Mine is over 15 years old, and there's no way I can afford a new one in my current situation. I've been replacing parts as needed via the Saeco website (It's a Proteo Barista from Starbucks) and, so far, I've managed to keep my espresso flowing. I really could use a new brew head, but they want $75 damn dollars! Just know that repairs and deferral of final resting status are possible.
- Mark Jepsen
Saeco is the brand, and if I knew what was broken, I would fix it myself. If I can scratch-build computers, I can surely fix an Espresso machine. All i know is the water is not moving, even though the pump appears to be working just fine.
- Karoli
Brett, the old one is just an ancient little counter model. krups, I think. We bought the saeco used and refurbished, but it's not cooperating.
- Karoli
I once had to "unbend" a paper clip and use the wire to "ream" the channel inside the steaming wand. If the water isn't coming out through the brew head, that's a different issue. Sometimes you need to "prime" it by opening the steam wand until water comes out, then turning on the "brew/extraction" pump (without the brew head in place) until water comes out. Then attach the brew head...
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- Mark Jepsen
"As I just said to wuggaslady below, the real battle under all of the external debates has been over pre-existing conditions. When this bill passes (and it will) the war is won, and subsequent reforms will be with the full support of the insurance industry, which will slowly withdraw from the markets altogether."
- Karoli
"The only real problem to solve at this point is ending the pre-existing conditions exclusion and rescissions. Insurers will welcome the next round of reforms when they can't cherry-pick anymore. This has always been their line in the sand. The fight for the public option forced them to fight the battle on our turf instead of theirs and the result will be a strong set of reforms that will indeed result in affordable coverage for all."
- Karoli
"The only real problem to solve at this point is ending the pre-existing conditions exclusion and rescissions. Insurers will welcome the next round of reforms when they can't cherry-pick anymore. This has always been their line in the sand. The fight for the public option forced them to fight the battle on our turf instead of theirs and the result will be a strong set of reforms that will indeed result in affordable coverage for all."
- Karoli
"My issue isn't with raising issues and pushing for them. It is the judgment that drives me nuts. Before details are out, it's "Reid sold out younger for older" (open salvo in generational wars), "Obama is a Republican in Democrats' clothing", etc. Those judgments do real harm with no benefit."
- Karoli
"Jaelithe, I thought Ezra Klein nailed it in less words that I could put together: "public option partnered with Medicare might have been better than these policies, but national non-profits and direct competition between Medicare and insurers is more promising than the compromised public plans that succeeded the initial policy idea. In fact, it's like we split the strong public option into two parts. ""
- Karoli
Someone needs to build a Twitter proxy service that'll hold tweets until the service is back up online and repost them.
- Tom Morris
There is a major problem with Twitter. Tweets from people you are NOT following are appearing in your stream. These are NOT Twitter ReTweet either.
- David Damore
It wasn't LeWeb's fault. No one is even here in the hall yet. The conference starts in 45 minutes or so.
- Robert Scoble
"Responding to unscheduled downtime 1 second ago We are working to respond to a disruption in service that stated approximately 10 minutes ago."
- David Damore
"It's not ideal. But here's what I have right now and for the forseeable future: Nothing. Not just nothing; no chance to get anything. So which option works best for me? Bankruptcy or piecemeal?"
- Karoli
"I think the entire issue is an effort to derail health care reform with a wedge issue about a procedure that is legal. After Sticks was born, I had a D that's the same procedure as abortion. Would I have had to pay for it? If I hadn't had it, I'd have bled to death."
- Karoli
steve friendfeed was not available this morning...the message refers to that. not seeing any appreciable break in the twitter blockade.
- Karoli
I actually got a complaint from someone who follows me on Twitter about link flooding coming from Friendfeed, so it's good the blockade is there, for now at least.
- Mr. Gunn
Ben, while you're at it, can you fix whatever broke Amazon wishlists? Thanks!
- Michael R. Bernstein
The blockade is in the other direction. If Twitter won't acknowlege it then Facebook is effectively killing the service.
- Steve Gillmor
from iPhone
Give full support and resources to Mr. Golub!! We all want a thing from that post, even without its context 8).
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
What's up with FF links not showing up on Twitter? It's been that way for about a week. The FF link interface has always confused me. And now it doesn't work.
- A Mitchell
Seems to be working here but Twitter posta are delayed by 20 minutes to two hours due to legal issues
- Steve Gillmor
from iPhone
I have had some problems with pages fully loading since it came back, Home feed and Best of Day in particular. Posts at the bottom of the page are cut off and like, comments, and expanding to read comments is impossible unless I open the individual posts in a new window. Very frustrating.
- April Russo (app103)
Links are still not coming through from FriendFeed to Twitter. I'm not making this up.
- A Mitchell
"The Senate is going to be in session all weekend, debating the big health care bill and arguing about which direction the cost-curve is heading. This is a positive development on two counts. It keeps senators off the streets while providing much-needed employment in the chart-making sector of our economy."
- Karoli
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