Silicon Valley Musings

I am currently pursuing a multiple subject teaching credential at Santa Clara University. The first course, EDUC 306, is entitled Immersion Experience: Human Service in Diverse Settings.
Over the last week, we reflected on several questions. I have captured my responses to them here.
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What does it mean to learn something?
Learning is discovery. There are a […]

I saw this ad in eWeek and couldn’t resist the verbal and visual pun.

Ken Norton finds the use of sliders in Yahoo’s new Mindset offering intolerable.
Even more intolerable is the introduction of “roll over” ads on some My Yahoo pages. Roll over ads are essentially popups created by Java script instead of HTML popup windows.
They share the annoying characteristics of popups, namely they appear without permission and obscure […]

SunPower’s solar panels already produce up to 50 percent more power on a typical residential roof compared with conventional panels,? said Tom Werner, SunPower’s CEO. “Our new line of high-efficiency inverters further enhances the performance advantage of SunPower’s solar systems and allows us to offer our customers an unmatched 10-year standard product warranty on the […]

A friend that works at Yahoo mentioned that the SBC Yahoo web pages don’t evolve as quickly as the rest of the Yahoo sites. Most notably My Yahoo and SBC My Yahoo are quite different.
The recent upgrade to Yahoo News prompted me to reactivate my original Yahoo ID. I also ponied up the $19.95 annual […]