As reported earlier this week, eBay announced it is buying StubHub for $310m. As a (small) individual investor in StubHub, I’m delighted by this outcome. StubHub is a great success story: the company was started by Stanford MBA students Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr in the dark days of the tech downturn and was able…
This news is a bit stale, but I’ve not been posting to my blog over the holidays. I’m waiting for snow tires to be put on my car (about time given the two blizzards that have hit Colorado in the last few weeks) so I had some time to kill. Time for a blog post….
I was on the road for a few weeks after posting my gripe about Apple losing my new MacBook Pro, so I neglected to post a follow up. That post wound up on the front page of Digg, and I received many comments, words of sympathy and stories from folks who have had similar experiences…
Just thought I’d follow up on my ongoing (and now totally unbelievable) saga with trying to get my brand new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo computer repaired. As I mentioned in a previous post, my new Mac had a serious problem with the audio system — the speakers output nothing but loud static whenever I…
My partner Brad Feld wrote a post today crediting me with coining the term Intelligence Amplification. While I’d like to take credit for it, all I can take credit for is applying the term to what Brad had previously called Dynamics of Information. After Brad asked for a better name, I suggested Intelligence Amplification, a…
I’m a huge fan of the Macintosh, the iPod and Apple’s incredible design sensibilities and well-integrated products. I’ve probably owned at least a dozen macs in my life, starting in 1989 with a 512K Mac SE with a 20 meg hard drive. In general I appreciate Apple’s products almost as much as Mark Morford at…
One of my special abilities (my wife disbelieves and mocks this claim of mine) is that I have knack for looking at the clock when it is 11:11. It happens to me several times each week. Imagine my pleasure when I glanced at the clock today at 11:11 and realized today is November 11th. I’ll…
Well, by now you’ve probably heard of placeshifting, the functionality enabled by the Slingbox and other devices that allows you to stream your home television signal to a PC or phone anywhere in the world. But Sling Media has now gone one step further: Stadiumshifting. While I’m not much of sports fan myself, I love…
Early this morning, while downloading a software update onto our Mac Mini, I mentioned to Katherine that our internet connection seemed to be running rather slowly. Several hours later, Quinn and I were hiking above Boulder on the Red Rocks trail, and he turned to me and said, “the little baby computer was downloading too…
After 17 years living in the California Bay Area, I forgot how lovely Fall can be. Boulder is awash in Autumn’s colors and it is beautiful. This shot is taken from our back deck. Nice to know that when the leaves have gone, there will still be the backdrop of evergreens on the mountains. I…