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• 10 lessons from a failed startup » VentureBeat

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• Alaska Fights a Tourism Cold Front – WSJ.com
  (tags: travel alaska)

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• Breathtaking – Design strategy
  Leaked brand strategy for Pepsi.
  (tags: design pepsi branding)
• What San Francisco/Silicon Valley can learn from the Twittering company: Zappos « Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm
  Good quick look at the Zappos culture.
  (tags: marketing twitter zappos customerservice)

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• Apple: Only good. Dell: Poor and very poor – Apple 2.0
  (tags: customservice)

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Thursday afternoon (after travelling to Boston on Tuesday and DC on Wednesday) Ming and I flew to Anchorage, Alaska.

The first surprise was how full the flight is (and there were two more flights after ours!) The second was that there is a time change and it was still light out (hello, east coast to the furthest west coast in less than 24 hrs). The third was that our skis arrived before we even got to baggage claim (this never happens). The fourth was these kangaroos which arrived as we were waiting for our gear:

The fifth was that we were able to walk up and get a rental car for $50 for the weekend from Budget (other car places were up to $50/day!)

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• Etsy :: Design2009 :: product design & concept
  Wow, love these pipe lights. (via ming)
  (tags: design furniture lighting)

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Since my quick video of a Olive 8 condo unit was so popular I impulse bought a Flip Video MinoHD from Amazon. I ordered it Wednesday night and got it Thursday for only $3.99 shipping. Gotta love Amazon Prime.

I took it up to Steven’s Pass this past weekend but my videography skills were clearly lacking:

My first impressions are that the video is high quality when video on a computer and the interface is dead simple. However, the USB connector seems a little flimsy (it doesn’t use a cord, instead the USB connector hides in the device and then pops out when needed).

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I’m blogging this for all the folks in the future who did the same stupid thing I did.

The other weekend I messed up my TCP/IP stack trying to install an iPhone update. Turns out the iPhone updater conflicts if you have ever installed at AT&T wireless card.

What happened was that my iPhone was getting stuck in the Verifying iPhone Software phase while updating my firmware. In an attempt to fix the problem I followed the recommendation on this discussion board only to accidentally delete the wrong reg key. Instead of deleting one key/value pair I deleted:

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

Whoops! It turns out there is lots of important info stored there.

To solve the problem so I didn’t have to sheepishly go to my IT folks and tell them what I did I:

1. Tried to do a system point restore only to have all my restore attempts fail. Bizarro and quite unfortunate.
2. Spent countless hours doing things that didn’t fix the problem like resetting my TCP/IP stack with netsh or running ipconfig which told me “The system cannot find the file specified.” (Which definitely puzzled me).
3. Removed each network interface device in Device Manager and then rebooted. Windows would then re-install the driver on reboot.
4. Re-installed the TCP/IP driver for each network interface device:
   1. Go to Network Connections
   2. Right click on the network connection you want to work on
   3. Click properties
   4. Click install
   5. Click protocol
   6. Click have disk
   7. For the directory put c:\windows\inf
   8. Pick Microsoft as your manufacturer
   9. Pick Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
   10. Manually updated my machine name in the registry
   11. Hostname and NV Hostname under parameters
       April 06th 2009 Posted to Random

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• VendrTV
  Video reviews of street vendors. John, this site is for you.
  (tags: food)

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