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TECHNOLOGYSITE: Wordie, a gestalt
Monday, July 7, 2008
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TECH SERVICE: Fooling around with CAFEPRESS stores
Monday, July 7, 2008
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INTERESTING: Success through failures
Monday, July 7, 2008http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2008/07/figure-out-why-and-where-others-failed.html
Figure out why (and where) others failed
Monday, July 07, 2008 – posted by hellomynameisscott at 9:21 AM
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Here are some questions you can ask:
1. What was the biggest mistake you made in your first year of business?
2. What are the three biggest mistakes made by people in your industry?
3. What is the stupidest possible thing I could be doing right now?
4. If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?
5. What’s on your list of “Things I’ll Never Do Again”?
6. What things do you wish you started doing earlier?
7. Complete the following sentence: “I would have been a lot more successful had I never…”
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1. What was the biggest mistake you made in your first year of business?
Not realizing that the gravy train would end when a key guarantor of the whole effort would get a divorce in the third year. The effort limped along after that as he was distracted. The workers, like me, needed him to schmooze the big wigs and get us in the door. It was lucrative and I should have billed more when the ‘billing fairy’ was sprinkling money on any contract you proposed.
2. What are the three biggest mistakes made by people in your industry?
* Fail to invest in themselves. (One thing I have done right is 1% in tech toys and 1% in education.)
* Fail to realize their ‘real’ job is to find their next one.
* Fail to have a formal networking program (ala Lucht’s description) running at ALL times.
3. What is the stupidest possible thing I could be doing right now?
Being complacent about the probability I’ll be laid off by EOY!
4. If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?
I would go to Law School with my AT&T Study group that I did my MBA with! That was a BIG mistake.
5. What’s on your list of “Things I’ll Never Do Again”?
Never trust anything not in writing. Never doubt your gut feelings. Never chase money. Never make investment decision based on taxes as the top criteria. Never make big mistakes; just lots of small ones!
6. What things do you wish you started doing earlier?
Saving for retirement. Or started at all? Followed the Sony Bloch’s ‘Buy 12 houses as a retirement plan’. Ran track in college. Played poker. Wrote my books.
7. Complete the following sentence: “I would have been a lot more successful had I never…”
Lost my information security focus when I branched into Enterprise Architecture.
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Seventy Four – Sprinting tunnel rats
Monday, July 7, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Seventy Four – Sprinting tunnel rats
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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TECHHARDWARE: JVC Customer Service Camcorder set
Monday, July 7, 2008The following information has been sent to JVC Customer Service.
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First Name: fjohn
Last Name: reinke
E-Mail:
Address:
City: Kendall Park
State: NJ
Zip Code: 08824
Phone Number:
Model Number: GZ-HD3U
Serial Number: 13265472
Purchase Date: 2008-07-06
Product Type: Everio/Camcorder
Inquiry Type: Hookup/Operation
E-Mail Body: Can’t set the clock. Seems dumb.
Your email has been sent! Due to our increasing email volume, our current response time is 5 business days. We apologize for this temporary inconvenience. Thank you for contacting JVC Customer Care.
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Guess what guys. If I can’t figure out how to set the clock by bed time tonight. Back it goes!!
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Dear Ms. Garcia: Way too late. You didn’t make your promised SLA. I wound up calling in. The clock is set. But, it didn’t work for several hours as I reset the clock over and over again. It just wouldn’t save. It was as if there was a magic button I was missing. When I called in and powered it up talking to the phone rep, magic: the clock was set. I hope whatever gremlin was there has left for other places. But, who knows. fjohn
p.s., Emailing me the reproduced instruction page is really irritating. Did you think I didn’t read it? Or couldn’t find page 17! The phone rep was equally condescending. Argh!
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On Jul 11, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Garcia, Nancy wrote:
Dear Mr. / Ms. Reinke,
Thank you for contacting JVC Customer Care. I am Nancy, your email care specialist. We value you as a JVC customer and appreciate the opportunity to be of assistance.
I understand that you are inquiring about having trouble setting the clock.
Please follow the steps below on how to set the clock.
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If we can be of further assistance, please let us know at customerrelations@jvc.com.
Sincerely,
Nancy
JVC Customer Care Center
This e-mail and its attachments may contain JVC proprietary information, which is PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, or subject to COPYRIGHT belonging to JVC. This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this e-mail to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this e-mail is STRICTLY PROHIBITED and may be UNLAWFUL. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout. Thank you.
[JR: Privileged? Confidential? Copyright? Are they kidding!?!]
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FITing: First Gas Up!!!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Shell station on Route 38 at Exit 40 on 295 … $3.99 per gallon. Argh! = $33.44
125.8 miles divided by 8.411 gallons
an unimpressive 14.95 mpgs
Arghh!!!
Maybe it’ll improve?
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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …
Monday, July 7, 2008You don’t? TOO BAD!
This morning 07 July at 0715 edst on Route 295 South milepost 43 … …
… … a silver olds (I can check the rear of the car he was so close) sg 24 722 … …
… … up my ass at leisurely 70 (Your serf speed limit is 65) … …
… … I was slowly passing lots of traffic otherwise I’d have been cruise controlling in the right lane … …
… … tailgating the poor peon in his way (me!) … …
… … I moved over when it was safe maybe a quarter mile tops … …
… … your bozo blew by with a dirty look and maybe a Hawaiian finger greeting … …
… … never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?) … …
… … as stomped on it to jump to tailgating the next poor slob who was less than 10 car lengths in front!!!!!
Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to getaway from I assume trenton to protect and serve me.
Arghhh!
Arghhhhhhh!
P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.
P.P.S.: This one really torqued me off. I may even call the gripe line for state cars in Trenton when I calm down!
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