One of our clients hit by a Tornado on Thursday

Friday, May 23, 2008

While we had hail and big winds here in Boulder yesterday, one of our clients, Cross Country Warehouse, had their center hit by a tornado yesterday.

Everyone is okay... nobody was injured, but it's a bit of a mess to clean up, and they're not sure when they will be back up and shipping out products.

Cross Country is one of the warehouse / fullfilment houses that our ecommerce system ties directly into, and we've built many sites for their clients as well.

The good news is that we'll be still able to take orders via the web, and when they are back up and running, we can send them a batch file of past orders and they'll be all set.

Crazy!

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VCWear - great site

Thursday, May 22, 2008

It's so nice that after not going the VC route, to see a site devoted to t-shirts for VCs that sort of tongue in check makes fun of it all.

I think my favorites are:
* Your mom is not a valid test market
* Your idea made me puke a little in my mouth
* No, Not Even Powerpoint Can Save You Now

The site is: www.VCwear.com

A fun spin on the whole VC industry.

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South Boulder Community Talk

Monday, May 12, 2008

It's so wonderful that our small community in South Boulder (known as SoBo) was started by a friend, Liz Ryan, who always seems to be on the cutting edge of helping people get together.

It's meant for South Boulder (CO) residents and friends -- sharing everything from neighborhood news to recommendations, for-sale items, events, introductions, how-to questions and answers and more.

View the SoBo neighborhood group.

It's a great idea... and one that every neighborhood should have!

Here's a photo, taken right after a big snowstorm, that's at the top of the street:

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My 3.5 Year Old Has Her First Laptop

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

On Saturday, my 3.5 year old daughter got her first laptop. It arrived by UPS, sent by her Zadie (grandfather). It's a small little laptop that is part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project at www.Laptop.org.

It's still not a final verison of the product that will be released around the world, but it's still a very impressive piece of technology. It uses 5% of the power consumption my PC laptop uses, and has a screen that rotates around 360 degrees. It can be used in direct sunlight, and has a video camera and microphone for recording audio, photos and video. It can connect to the web, and has some basic stripped down programs like word processing, painting and other simple games.

Right now her favorite is the number guessing game. It comes loaded to have someone guess a number between 1-100, but I've changed it so that it's using numbers between 1-10. If the number you choose is too high or too low, it tells you so that you can continue guessing.

Pretty cool for a $188 machine that runs Linux and a new display layer called Sugar. It still has a few bugs, but it's a pretty impressive little laptop. Crazy stuff...

Labels: Technology for Kids

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Homer Animation

Ryan is too lazy to post this so I am... If you like the Simpsons check this out:

Homer Simpson Animation

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My new favorite site

Friday, May 2, 2008

A potential client just told me about this site... it's a place that lists all of the phobias: http://phobialist.com/

A few of my favorites:
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives

... and my all time favorite:
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13

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