Cere's comments

Hey Lara,

I really liked your last picture... I like this one too, but I really liked the last one. I didn't see it as sultry, though if I squint and tilt my head to the side, I could see how someone else might. I liked it because it seemed really personal and authentic.

It's so interesting to me how a picture of someone can strike a chord in people so differently.

One could argue that, depending on the nature of your business, you should just post a picture of yourself that you feel would resonate the best with the kinds of people you would want to do business with.

Very nice photo Michael.

Comcast has this funky shunt system that they impose on certain areas (apparently located on a central telephone pole somewhere) for when the local area being served is using more than what has been allocated by comcast. I was told this by a comcast tech at one point, so it explains why we tend to see highly varied speed performance with comcast depending on location. Fun.

Ah yes, regarding SASAG... good tip. Though, clearly not helpful to you since it came from you. :)

I think the Japanese must just rofltao when they see our bandwidth limitations.

-Cere

Dang Karrie!

There's nothing like a dare to get this kind of thing really moving. Well done!

-Cere

Why don't you try these folks? http://bandwidthadvisors.com/

I'm told Michelle, their consultant, is pretty helpful. This service normally just caters to businesses who need lots of data pipe, but I am sure you would at least learn what all of your residential options are with a short phone conversation.

Comcast sucks for exactly the reasons you mentioned (and probably many you didn't). I've heard even worse things about Clearwire from some coworkers...

Ultimately, if you care about running anything other than a stateless short term client app (like a web browser, etc) on the end of your ISP, you'll wind up having to look at a more robust service. There are always tricks like setting up vpn's and sending tcp keep-alives over ssh connections, but this kind of workaround just winds up being more trouble than it's worth for most real world scenarios.

This sounds like a winner for me.

Very nice. It's rare to see someone who is so gifted at engaging a reader by doing things, via writing, that are so unexpected. Speaking for myself, I really hate reading and writing. It's a necessary evil, I know, but I never really liked it. I never would have read through what she wrote had she not provided the text in a way that seemed to invite me to know her personal character/style in a way that plain old text couldn't do. Pretty cool stuff.

-Cere

This sounds like a really useful event! Thanks for posting it. I'll let a friend know about this.

-Cere

thanks for this invite Eva. I wish I were in Portland.

CubeSpace sounds so neat. I'm not aware of anything like it in Seattle.

...yet

-Cere

Boy... You know, in my experience things like this happen all the time. I'm sorry to hear that it's happened to you...because I know the process must really suck.

But perhaps the good new is, long term, that when other people don't support you it forces you to suport yourself more, and depending on your level of conviction in your pursuits, it will help you clarify your overall vision. Ughh, hope that's not too trite.

Feel free to just send me a sideways frown face if it is and I'll work on somthing better.

-Cere

ack....

English, is apparently not first language. I meant to say that I was amazed, at the time I knew about them, that they hadn't been acquired yet.

-Cere

That is really cool. Thanks for sharing that TED talk.

I was following SeaDragon - who used to be based out of Fremont, Seattle) before they got acquired and was at the time that they hadn't been to date. If Microsoft releases this technology to the public in a way that enables users to to innovate further (as Google seems to), I will be very happy!

-Cere

It was indeed a really REALLY well run conference and afterwards party... Heroically well organized by those two. I hope they're resting it off finally.

I'm still trying to get over all the great connections made with others through this conference. I'm sort of feeling some post Bizjam depression as few conference experiences compare to Bizjam's intensity and quality.

-Cere

This is a great event idea Nancy! I'm totally game.

-Cere