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| Friday, February 1, 2002 |
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| | Speaking of Andre, check out what he's doing to drive the conversation about digital identity, with Ping. This is a grass roots effort on his part, but Andre has always been a wild weed. He was a founder of Jabber Inc., and has helped drive a bunch of other topics (and companies) as well. |
| | Like Cluetrain, Ping isn't coming down from some BigCo. It starts with the premise that privacy and identity are both fundamentally personal. Check it out. It's still young. |
It's the metaphor, stupid
Another Cox sucker story
| | For what it's worth, I got much better tech support from Cox than Kelly did, and I'm running OS X too (among other OSes). Of course I waited nearly four days before I talked to a tech who could solve the problem. But at least none of the techs I spoke with tried to scrape the problem off on Apple, or on anybody. |
| | in closing Kelly says this about Cox: |
| | They must change the way they do business with their customers -- before their customers change the companies with which they do business. |
| | A friend just brought over her iMac for some informal tech support. I created a new TCP/IP configuration (not changing the existing dial-up AOL config she already has) set it for DHCP, plugged an Ethernet cable from iMac to hub, and she was on the Net. Then I downloaded an 82 Mb OS 9.2 upgrade file in about a minute. |
| | There simply isn't another local provider that can even approach that kind of performance for just $53/month. That's why the local paper reported today that Cox hasn't lost any customers, in spite of the hell everybody's been though. |
| | Message to fellow Cox customers: if you get the Cox Conversion Kit, don't be a sucker for it. Ignore the CD and just change your settings manually. The manual supplied for the purpose is actually rather complete. It even has OS X instructions. |
| | And if nothing else works, unplug your cable modem for an hour or two. It's a piss-on-a-spark plug solution, but it works. Same goes for your router/hub, if that's the device talking to the cable modem instead of your computer. Just plug in your router after you turn on your cable modem. Same piss, different plug. |
| | By the way, I just posted this to the osOpinion forum. Even though I joined up, it still called me "anonymous." What the hell. |
Browne out
| | Saw Jackson Browne perform last night. He was good. Skinny as ever. Same haircut (he has very pretty hair that reflects light perfectly). He forgot a lot of his lyrics, and joked about the "challenge of my rambling, unfoucussed stage persona, in front of a band." I thought this was part of his act, but our friend Susan, who used to travel with his band, said it was new. The event was a benefit concert for the No Recall campaign of Gail Marshall, a local county Supervisor. Everybody was walking around with "no recall" buttons. I made jokes about being caught in an Alzheimer's convention. But given how often he flubbed his lyrics, I thought Jackson should have worn the button. |
| | At one point David Crosby came onstage to sing harmony on a song, but left and never showed up again. Even when the whole band played, there was one empty microphone. Seemed strange. |
| | There were a lot of women in the audience, and they kept calling out for him to play different songs. It brought home two things: 1) the guy put out a lot of music; and 2) chicks dig him. I remember when I hung out around rock radio in the '70s and early '80s that stations would add a lot of Jackson Browne if the audience got "too male." You could mix JB with a lot of hard rocking stuff and still stay sort of cool. |
| | When WDBS, the terrific little "progressive rock" station in Durham (NC) was sold, the last song they played was Browne's "After the Deluge." It perfectly expressed the sense of hopeless siege the community felt about losing the station. |
| | It was nice to hear the guy again. And annoying that he still looked youngish and fit. We're the same age, but only one of us looks it. |
| | Oh, there was some consolation: Jeff Bridges sat nearby in the audience. At first I thought he was Kris Kristofferson. He's younger than me but doesn't look it. So there. |
| | By the way, Jeff makes music, it says here on Jeff's site, with a link to the Amazon page where you can buy his CD, Be Here Soon. Dig the review: ouch. (But there's better stuff on this page.) |
Team copy editing
| | You guys catch me all the time with bad links, but nobody seemed to notice that I got the whole day wrong yesterday — except for my 5 year old son. "Tomorrow is February First, Papa!" he said. And he was right. |
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