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First Day @ PUSH 2008
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I'm speaking tomorrow at PUSH, an interesting conference here in Minneapolis, MN

The first session that just wrapped up was quite interesting - Chandran Nair took us through a look at the world's problems and how many misconceptions there are about what can solve them. What I found striking was the comparison of world problems to spending on trivial/much less meaningful things:

Health & Nutrition ($13B) : Petfood Spending in the USA ($17B)
Water and Sanitation ($9B) : Ice Cream in Europe ($11B)
Education ($6B) : Cosmetics in the USA ($8B)

Jonathan Greenblatt, one of the co-founders of Ethos Water, also gave us a compelling look into the world of Water and how simple and cheap ($25/person) it is to solve. The one thing I don't get - on a $1.79 bottle of water, Starbucks (which acquired Ethos) donates 5 cents (10 cents in Canada oddly). They were founded on the basis of donating 50% of profits... I can't believe profit on that bottle of water is only 10 cents! (considering how much cheaper other bottled water is). Anyway, he now works with a new magazine - GOOD - which has a unique subscription model of giving away the $20 subscription fee to a charity of your choice.

June 16, 2008 | 11:49 AM Comments  1 comments

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We are the ones
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How can this not inspire you with hope that the messages that captivate our friends in the U.S. voting this fall can be positive and not just negative? Messages that excite with the possibility of a positive future, not try to cast fear and uncertainty as the reason to select a person.



I'm very proud of them for ending the video with the simple message of "vote" - resisting the urge to squeeze it beyond need towards the candidate.

May 12, 2008 | 2:59 AM Comments  3 comments



Fresh format of a Dell m1330: Solving Vista Install Issues Tutorial
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My apologies for this very geek-specific post. If you don't have a Dell m1330 laptop, you can ignore it!

My Dell XPS m1330 is my favorite laptop yet (I think it's my 10th in 10 years!), but Dell and Microsoft have made it far too hard to re-format it cleanly without Windows Vista Blue-screening on every second boot (caused by the AHCI setting in BIOS, but not providing AHCI drivers during install). It took me awhile to figure out how to do this properly, so I thought I'd share to help the rest of the Internet figure it out.

1) You have to download these drivers from Intel:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=2101&DwnldID=14848&strOSs=150&OSFullName=WindowsVista*64&lang=eng

2) Run the file with a "-a" from the Windows commandline, which will put those files into the "C:Program FilesIntelIntel Matrix Storage Manager" directory

3) Copy the files from the "Drivers" or "Drivers64" (64-bit Vista) directory onto a USB Key

4) When you install Vista from the DVD, pick the "Custom" option, then click "Load Drivers"

5) Click "Browse", and point to your USB stick. Load the drivers from it.

6) Oops! You may then get a strange error "windows could not determine if this computer contains a valid system volume" -- you'll need to change a setting in your bios to disable USB booting which you can-reenable later (More info: http://www.dashken.net/index.php?/archives/204-Windows-could-not-determine-if-this-computer-contains-a-valid-system-volume.html) This happened to me this time, but not the last time I did this.

And then you'll be on your way. This kind of step-by-step would have saved me hours, so I hope it'll help others too!

P.S. I'd highly recommend a 64-bit install - you can get excellent help for this here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=158277

May 5, 2008 | 3:37 PM Comments  3 comments

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