Last night, Adrienne and I went to see Whose Line Is It Anyway: An Evening with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
At the end, they did a thing where they walked around, blindfolded and barefoot with one hundred live mousetraps on the stage. Funny stuff.
Excellent show!
I snapped this picture of Kaliya Hamlin from SpikeSource at the MySQL User Conference. I don’t think I’ve seen quite so many stickers on a single laptop… she obviously loves Open Source.
That’s one of the things I like about Open Source… many people involved in it don’t just use it, they love it.
I noticed recently on Gmail that the login page has changed ever-so-slightly. They are now officially calling the Gmail login a “Google Account”, and it works for more than just Gmail. There is currently a small list of services usable with a Google Account.
We live in interesting times…
Yesterday, at the MySQL User Conference 2005, I hosted a Birds of a Feather session on MySQL and GIS. I spoke with a couple of guys from Trakm8, a company from Dorset, England. They have a very fascinating system built on top of MySQL’s GIS support and some of their custom tracking devices. They showed me their software and we discussed their platform. I gave them some (hopefully useful) tips regarding MySQL.
Their system includes an embedded PC, a GPS, and a GPRS modem (cell phone), and given some power is able to track a vehicle (or anything else) anywhere within coverage of the cell network. This is exactly the kind of people and projects/products I was hoping to get at my BoF session. As an aside, there’s a funny BBC story on Trakm8 that’s definitely worth a read and a chuckle. Awesome work guys, and good luck!
Today we drove up Mt. Hamilton to Lick Observatory, which was incredibly cool. There are around 10 telescopes at the top of the mountain, the largest of which is a 120-inch reflecting telescope. They have a bunch of summer programs and concerts and such at the observatory, which Adrienne and I will definitely attend.
After visiting the telescope, we drove over the Diablo Range mountains out to Interstate 5 and back home through Gilroy. Through the Diablo Range there are some incredible hills and rocks and valleys. There were quite a few places for sale, and Adrienne and I spotted one that was 314 acres for $444,000 … amazing. (No, we didn’t really buy it… yet, mwaahaha!)
Jeremy Cole 