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Credits

• David Botterill - who conceived the idea for decking out a crazy old truck in NetBeans graphics and using a GPS. He wrote all of the mapping and geocoding stuff that makes this site as cool as it is (it is cool, right?).
• Jon Locke - whom I had my first "startup" with when we were 13 or so. His Wicket web framework is what a web framework should be, and makes writing web apps as simple as it should be.
• Robert Lipe - who provided invaluable help getting what we needed out of gpsbabel to make the whole thing work.
• Roman Strobl - for his inimitable blogging.
• Judith Lilienfeld - my manager extraordinare (if she can deal with me, she's got to be extraordinary!), for not deciding we were all crazy (or deciding we were but that was okay).
• Rick Ross and his Merry Band - at dzone.com who have graciously sprung for pizza and beer for the folks I visit.
• Laura Whitton - my brilliant Stanford linguistics-grad-student roommate.
• Daniel Ezra Johnson - another brilliant Stanford linguistics grad student (excuuuuse me, PhD...) who provided rescue when the hot wire to the battery melted in the parking lot of the Redwood City DMV.
• Jack Catchpoole - NetBeans webmaster extraordinaire, who scrambled the fighters and worked a weekend to get this thing running on port 80 (it is on port 80, right?). And yes, the linked page is a joke...this is the real one.
• Mo - at Auto Service in Vallejo, CA, who stayed at work after hours twice to help get the NetBeans Mobile mobile.
• Leo at A1 Auto in East Palo Alto, CA - the place may look like a dump, but it is populated by very smart people who do very good work. Thanks to them, I have not only front brakes, but rear brakes too.
• Peter Zavadsky - my former office-mate in Prague and brilliant partner-in-crime along with Dafe Simonek and Marek Slama when we rewrote the NetBeans window system for 3.6, who generously volunteered his time to help put big vinyl graphics on a big vehicle.
  While we're at it, Peter deserves support in his struggle with U.S. immigration law. We sat back-to-back in an office when he was doing all of the work (and it is not simple) to get his green card. He asked lots of questions about life in the U.S. and I answered as best I could. I never imagined he would have this kind of stupid problem. It's obscene that his wife can't join him in the U.S. - he's been here longer than I have! Visit his web site, sign the petition and give him your support - he's a good guy.
• The folks at All American Muffler in Redwood City, CA - who were willing to cut a hole in the floor and drill the frame, so that I could have a driver's seat that is actually attached to something.
• Tony - my neighbor across the street in East Palo Alto, who lent tools and help with wiring and painting, and his adorable 3-year-old granddaughter who helped as well.
• Mara and Neil Priestly - Who own the place I'm likely to end up living in, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and whose generous offer provided the impetus for doing any of this.
• Trung, Jarda, Hrebejk, Lenka and all of my colleagues in Prague - who, even though I haven't lived there in almost three years, are my second family.
• Steve and Anka Adler - my bandmate from college, whom I've had so much fun recording music with in my visits to the east coast that it made getting out of California seem worth doing.
• Kevin Noel Sharpe - my friend since fifth grade, whose gracious appearance (and fabulous drumming) at a recording session in January reminded me of how many people I've been missing back home.
• Zaheda Bhorat - my former colleague, who also volunteered her time with the signage.
• Charlie Hunt - who joined me for an unforgettable 21-days-in-Brazil-17-airplane-boarding-cards teaching tour, and who is holding my real laptop in Chicago, back from repair, until I get there.
• Evan Adams - whose basement has housed my furniture for longer than I ever intended.
• Kurt Barbuscio - My college roommate, who would be my copilot if there were more than one seat.