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 this application. This past weekend, a Slingbox attached to the scoreboard video feed at a non-televised game between Cal’s Golden Bears and Washington State’s Cougars sent the live video of the game from Pulman, WA straight to the big screen on the scoreboard at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, which enabled the rabid Cal fans to gather en masse to watch their team play a game that was not broadcast on any of the networks. More details can be found here. Very cool.

Update: Blake Krikorian (Sling’s CEO and co-founder) took a video of the event and put it up on YouTube. Enjoy.

Technorati Tags: Cal Bears, Football, Placeshifting, Sling Media, Slingbox, Video, Washington State Cougars

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 slowly, so we need to turn it upside down and shake it to fix it.”

It seems to me that Quinn’s strategy to fix our internet speed issues was at least as sophisticated as the approach many of the IT professionals I’ve known might take to solve the problem.

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 will admit, however, to some apprehension about the coming Winter months. Though I lived in Virginia and Colorado as a kid and remember almost enjoying harsh Winter weather, I’ve since grown soft after nearly two decades in the moderate Mediterranean single-season climate of Silicon Valley. Hopefully I’ll relearn to love the cold…

Technorati Tags: Autumn, Boulder, Fall, Leaves