Hold down [Enter] and [Mode] while quickly pressing the [Power] button (DO NOT HOLD THE POWER BUTTON, just a quick press).

Continue to hold enter and mode for a few more seconds.

You should see the screen barely flicker on when you push power, and then nothing else should happen until you release the enter and mode buttons.

After you release the buttons, your unit should power up and go through the initialization screens.

Since this can be a difficult sequence to do, it is best to keep trying a few times if it doesn’t work at first.

This worked for me and I didn’t have to reset the unit. Looking at the Garmin forums a lot of people are having this issue after a first charge.

Unit not responding to Button Presses?
Say it’s on but it won’t respond to presses, press [Mode] and [Lap] simultaneously to reset the unit.

What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of ‘normal’ can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.

Do not put a Kindle on a Backpack together with a laptop and an SLR Camera

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Update (October 19th 2011): +Colin Noller and Amazon support Rock! They’re sending me a new Kindle today. Thank you Colin for letting me know that Amazon support was so awesome. I’ve just saved over $100 thanks to your comment on this post.

If you have issues with your Kindle call 1-866-321-8851 and press “3″. Representatives are nice, smart and reasonable. Also didn’t have to wait to be taken care of, they got it down.
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The hardcover wasn’t enough to protect the screen, and now here I am, broken hearted.

Kindle 120pts : Paper Books 2pts (more durable, no batteries required)

So I guess now I have an excuse to try the Kindle Touch.
I’ll def. be more careful with it, would’ve never imagined my kindle would’ve broken inside my backpack, and with a hard cover in it. You live, you learn, you open broken kindle to see what it has inside. If I see interesting stuff inside it I’ll post pictures.

I just wanted to say that I have high hopes for the impact of this Stanford initiative.

AI is one powerful discipline of computer science, one that many software engineers never experience first hand (this will be my chance to formally do AI for the first time, and I’ve been doing this almost 10 years now).

Personally I’m going to puke the next time I hear about another social oriented project coming out. We already have a sound Social Layer on the web, now it’s time to build amazing stuff on top of it.

The big guys of the internet do have a lot of AI and machine learning powering their services (I’d like to think that Facebook uses a lot of machine learning in lots of their products, pictures, the feed, ad displaying, etc.)

So, I truly hope that out of the 85,000+ people that signed up to the AI and ML courses, at least 1,000 will use the knowledge to build the next generation of AI/ML powered internet services.

I hope to be able to have the time and discipline to finish the course and come out with a lot more of understanding on these subjects, I certainly have lots of ideas on what I could do with AI and ML, and the future looks really exciting.

AI is going to leave a lot of people unemployed (it can already do so many jobs a lot better than humans), hopefully programmers will be among the last of them :)

Let’s see what comes out of this.

With every major update of Facebook’s experience they reveal little by little how creepy they are, because instead of looking at the things users need, each release just shows (no matter how pretty they make it) that they’re after nothing but the things that can be told to their advertisers about you, plain and simple. It’s not a social network, it’s a living marketing survey.

All along they were parsing whatever it is that we talk about, but it seems they need to get more efficient at it, their solution? Make the user click on drop downs that describe those things advertisers have to bid the highest Cost Per Click for.

This image explains better what I mean

Go Zuckerberg! Nice try, not buying the timeline crap over here. Google+ gets better and better.

Follow the geek.

The 2 most fundamental features missing in Google+ (and I don’t know how else to send them feedback about this) that really really grind my gears are the lack of a +1 button and a “Share” link on the picture gallery mode.

I think that this has to be totally on purpose, I cannot believe that all the “geniuses” at Google haven’t felt the frustration of not being able to +1 or share a good picture from that view.

CEOs or Google+ project managers should be more involved in product experience. It’s cool how they are very data driven, but damn it guys, sit and use the product yourselves, or have you never used a social network before.

It’s just very hypocritical of Google to say that this is a service created to help people share, when sometimes it gets in your way of sharing at the very moment when you feel like sharing something with others.

And you wonder why they still haven’t opened the gates? It’s still far from ready to be used by the mainstream user.

What other fundamental features do you think are missing?

Yes, a lot of people are all about the cloud and everything should be in the browser, but the reality is that there’s a very healthy (and still growing) ecosystem of desktop software being created, and updated everyday.

More so, the browser is still limited and it seems that we’re bending over backwards (in javascript of all languages #facepalming) to be able to do what we’ve been already been able to do for years inside it. It’s like we want to throw away the powerful hardware now available on the tip of our hands (ever faster multicore technology, super duper video cards, amazing storage for almost nothing, solid state drives, you name it, we’re getting it, and it’s gonna get better in 18 months)… for the promise of the cloud (which is convenient, but you should try living without internet at home for 3 weeks, fuck the cloud).

A few moments ago I was thinking about this and about Google’s vision of “everything inside the browser” and then it hit me.

Our industry is full of disruption, who would’ve thought that web browsers would get so big and create whole new industries, can’t the same happen to the browser?

I think it’s totally possible that some new software, some new Desktop software could emerge and change the face of the internet once again. I don’t know what it could be, but after seeing how things evolve it’s plausible something like this happens.

Google shouldn’t be putting all its eggs on the browser basket.

Desktop software is here to stay, and it has all the powers today to out-innovate the browser, as crazy as it sounds.

Maybe a well done Microsoft App store would be enough to get a lot of people excited. By looking at what’s happened in such a short time for iOS and the Apple AppStore, the browser has plenty to fear.