UE design, which has been a great experience and a cheap way to see the world.

Spartan-Keyes Neighborhood
I moved into the Spartan-Keyes neighborhood in San Jose in 2004. Spartan-Keyes is home to some of the best Vietnamese, Salvadorian, and Mexican restaurants, pho joints, sandwich shops, pupusarias, taquerias, and grocery stores in town. It also has a thumping bass, thanks to the kids next door.



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