I've been trying to find where I can add my external services (like, say, Twitter) and haven't been able to find it. My dumb or is it not released yet or does the UI still need work? - Don MacAskill
Don, it's not released yet. What you saw was just the press announcement. Release coming shortly! - Omar Shahine
But I want non-replies posted to Twitter... I don't see a setting for turning off just my replies or something.... - Don MacAskill
ok I turned off including "Comments that I make on public FriendFeed entries" in my `post my friendfeed entries on twitter' section - won't that still send general FF shared notes over to twitter ? let me test. - David Pascoe
A Message I shared from FF made it over to twitter. Comments on twitter entries already imported into FF require me to click "Also send this comment as an @reply twitter from pascoedj " to get back to twitter. This is not what you want ? - David Pascoe
This will exclude all comments of course, not just comments on twitter entries, so indeed these comments I'm posting here don't get to twitter, which is ok I guess. - David Pascoe
Don, are you trying to get me to spend $11 on a book to find out the cure to cancer? I want the answer now, isn't there some sort of snarky web video with the answer? - Jason Shellen
It hasn't stopped hate. Hate should be next week's priority. - Patricia
Short, free answer: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." NYT: http://twurl.nl/3lk34h Now spend $11 and save your life. :) - Don MacAskill
Basically, I installed Windows Vista x64 fresh in Boot Camp on my Mac Pro. Works like a charm, as usual, but I can't get any of the Apple drivers installed because 'setup.exe' on the Mac OS X CD keeps telling me that the system has a 'pending restart' and to reboot first. I've rebooted about 20 times, to no avail. There seem to be plenty of discussions on Apple's message forums about the problem, but no answers. Anyone know what's up and how to get around it? - Don MacAskill
I can help you over here. But I'm running out for 20 minutes. I couldn't DM you on Twitter because you don't follow me. This isn't an unusual problem for Windows users. It's known to happen when installing Kaspersky antivirus. What happens is that a flag gets set in the registry telling Windows it has pending operations to do after a reboot. It either never happens or the information doesn't get erased from the registry. Let me know if using WhyReboot? works or not. I'll check back shortly. :) - Dr. Apps
Don - do you see anything fishy in your event log? Do you have any pending updates in Windows Update? The msiexec log or your eventlog should have clues to help debug this - Sriram Krishnan
Dr. Apps - I'll definitely try WhyReboot in a few minutes. Hope that helps. I haven't installed any anti-virus software (never have in my life) or anything like that - this is a fresh, fully updated Windows Vista Ultimate x64 install. Only app I've installed is 'Steam'. - Don MacAskill
@Sriram Krishnan - After about 10 reboots, finally, no, I have no Windows Updates. Why on earth it takes so many reboots to simply get full updated, I'll never understand, but I'm finally done. I'll check msiexec and the eventlog as soon as I reboot back into Vista. - Don MacAskill
I just brought up Kaspersky as an example of the pending reboot behavior. That example can also be the fuel to search around for solutions. It's funny because I have seen the pending file renames/operations/reboot issue in Vista very often. Used to see it in XP quite frequently. Actually just to confirm, the bootcamp driver intall is a MSI based app, correct? I haven't used BootCamp in a long time so I forget. Good luck. Let me know what happens. :) - Dr. Apps
Apple doesn't listen to social media, unfortunately - Jesse Stay
@drapps WhyReboot says "No items were found". Boot Camp's installer still says "A system restart is pending. Complete the restart and then retry this installation." Any more ideas? - Don MacAskill
I've heard all sorts of horror stories about 64 on boot camp. You're better off with 32 if you can manage. :/ - Josh
Darn. I'm going to have to look into it first hand to see if I can figure it out. I won't have any additional input until tomorrow. Maybe somebody else will chime in in the meantime. I've never run V64 under BootCamp so I don't know how much of a horror show it may be (as Josh stated above). But if that's the case, that stinks. Vista 64 is the way to go if you are going to run Windows on a nice machine. If it doesn't work well under BootCamp then that stinks for power users like Don. - Dr. Apps
“@donmacaskill what I was hoping is that as I upload the CR2, that smugmug would convert to jpg and attach the original RAW automatically (and store in AWS). Does it do that?”
Thanks, we're looking into the LinkedIn issue. I haven't heard anything about Vimeo. Jesse, can you use the bug form (http://friendfeed.com/about/co...) to report your Vimeo issue and we'll investigate? - Ana
Jesse, your Vimeo profile isn't available at http://www.vimeo.com/jessestay - which is what is linked to from your FriendFeed page and I think that's how FriendFeed grabs the data. You should be able to update this here: http://www.vimeo.com/settings/... (Ana, I think that by default the user's Vimeo URL uses a unique ID rather than their username. Also, it seems their profile URL isn't necessary the same as their username.) - Tony Ruscoe
Tony, ah - I didn't realize you had to create a shortcut profile. FriendFeed wasn't very clear what ID needed to be put in the Vimeo settings. Thanks. (and Ana it's nice to see FF using its own service to track problems - Twitter doesn't do that) - Jesse Stay
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I've been getting reports that SmugMug' s updates aren't coming through, either.... - Don MacAskill
Jesse - Yeah I was very impressed with FF team's use of their own product for feedback / support tracking - Susan Beebe
“@donmacaskill know of any good tools for associating RAW from smugvault with the actual picture during the upload process? (store both, then associate the 2 together automatically)”
SmugMug does this automagically for you as long as the filenames match with different extensions. PHOTO.jpg and PHOTO.cr2 will be automatically associated, for example. - Don MacAskill
so do I have to upload the jpg and cr2 seperately or will it upload the cr2, convert to jpg, and associate the cr2 with the jpg automatically? - Jesse Stay
Why???? I've never had any problems with them? - Roberto Bonini
@rbonini I'm gonna blog about it, but short story is their SAS arrays crash & burn when something happens on their ethernet management port. SO DUMB! - Don MacAskill
SocialToo doesn't seem to do that, though. Or their page is just poorly worded. It sounds like yet-another-service - when what I really want is for FriendFeed to just auto-add my Twitter followers so I never have to go to Twitter again. :) - Don MacAskill
Don, it's probably just poorly worded. I'm still working on content and UI - functionality is more important to me. We added some new features yesterday in fact that put it in competition with Qwitter as well: http://staynalive.com/articles... - Jesse Stay
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Don, are you talking about letting FriendFeed detect your Twitter followers that are on FriendFeed and auto-follow them on FriendFeed? SocialToo doesn't do that yet, no. If FriendFeed doesn't do it it's in my plans though. - Jesse Stay
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Basically, I want FriendFeed to auto-follow the people I'm following on Twitter. If they don't have FriendFeed accounts, I want it to create an Imaginary Friend (great FF feature!). And it should do this periodically to keep everything fresh. - Don MacAskill
Ah Don - we don't do that, *yet*. I've got some cool ideas for FF integration on what FF decides not to do. - Jesse Stay
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this would be so nice. Especially if FF continues to be smart about it and gives options to limit the depth. That was my biggest issue with twitter, I wanted to see Leo and Don, but not all their friends. - Chris Abbey
agree with Don, would love to import all my Twitter contacts into FF as either their actual FF account or imaginary friends if no FF account. I'd also like to see FF auto replace imaginary friends with FF accounts when the imaginary friend joins FF. - Thomas Hawk
Well let's hope this sticks... what a great piece of news!!! - Brian Roy
Hmm not so sure this is good news. Good news for people who hate ip squatters. Good news for copycats. Bad news for people building something to only get ripped off - Phill Price
Phil: No way, you're wrong. I'm building something every day of my life. I'm not scare someone will rip me off - I'm scared someone will claim they own a process of my business that isn't novel, unique, or new and put me out of business. - Don MacAskill
Saw Gillmore's video of this meeting. The 36 minutes I caught were fascinating. I don't think I saw you ask a question, though. Did you? If so, what was it and what was the gist of the response? Just curious. - James Urquhart
So I was a little unique in the room - I'd already been briefed long ago on Red Dog and had access to the SDK for quite awhile. Ray Ozzie and I have spoken about cloud computing on more than one occasion. And most of the other bloggers there were interested in sorta broad "how will this affect Microsoft?" question. I was interested in deep technical "how will this affect me?" questions - so I asked them later, privately, so as not to take up too much of the bloggers' time. - Don MacAskill
Don: out of all the people who are talking about this stuff you are the one I'm watching the most. Are you going to write up your thoughts of all this stuff? Will you switch SmugMug to Microsoft? (Don is CEO of SmugMug and is one of Amazon's S3's best-known customers). - Robert Scoble
Robert: I'm planning on it, yes, but there's my age-old dilemma: Do I write about the subject or just spend that time actually working on the subject? :) I need a ghost-blogger to take my thoughts and blog them. Haha! - Don MacAskill
Well... that has always been a problem with MS - they attempted to push you into an all or nothing decision. - Brian Roy
This time it doesn't seem that cut & dried. There are parts of WA I can use today, which is really cool, and there are some other things in the pipe that should make my job easier, too. Just don't know if I can talk about them yet. - Don MacAskill
That would be great - finally MS as part of the architecture without turning the entire architecture over to MS - now we just need to work on Oracle :) - Brian Roy
Hmm, Don, are you speaking at PDC? (He's CEO of SmugMug which famously uses Amazon's cloud services, so if he switches to a different cloud supplier it'll be huge). - Robert Scoble
Don, I'm curious--what are you most interested to see at PDC? - Matt Cutts
Sorry guys, didn't check FF until just now. Haven't seen you yet DeWitt, but I'll keep my eyes peeled. :) Matt, I'm interested in cloud computing, and especially competition in the cloud computing arena. - Don MacAskill
@Roberto Bonini: Oh, we do more than that. The fully loaded Mac Pro w/2 x 30" displays and a MBP or MBA (your choice) are only the begining. See mid-way through this post: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2... - Don MacAskill
@clarke thomas: I have dual 30", so no 24" for me. :) - Don MacAskill
Was surprised to see the last entry get more comments on the blog post rather than friendfeed. Used to it being the reverse these days. Do Solaris people just not use FriendFeed? - Don MacAskill
Hard-core geeks in general don't use FriendFeed - they use Identi.ca or IRC or Mailman - Jesse Stay
You all are crazy. But I love hanging out with crazy optimists. - Robert Scoble
Yes. It was also a great buying opportunity at 180, 160, 150, 130, and 110. - Morton Fox
Morton: I'll start buying at 22. :-) - Robert Scoble
No way. I'm not buying again until it splits. I purchased AAPL at $19 so even today it looks too expensive for purchase. I only wish I had more cash back then to buy a ton of shares when Apple was on the rocks - Glenn Batuyong
I also thought something along that lines last week when it was at 107 or so... Not so much anymore + I'm broke anyways. - Holger Eilhard
Robert, we're not even in a recession yet - there's every good reason to buy right now. FUD by the media is what will kill the economy. - Jesse Stay
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Jesse: our economy is in a total mess. I don't care what you call it, but to try to put lipstick on this pig isn't going to help anyone. It just makes you look strange after people figure out you were blowing smoke up their you know what. - Robert Scoble
Robert, I'm not denying it's a mess. I'm just saying the stock market isn't entirely driven by the economy - it's driven by the buying habits of the citizens. We're in serious debt as a nation right now, but that doesn't mean that there's no money out there, or that the stock market won't go back up. FUD by the media will keep it from going up more than anything. - Jesse Stay
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Jesse: and every indication is that a lot of our economy is hoarding right now, which is driving us into a death spiral. Translation: stay as far away from Apple as you can. - Robert Scoble
Tad: yup, because of strong iPhone sales. - Robert Scoble
Robert, I'm sorry, but you're crazy. You *want* to buy when things are a mess. There's a reason Warren Buffett is the world's richest man - and it's just common sense. "Buy low, sell high" when translated into Buffetspeak, is "Buy when everyone's scared, sell when everyone's excited". Buy now. And keep buying as it gets worse. As soon as people say "Best. Economy. Ever." 5 years from now - start selling. - Don MacAskill
Don: if you said "dollar cost average back into stocks as they go down" I'd agree with you. But that doesn't mean buying a whole lot right now. There is still a lot that can go wrong with Apple. Most of Apple's products are not a "must buy" kind of thing. Christmas is going to be brutal at retail. So, financial results for next two quarters a re going to be pretty brutal. Why would you buy any stock today. Buying "low" doesn't mean "buy them when they are going down." There's plenty of time. - Robert Scoble
I agree with scobleizer. It's too risky to buy a bunch at once. AAPL will almost certainly make it out of this mess and people will hopefully return to buying its products but for the time being, dollar-cost-averaging would be the only way i'd be buying. And you still may be talking about years before you profit. In that time, competition and the market for their products can change dramatically. - ·[▪_▪]·
Friend of mine who is a financial officer for a company here in Asia thinks we still probably have two years before we see the bottom of this. - Justin Long
Robert: If you're looking at a long-term investing strategy, dollar-cost averaging right now would work very well. Particularly if you're doing it on a robust index of stocks, rather than just a few or just an industry. However, that doesn't preclude finding great one-off buying opportunities - and AAPL at $89 was/is a great opportunity. Why? See my next message... :) - Don MacAskill
Why is AAPL @ $89 a great buying opportunity? (Note, I'm not saying it's the *best* buying opportunity - if it goes down more, buy then too!). But it's best because they have solid fundamentals, a great balance sheet, and most of all - Apple out-executed every other tech company I can think of during the last downturn. Instead of cowering in fear, Apple consciously decided to "double down" on talent, R&D, and innovation because they wanted to be in the power position when the downturn ended. - Don MacAskill
Don: cool. You have the money to spend. I just believe this market has a lot more downward pressure on it to come. Especially if financial results aren't what are expected (and they won't be, is my bet). So, if you are buying short term, I think you're going to get the nasties. If you're buying long term there is absolutely no reason to not dollar cost average into Apple at this point. Not much upside to trying to time this market. - Robert Scoble
Steve got *reamed* for it in the press, just as he's gotten *reamed* the last two years for sitting on their cash hoard. Now, as then, he looks brilliant. He has the cash to massively innovate and entrench during the downturn and come out smelling like roses in a few years. Mark my words - bookmark this thread. Dinner's on me if I'm wrong, anywhere you like. But dinner's on you if I'm right. Deal? :) - Don MacAskill
Don: again: I agree with you if you take a two-year-long term outlook. In which case dollar cost averaging won't hurt you at all. But if you think you're going to see only Apple upside from $89 between now and say March of next year I think you're smoking crack. Now, if it goes up to $140 I'll lick your boots. :-) - Robert Scoble
I *don't* have any money to spend - because I'm attempting to follow in Steve's footsteps. I believe the downturn is an awesome opportunity for SmugMug, so we're planning on scooping up talent and innovating our hearts out so when it's over, we'll be stronger than ever. *crosses fingers* - Don MacAskill
Don: even there, I wouldn't buy too early. remember the last downturn? You didn't need to buy in 2001. The worst of the layoffs came in 2002 and lots of great people were on the street as late as 2004. - Robert Scoble
I'm with Don - *if* I had the money to buy now's a great opportunity to buy AAPL. In the meantime, it's a great opportunity for any startup - get good talent and make good stuff. Not everything fails in a bad economy. - Jesse Stay
I'd be buying if I had lots of cash that wasn't tied up in other stocks and a mutual fund. I'm not selling my ABT.TO stock at $5. - Mike Hussein Cohen
I have always found it odd that since the stock market is a reflection of the perception of traders, it is the traders that more or less determine the health of the stock market. Of course there are other factors, in this case they are actually real world factors such as people losing their homes and massive layoffs that affect spending power, but basically there is enough money among rich investors to bend the market to their will. Is this illegal market manipulation or a just more efficient free market solution than the bailout? - Devlin Dunsmore
Liked what you said, but I'm not hoarding. That only fuels the fear fire. - Kevin C. Tofel
oh, and look. They passed the bail out bill and the dow is still going down. That sure was a good use of 700 billion dollars. - Wizetux
Is this not the time for someone to step in and give us 'hope'? Take a deep breath, calm down. Or are we being sent the message and no one is listening? On the other hand we are in the free market and the market is supposed to be always rational :p - Sheraz Mahmood
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@Devlin but the trader's perception is generally based on the outlook of the companies they're trading which is based on the strength of economies. - ·[▪_▪]·
Positive news from my Grandma who lived through the Great Depression: It could be worse. - todd
For those who can master their fears, this is a huge opportunity. I can assure you Warren Buffet is on high alert and will be taking massive advantage during the downturn - and I can tell you SmugMug is planning on "doubling down" on super-star talent during the downturn, too, as we watch our competitors without business models flounder. The news is only doom-and-gloom if you look at it that way. Instead, look at it as a buying/building/solidfying opportunity. - Don MacAskill
Wizetux: it would be far worse if the banks weren't bailed out. Morton: my cash. I have some that was budgeted to fix a shower that we're not fixing. Kevin: it's time we face our fears and stop trying to pretend this market is healthy. The sooner we hit the bottom of our fear, the better off we are. - Robert Scoble
+1 on Don's comment. It is going to suck in many ways, but keep the long view and see how you can make the best of the situation. This is a huge correction to our market that has been building for a long time, but this too shall pass. - Jeremy Hall
Preparation is the arch-enemy of fear..... IMHO - Bwana
Fear may be bottomless. Actively countering fear could work better. - todd
I'm at the point now where I only want to hear positive news about the economy, or at least my own future. I hope that in the short term my programming skills will prove useful to folks - in the long term, I know they will. - Tad, better than boredom
Don: that is great advice, but if you buy too early going into a downturn you can do yourself real harm. Let's say you think the market is going up from here and it goes down to 7,000. That isn't smart. I'd wait to see the bottom of our fears first. We aren't even close to being there yet. - Robert Scoble
Maybe I'll regret it but I've been buying stocks. Bought some AAPL today. - Mike Doeff
If you plan on buying, i think you can start buying soon and plan to dollar-cost-average all the way down. That's only possible if you think you won't need to touch any of that money for a few years. But it's a good way to buy into good companies. Another option, save and wait until things start recovering ~2010. - ·[▪_▪]·
Mike: if you have $10,000 to invest and think the market will go up soon, I'd dollar cost average into the market. There is no way to time this market. Now, what do you do if you are totally into the market and think it's going down to 8,000? Do you stay in for "long term" along with you guys? :-) - Robert Scoble
@Mike. That is a good thing. Buy low, sell high. And you won't regret it in 3 years when the DOW comes back up. - Wizetux
Wizetux: if the market comes up in three years dollar cost averaging in now will be MUCH better than buying all in today. - Robert Scoble
Dollar Cost Averaging means if you have $10,000 you don't invest all $10,000 today. You put $1,000 into the market every month (or, if you are more conservative, $500 every month). That lets you get your money into a market without trying to time it. If the market goes down to 7,000 before starting back up, then this strategy will make you a ton of money. Chances are this market is going down a lot further. The bad side is if it turns around and starts going up today. - Robert Scoble
I agree with scobleizer. If you're wanting to invest $10K, divide it up into weekly or monthly portions per investment over a year or two and invest it on a schedule. You'll be way better off than investing it all at once. - ·[▪_▪]·
Robert, I've been doing very small trades - not betting the farm. I still have some dry powder available if it goes down further. - Mike Doeff
This is painful...but there is no real solution around it...it will take time. I do not think that it is just the fear cycle. We need time to regroup, refocus and start innovating again. I think that this crash is the end of speculative markets. If America wants to stay ahead, we need to go back to innovation and productivity. The good news is that there are still tons and tons of problem to be solved... - Edwin Khodabakchian
At what point does the President Suspend Trading completely? - Chris W
"The good news is that there are still tons and tons of problem to be solved..." Contrary to how I would expect for this statement to make me feel, it actually gives me some hope!! - Lindsay Donaghe
@Robert, except that over the long term, the market has been shown to return more on the dollar than that of the inflation of the dollar, so in the long (more than 5 years) run, buying now will always be better than keeping your dollars. - Wizetux
Christopher: why would the President do that? Does he have the power to do that? Wouldn't that freak people out even more? - Robert Scoble
But I also agree, that buying in small portions is always the better method. - Wizetux
Wizetux that's absolutely wrong. It is because you are averaging in the good years with the bad. If you can avoid the bad years your money will do even better! - Robert Scoble
Robert, He can. He can declare a state of emergency (i.e. Martial Law) and I believe that includes the markets. We can thank 911/The Patriot Act for that. Since congressman were apparently threatened with Martial Law if the bailout bill didn't pass, I wouldn't put it past the current administration. http://www.wikio.com/video/482... - Bwana
Yeah, and if I knew what the lottery numbers are going to be tonight, then I would buy a lottery ticket. However, since I don't, I am going to play the option with the best return at my acceptable rate of risk. The stock market is not a a method to make quick cash, but something that makes you money over the long term. According to the last 50 years, the good year of the market have always out performed the bad ones. - Wizetux
Robert, you misunderstand me. I'm not pretending that the market is healthy because it's not. I'm simply trying not change my spending habits as a result. I've always been a saver and while I hate to see big unrealized losses, I have no need of my long term investments for 20+ years. My income hasn't changed (luckily) so I'm fighting to keep my spending habits at normal for as long as possible. - Kevin C. Tofel
Being that I am 27 years old, I can afford to have my money in the stock market because I have at least another 40 year to work and make more money. Now, I am not going to put all of my money there because I need to eat and I will loss more taking money back out of the market in the short term. Now, if I was 50 and looking at retirement in 10 years, I would only have a very little of my money in the market because it won't make enough there and the risk is too high. Thus I would buy CDs or Bonds. - Wizetux
isn't talking about suspending trading and declaring martial law a little premature? doesn't it add into the fear this post is supposed to help counter? - Jonathan Jesse
Jonathan, I didn't say it, the congressman did. I'll tell you one thing, it's best to be prepared than to be caught off guard. There's a difference between panicking and planning. But I'm just a fear-mongering, conspiracy theorist, don't listen to me :) - Bwana
The fundamentals of many companies have been ignored. Now without hype being used to sell, you've only got the balance sheet. Have a look at what typically blue chip stocks have been trading at; 12-24 Price:Earnings. It's still a correction and it is justified - Cains
Robert, chill. Don't get people all panicky. Yes, the economy is taking a hit, but the Dow is only one metric. We need to be strong and willing to shoulder this burden together to turn things around. - Teresa Valdez Klein
Teresa: I can't chill. I've been reading the Wall Street Journal and the Economist and they aren't chilling. :-) - Robert Scoble
I didn't get out in January when I had some gains and it's too late to get out now, no point in buying high and selling low. I'm young enough that it's better for me to just ride out the storm. Plus I'm automatically doing dollar cost averaging via my 401k. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Alex: the market could go way down and stay down for a few years. As long as you can risk that, I'd stay in. Me? I don't have enough market money to worry about and I'm just staying in anyway. I wish I had gotten out earlier too, but that's water under the bridge. - Robert Scoble
Hoarding or Saving? Is this like Bail out or Rescue plan? - Cains
Cains: saving is what you were doing (or should have been doing) six months ago. Hoarding is what you are doing differently today. See the difference? I do in my own budgets. - Robert Scoble
wanna do it on your own expense and for indefinite time (ok, at least time of product/service life cycle), not just "one off lesson"? we've seen so many *heroes* to show only to fail miserably, and Apple with their *customer service* along issues in iWhatNots is latest example :) - silpol
they are shit jobs, in rooms without fresh air or natural lighting, underpaid, the entire shift is putting up with bozos and abuse, what the hell do you expect? - Gregory Lent
I just get everything I can from Zappos, The Zappos Buyer for sandals even contacted me when I put a tweet out asking for recommendation for sandals for people with wide feet, ridonculously good Customer Service, ZAPPOS! - Andrew Fielding
My father is a restaurateur, and therefore I grew up in and around restaurants. Whether I was selling Fast food when he had the concessions at the Hollywood Bowl or running one of his high end restaurants Nicky Blair’s on the Sunset Strip, there are a few things he taught me from the beginning. Besides the customer is always right, he always told me that the three most important things in this business are service, service, and service. Anything less is unacceptable. This lesson applies to any service related business. - Michael Fidler
michael I agree. I think everyone should work at a restaurant at some point in their lives just to teach this. My parents owned restaurants too when I was younger and I learned some very valuable lessons from that. - Jesse Stay
Jesse, the problem is that most restaurants don't practise that anymore. Maybe the downturn will be good for weeding out the ones with poor service. - Kenton
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