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We managed to convince VCs to give us money but we haven’t convinced any actual customers to do so.

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• Top Ten Lies of Engineers
• Top Ten Lies of VCs

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The Kaiser Chiefs have a new album out called "The Future Is Medieval" Their web site lets users make custom versions of the album by choosing tracks and designing the cover. My version is at the above link. It's a cool idea. Wonder if it will increase sales...

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If you're building native extensions for python or ruby on a Mac and you get an error like:

no suitable image found

It probably means the language and extension were compiled for different architectures, i.e. 32-bit vs 64-bit or i386 vs x86_64. I use fink on the Mac and it defaults to compiling 32-bit versions. You can tell fink to default to 64-bit when you do an initial install from source but it's not as well tested as 32-bit and 32-bit works fine so why bother? However, 10.6, left to its own devices, will compile code to 64-bit versions. So…

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So I'm returned to a full set of front teeth. Early Christmas. Abutment is screwed into the implant and crown is stuck on top. This is the last teeth related post for a while.

This was all done at DDS Dental Care in Shanghai. We've been going there for years. If you're looking for a dentist in Shanghai they're my recommendation.

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At last all the social media BS can be revealed with a site called What The F... Is My Social Media Strategy which will generate your strategy for you. See example gem below. So you no longer need to hire over-paid pseudo long haired time wasting consultants to define your strategy for you. Joy.

"Facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currency"

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Elegance in fiagiance.

Guijin shop corner of Huaihai and Maoming.

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The Big Picture has some good pics from the effort to clean up the oil spill in Dalian.

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WELCO ME

Art gallery Wukang Lu Shanghai.

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Apple's first store in Shanghai has opened in Pudong in the IFC Mall. All praise the Steve. We took a quick gander the other night. It was packed. "Genius" bar was full too. It is conveniently just round the corner from City Super (quality supermarket from Hong Kong, also newly opened, hey the IFC has only just opened its doors, everything is newly opened in Shanghai.) So, you can visit the Apple Store for some quality tech produce then pop to City Super for quality groceries and baking produce. Mall-tastic heaven.

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So after about 4 months I went back to the dentist. He bascially screwed a screw into the implant which will act like a spacer for the tissue to grow around. Creating space where the crown will be placed. In a couple of weeks should have a tooth again.

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