Silicon Valley Musings

We recently spent our spring break on holiday on Maui.
We joined Seafire Charters to visit Molokini on a snorkeling tour. The Seafire departs from the Kihei boat ramp. This is quite convenient if you are staying in Kihei or Wailea.
They have two different tours; we took the three-hour tour, which started at 7:30am.
The Seafire […]

I have been playing with Yahoo 360. Here are a couple of my suggestions for 360 enhancements.
Dictating Mobile Phone Weblog Entries
Yahoo 360 users can email photos from their camera phones to their Weblogs (though I had trouble with this because pictures sent from my phone come from a Sprint provided email address).
I have always wanted […]

I have been reading John McDowall’s Weblog Fast Takes for a while. John and I worked together at Teknekron/TIBCO and he is now the CTO of InStorecard.
He has been writing some interesting things about SOAP, REST, and the role of simplicity in Web Services. I sent him this comment about his recent entry, Simplicity Rules!:
“Simplicity […]

Using the satellite images in Google Maps you can easily track environmental damage in your neighborhood.
Here are some pictures of the Kaiser/Hanson Cement Plant in Cupertino. Notice how the mined area is almost as big the very popular Rancho San Antonio Park.
You can read more about Kaiser/Hanson Cement at the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Website.