Monthly Archives: June 2007

Metro Music in the Other Park Concert with The Tubes

My ears are still ringing a little, but I’m glad I went to the free KFOX 98.5 Metro Music in the Other Park concert in downtown San Jose tonite. The Tubes gave a really good performance. Fee Waybill still has … Continue reading

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Friendster Says I have “A Maximum Number of Friends”

According to Friendster you can have too many friends. But they’ve been saying that since I had 745, and now I have 1000 even. Recently they’ve also made the default user search query google (see screen capture) instead of in … Continue reading

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Parallax BASIC Stamp Kit

I have always wanted to play with the BASIC Stamp electronics kit, and Fry’s had the Parallax Discovery Kit #27807 on sale for $20 off, so I bought that plus a GPS module #28146 and an ultrasonic sensor module #28015. … Continue reading

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NASA’s First Launch of the Year – June 8

So NASA launched the first Space Shuttle of the year today. Today is June 8. I guess NASA is trying to parody Groundhog Day or something. Except they’re 4 months late. NASA, here’s a suggestion: next time budget for the … Continue reading

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WhereCamp 2007

This weekend I went to the free WhereCamp unconference in the Yahoo! Sunnyvale cafeteria/conference center. A lot of attendees arrived for the Where 2.0 conference last week, stayed through the Google Dev Conference and now WhereCamp. All things geolocation were … Continue reading

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