International Polar Year Data Challenge

Given my attempt to run the North Pole Marathon, I’ve gotten involved in a project called International Polar Year. While this is a major worldwide scientific research project that’s

November 3, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

TSA and Ziploc Bags

Finally, some brilliance in the travel quart-size plastic-bag absurdity. At LaGuardia in the US Airways TSA checkpoint. Thanks Wal-Mart and US Airways – you both scored points with me toda

November 3, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Alaska Bears

Having seen a few bears up front and personal (think “20 yards away”), I know how incredibly intense they are. Chris Wand send me this link from a set of [...]

September 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

New Technology Meetup in Boulder/ Denver

Robert Reich from Medium is organizing a Meetup group focused on cool technologies in the Boulder / Denver area. The first event is being hosted at Medium on Tuesday September [...]

August 29, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

North Pole Marathon Sponsor – Pixie Mate

I’ve started to round up sponsors for my North Pole Marathon run. The first one is Pixie Mate, a local Boulder company that makes an awesome specialty drink based on [...]

August 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Colorado Gubernatorial Debate on Technology

The debate between Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates (Bill Ritter and Bob Beauprez) on technology that I’m moderating with Jack Tankersley is coming up on September 8th. Phil Weise

August 21, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Brew At The Denver Zoo

My assistant Kelly spends a few weeks each summer volunteering at the Denver Zoo. I think it’s probably an easier job than dealing with the animals she has to every [...]

August 19, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Net Neutrality and Alaska

A Boulder reader forwarded me an interesting article in eWeek titled The Doctor on the Digital Tundra that talks about how the issue of net neutrality could impact rural Alaska, using [...]

August 18, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Learned About Snowshoes Today

As the reality of agreeing to run a marathon at the North Pole settled in today, I was bombarded by intros from Tom Heinrichs to great cold weather / snow [...]

August 10, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Another Colorado Public Company Disappears

Yesterday Brocade announced that it was acquiring McData for $713 million. McData is another of the long time Colorado storage technology companies – it’s now joining its friend Stor

August 9, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld