Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

Kelly Smith of Curious Office on the internet, design and photography.

Month: September, 2007

How you can compete in crowded markets

It’s easy. Just look at how Kevin Rose plays the game over at Pownce.

Congrats Sounders!

The Seattle Sounders have won their fourth USL soccer championship on Saturday night. The Sounders now have the most titles in USL-1 history. What a fitting way to end the season as Adrian prepares to bring a major league soccer team to Seattle in 2009.

Spruce up that Mac laptop

How cool is this? Put real wood or other funky designs on your Mac laptop.

What do you do when you are tired of the tech scene?

Why not make a ski movie? My friend Darren Grimstead over at thePlatform let us know what his buddy Rich Corbett has been up to over the last year. Trailer looks pretty good.

Who has the most traffic for Seattle start-ups?

Just check out my updated list over at Curious Office.

Tractor Trailer

I originally took this picture in Antigua down in the Caribbean. Then Photoshop got a hold of it. Oh my.

Some old pics from a past Carribean cruise

Somehow I had forgotten to post these to flickr…which powers my photo gallery on this site. I just love this guy.

Adobe Air

Adobe AIR, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. Some very popular applications, such as Pownce, use it for their cool app and I was interested to see what else was out there [...]

Where I’m going to eat tonight

Tavolata. Never been. In Belltown district. Looks good.

A little ocean trivia for you

Watching National Geographic introduced me to a few little known tidbits about the ocean.
For example, did you know that 70% of the world’s volcanoes are in fact not seen? They sit below the ocean’s surface. 90% of all volcanic activity on Earth occurs in the ocean.
Nearly 400 people in total have been sent to space. [...]