Unlike Sun's headquarters, which carry a research-heavy, university feel (the asylum was built in 1885), more stereotypical Silicon Valley wealth can be found searching for the techie buildings of Google, Intel, Yahoo!, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Silicon Graphics, Apple and Oracle. The words 'Hewlett-Packard headquarters'actually return hundreds of links: tours, blogs, images, facts and essays, for the HP Garage where Silicon Valley was born in 1939.

"I don't like Silicon Valley," writes Bray, in the email that precedes the arrival of his Google-mapped home. When Bray was approached to move to Silicon Valley in 2004, Sun needed a new computing vision for the arrival of Web 2.0, knowing Ajax would add even more fuel to the XML-generated explosion of Web feeds, commonly referred to as RSS feeds. The publishing world had just discovered that, not only is their universe expanding, that expansion is still speeding up