A geeky farewell to Boulder tech community
Before a caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly, it must first go through a lengthy development stage that's comparatively gross. It's a whole lotta larvae, if you know what I...
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Tech event tips
A s it expands like an inflatable raft, the Boulder tech community attracts a lot of generalizations from the public. "They smell too strongly of Cheetos." "They spend too much...
Nerd Among the Herd: Use your pet for web dominance
Boulder is known as a place where a person's dog says as much about them as their bumper stickers do. Your yellow lab is a window into the recesses of...
Nerd Among the Herd: Stop the scary behavior INR and online, Boulder
T hough I'm a big fan of the horror movie genre, I am seldom truly horrified. I've seen summer campers cut in half, beach-goers dragged into the water by unseen...
Nerd Among the Herd: Robot invasion has begun
N ew words enter my vocabulary all the time. It's the fluid nature of language that led me to select journalism as my college major a billion years ago, so...
Social media users’ guide
I have recently received a few concerned emails from readers who are relatively new to the internet and haven't developed the lacquered, snark-proof shell that the rest of us web...
Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Google+ and everything else: How to be everywhere at once
Because I've lived in Boulder for so many years, and because I spend so much time online, local residents often stop me to chat about web stuff while I'm shuffling...
#Boulder’s best
I joined Twitter on June 8, 2007. After four years and counting, I have observed many things and been appalled at many others. That's because I spend a lot of...
Digitally invasive interviewers: Protect yourself while job hunting
One of the more interesting stories to sashay onto my radar over the past week is the one about the guy who was interviewing for a job, only to have...
Nerd Among the Herd: What if there were no startups in Boulder?
W ith the pending closure of Daddy Bruce's Bar-B-Que, which dispensed meaty goodness in Boulder for more than 30 years before lately succumbing to financial woes, I have begun to...