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Stay Young and Keep the Spirit

Startups often forget that’s what they are — new and energetic talents with great ideas. Many eventually were prematurely lured into thinking they are THE hotshots. Eventually, most lose their talents and majority of these startups just die poor and pathetic death.

Startups often forget that’s what they are — new and energetic talents with great ideas. Many eventually were prematurely lured into thinking they are THE hotshots. Eventually, most lose their talents and majority of these startups just die poor and pathetic death.

I got this email from Flickr today regarding their move to a new facility in California after a corporate buy out by Yahoo.

The Flickr team has up and moved this week to Californ-i-a and has been singing Beach Boys songs non-stop since arrival. And you’re moving too!

We’re moving each and every pixel, bit, and byte, all your data, lock, stock, and barrel, from our humble server shack in Canada to our new server palace in the U.S. of A!

This process will begin during the week of June 28 and will result in speediness, stableness, and happiness. For more information, please visit the FAQ about the data center move.
http://www.flickr.com/help.gne#94

Thank you, Flickreebies, for making Flickr such a wonderful place to share, connect, and befriend. We love you! (In an entirely non-creepy way.)

– The Flickroobies

In a former life, I worked at a company that was small, fun and stayed a startup for a number of years. But towards the end (my end, that is), something got into its head and made it think that it was one of the fortune 100 big boys though it was nowhere to be found even with a microscope.

If there’s such thing as a company spirit, it makes me wonder if it can go bad like a bag of rotten fish. And what happens when the management passively ignores low employee morals and insists on marching in a tunnel of misguided perceptions and formulated ill-instructed actions? A company only stays young when great ideas are nurtured and dreams cradled. I hope companies like Flickr and Google stay young forever, just like Apple once did when it was at the top of its game.

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Author shunPosted on 06/21/200512/21/2005Categories No Logo, RantLeave a comment on Stay Young and Keep the Spirit

Stupid Canon Camcorder

A wide spread issue in Canon’s CCD chip has caused many camcorders going bad. Luckily, Canon is very good at dealing with these issues. Read on.

The Canon camcorder that single-handedly prevented me from attending Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford is getting a free repair from Canon. I called Canon, and apparently they have a “good will repair program” going on for the model that I own (translation: avoid class action lawsuit).

The way Canon went about doing this was impressive. Even though the warranty had already expired, they honored the repair for the CCD nonetheless. Their willingness to stand behind their products and their issues makes me a happy Canon customer. And happy Canon customer buys more Canon products!

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Author shunPosted on 06/14/200512/21/2005Categories Geek Stuff, No Logo, Rant2 Comments on Stupid Canon Camcorder

SBC Woes

SBC DSL and phone troubles

As if moving wasn’t stressful enough, we began to realize that the phone line wasn’t working not long after we moved in to the duplex. And this just compounds on top of the terrible service we received from SBC right before the move (rude customer service rep). But that could just be a small isolated incident.

It turned out that the first SBC technician crossed our line with someone else’s — that explains all the calls for “Diana”. When we called the number we have been assigned, though it rings, none of the phones in the house makes a sound. They ended up sending another guy out to fix the problem. That took them 1.5 days. Argh!

The problem extended to the DSL line as well. A call to tech support discovered that though SBC’s data division did switch my service to the new address, they “forgot” to add my information to the local router (hence the “could not find PPoE server” error messages). I have been going cold turkey for two days without the Internet. I tried checking emails using my Earthlink dialup, but seriously, once you go broadband, narrowband just blows.

It took SBC about four hours to get back to me with a working line. I give them credit for calling me back when they said they would. Kudos. But that’s not the end of the drama. The saga continues with the connection sporadically getting dropped (taking the phone portion of the line with it) for at least 15-20 minutes at a time. WTF!

So while they try to add my account info to the local telco router, I wait — and I continue to unpack my apartment which currently looks like Picasso‘s lesser known work “Violon, verre, pipe et encrier”.

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Author shunPosted on 06/09/200501/25/2008Categories Day to day life, No Logo, RantLeave a comment on SBC Woes

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