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• Cox Tech Hell, Day 21

  July 8, 2009 in VRM, infrastructure, problems

  I’ve left two messages with the very nice senior tech guy who came out on Monday and confirmed the problem without solving it. Another guy came yesterday when the problem wasn’t happening, and gave …

• A good man is hard to lose

  July 7, 2009 in News, Photography, Places, Quote, VRM

  I remember talking to Nick Givotovsky the first time at an early Internet Identity Workshop, when he pulled me aside to share some ideas, and immediately stripped my gears. The …

• Connectivity hell, Part III

  July 6, 2009 in Business, Places, infrastructure, problems

  To their credit, fixing my problem has become a higher priority with Cox. A senior guy came out today, confirmed the problem (intermittent high latencies and packet losses), made some changes that adjusted voltages at …

• Miss Taken Identity

  July 6, 2009 in Blogging, Fun, Quote

  Funny… Thanks to a quote in a caption (”We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.” from this blog post here) — sans …

• The Trillion-Dollar Market

  July 4, 2009 in Business, VRM, infrastructure

  Forget financial markets for a minute, and think about the directions money moves in retail markets. While much of it moves up and down the supply chains, the first source is customers. The money that …