Perhaps she was destined to be a technology writer, because her initials are "TEC," for Tamara Elizabeth Chuang.

She has met Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg three times.

"The first was at the Consumer Electronics Show a few years ago, when he crashed a private interview I was having with a company. Second, at a Mac World convention. I was filing a story on my laptop and he sat down at my table to eat lunch. Third, right here in OC when the DEMO Fall conference was in Huntington Beach. He spoke to me all three times."

"That's cool," she said. "In the tech world, he's a celebrity."