Archives / November, 2007

Smokestack

There’s a tall smokestack near my house in Boulder that is part of the Boulder Community Hospital’s Mapleton Center.  Though it is a bit of an eyesore, happily I’ve never seen smoke coming from it, so I assume it isn’t actually in use.  I walked by it the other day and took a few shots…

Twitter and TinyURL Symbiosis

Just a random thought: I’ll bet TinyURL has seen a spike in usage since Twitter came along. I’m seeing a ton of tweets with TinyURLs embedded in them. If anyone reading knows anyone associated with TinyURL, feel free to comment on my idle speculation… Update: well, I just went to the TinyURL site (to make…

Two Megamics!

Just a quick tout for one of my companies: Akustica. Today they announced they’ve shipped their two millionth microphone. It took fifteen months from shipping their very first production microphone to reach the one million mark, and a scant three months to reach the second million. Congrats to Akustica on their very steep (and getting…

Autumn Leaves

One of the benefits of living in an historic neighborhood (no, the anti-property rights Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board is not one of them) is the mature trees that line the streets.  I took a quick snapshot this morning of the beautiful autumn colors on the block between 4th and 5th on Pine Street. Technorati Tags:…