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Kawasaki interview with MySQL’s Mickos

Guy Kawasaki has a good interview with Mickos here. My favorite: Question: Have you had any kind of concerns that MySQL will be run like a “big company”? Answer: I had those concerns even when we were a small startup! Complacency and arrogance can creep in without your noticing in any sort of organisation. To avoid it, we have taken some specific steps. We have released our software under the...

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Vonage = Clueless

This is turning out to be my rant on crappy service by companies week. Today, after almost four years or mediocre voice quality, I finally decided to ditch my Vonage line. As required by them, I called in to cancel my account. For 20 mins. straight, despite my increasingly urgent pleas to just cancel my account, the rep kept insisting that I stay for two additional months free and they would have a tech...

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Kids and electronics

I want my daughters to grow up having good fundamental knowledge of things like basic electronics, plumbing, mechanical stuff, construction etc. I recognize that more and more analog things will be digital in her future, but it never hurts to know the basics. To that end, I recently bought Gia, my three-year-old, her first electronics project kit. I researched this quite a bit — I did not want...

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Video coming to Flickr

Dan Farber’s report that Flickr will support video in beta next month is welcome news. As I commented on Dan’s blog, it is a big pain to share photos and videos of the same event (example: vacation photos) using different sites. If Flickr does a good job of making the user experience so it is context-sensitive according to the type of media (i.e. photo or video), then I would move my videos...

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Stupid Comcast

Tried to log into my Comcast account to check my account this weekend and discovered that I had forgotten my password. No problem…click the forgot password link and go through the email password reset drill, right? Wrong! Comcast’s site suggests re-creating my user profile instead. And when I do try to re-create the profile, it complains that the profile already exists. Well, DUH! I cannot...