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OLPC Is Pretty Cool for 1.0
Today, I spent time setting up the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that my father bought as part of the “Buy a Laptop for Child and Get a Laptop Free” program that was offered back in late 2007. I have to say that the laptop is pretty damm cool. It’s running Linux (Fedora 7 from… Read more
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Twitter Technical Problems No Joke
I’m not a huge Twitter fan but have been playing around with their SMS/Twitter/Facebook integration which is pretty cool. I guess all of the blogs about how terrible their infrastructure is seem to be at least pointed in the right direction. They went down this afternoon and I believe are still down. Then it got… Read more
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Oil Prices Keep Going Up! Woo-hoo!
The price of oil per oarrel have reached record levels. Last Friday, the Nymex Crude Future hit $118.52 a barrel. The prices at the pump are acting accordingly. The Safeway down the street from me has 89 octane @ $3.95 a gallon. My first reaction was “Oh crap, this isn’t going to be good for… Read more
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“I Like to Build Things”
This past weekend I was playing golf with some random folks and one of them asked me what I did. I had to think about that for a moment because spewing out some random company doesn’t mean much to people. My response was “I Like to Build Things”. Successful Software Companies High Quality, Award Winning… Read more
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Corporate verses Startup Experience
It’s been over five months since leaving HP and re-joining the ranks of the startups and it has been quite the shift in experiences. The startup experience is something that better fits my speed and style. They are such a great way to learn how to run a business. Also, get ready to get your… Read more
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Twine Time!
Alas, I finally got my beta login into Twine. I can’t wait to give it a whirl. Let’s see what the so called “Web 3.0” has in store for us. I’ll let you know what I find. Read more
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iLike Is Pretty Cool
A friend of mine at work and and I were chatting this morning about the classic problem of discovering new music. Low and behold, Web 2.0 to the rescue! Introducing iLike! iLike proclaims to have the following services. – social music discovery Discover and share playlists, new music that matches your tastes, and concerts by… Read more
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Ebay may sell off Skype (Duh!)
TechCrunch is reporting that Ebay is considering selling off Skype. One word: Duh! Someone get the new CEO a carrot for recognizing the obvious. What the hell were they thinking when they bought Skype in the first place? Read more
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What happened to customer service?
Ever since I took over Support responsibilities at my software startup, I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes for good customer service and support. This past weekend, my wife and I got away and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay. This was our first weekend away since our daughter was born. The Ritz-Carlton… Read more
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Did Techcrunch use my Screenshot?
I pretty sure that TechCrunch snagged my screenshot of the “HP Upline is down”. TechCrunch screenshot: Renato.Mascardo.com Post Screenshot: Com’on! Don’t I get any credit? I spent alot of time resizing my browser to get that right. 🙂 (Just Kidding) Read more
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HP Upline Still Unavailable!
HP Upline has been down since Wednesday 4/16 for me and its still down. The HP Upline team was nice enough to send me this note: Dear HP Upline Service subscriber, On Thursday, April 17th, HP suspended operation of the HP Upline Service. We fully anticipate that suspension of the Upline Service will be temporary… Read more
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HP Upline down for 2 days!
I recently jumped on the online storage band wagon and signed up for HP Upline. My thought process was that “it’s HP, I can trust these guys”. Plus, I could no longer wait for Google to come out with GDrive. Well, I’m 8GB into the 2TB of data and suddenly, the service has been down… Read more
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Simplicity, integration and value
This week’s top Digg item is a story called Google Drive Killer Coming From MIT features a start up out of MIT called Dropbox. Basically, it provides a way to store and share files online. I have say that their offering is pretty compelling, or at least the video of the demo is compelling. Why… Read more
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University of Richmond? Where is that?
On cold days, I wear my University of Richmond sweatshirt that says “Richmond” on the front of it. I would say that most folks in the bay area think that it has something to do with Richmond, CA. No one knows anything about the University of Richmond out here on the west coast except for… Read more
