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Friday, January 18, 2002 |
...to my friends
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
-- Winnie the Pooh
11:26:33 PM 
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Enron's Lay Hypes Stock in September
Chairman Kenneth Lay told employees the company's stock was "an incredible bargain" on Sept. 26 -- only weeks before Enron fell apart and its stock price plunged, according to a transcript of an Enron intranet chat site obtained by Reuters on Friday. [Reuters]
...and the story just gets better and better...what a guy...what a hero...just rallying the troops...he did this, while he and other executives were selling off their shares...mj
10:50:23 PM
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Thousands of Linux users threaten suicide
AOL is in negotiations to buy Red Hat. You can hear the swearing and screaming all over the world. This would have to be a geeks worst nightmare. I bet Doc Searls would slit his wrist over this one (just kidding doc)...of course this could be the stepping stone to push Linux out of geekdom and onto the desktop of Aunt Petunia...mj
10:31:12 PM
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24 rocks!!
If you have not seen 24, you should...it is the most incredible...tense hour of TV that I have ever seen...it simply drags you screaming from hour to hour...mj
10:12:10 PM
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Stand-off on the roof of the world
Pakistan claims Kashmir; India claims it too. The voices of Kashmiris themselves are hardest to hear. [Economist]
...great article that lays out the history of the conflict. Facinating reading on an area of the world that most people know kothing about...two nations with the ability to kill millions...mj
9:38:30 PM
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Printing errors
A judge has ruled that fingerprint evidence is scientifically unreliable. [Economist]
...having spent several years working around the Biometrics industry, I have to say that this ruling has the potential to shake the industry. It's bad news, the worst kind of news...then again it could just get overturned...mj
7:55:35 PM
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Drew Barrymore's revisionist history
Spielberg's retrofitting of "E.T." opens the door to an untapped revenue stream that promises a product placement bonanza! [Salon.com]
...angery, must control finger of death...i had to read this twice to have it sink in...this is freakin' nuts...let's go back and make sure that Old Yeller didn't die...perhaps we could have Maximus live and save Rome...we could skip that whole cross scene in Ben Hur...maybe Debra Winger could live in "Terms"...so many inconvenient scenes that we could digitally 'improve'...screw the whole idea...if this is true, then I am very dissapointed with Spielberg...mj
7:11:30 PM
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Enron Chief Puts Properties on Sale
The embattle chairman of Enron Corp. has put three of his four Aspen properties up for sale, asking a total of more than $15 million. [Las Vegas Sun]
...he's going to need all that money...lawyers are expensive. Of course the second scandal in this whole mess is how much money lawyers are going to make...mj
9:44:47 AM
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Campaign Gifts, Lobbying Built Enron's Power In Washington
During the administration of the first President George Bush, a new party fundraiser named Kenneth L. Lay was invited to spend the night at the White House. The sleepover was an early coup for the chairman of Enron Corp. and a harbinger of things to come.
[Washington Post]
...no matter how you look at this thing, it smells. I wonder if he slept in the Lincoln bedroom [ironic music at this point].
Four things need to come out of this mess...1. The executives need to lose the money they got at the expense of all the shareholders [jail time would be nice]...2. Arthur Andersen needs to be put out of business as an object lesson to the industry [jail time would be nice]...3. Serious campaign financing reform needs to occur [jail time would be nice]...4. Reform the accounting and auditing practices [jail time would be nice]...mj
9:14:02 AM
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Death to CD copy protection
Philips moves to put 'poison' label on protected audio CDs. Not CDs at all, sniffs company... [The Register]
...let's all say this together...COPY PROTECTION IS EVIL! I would like to applaud Phillips for stating the obvious. Copy protection schemes do not meet the Red Book Audio spec for CDs.
I simply refuse to buy CDs that I can not choose to rip for MY OWN use. Until the industry wakes up and smells the coffee they will continue to lose customers. Besides...this crap always get cracked..why waste our time when it just attacks the symptoms. Then again, solving the problem would require that the industry wake up to its own problems...mj
8:41:03 AM
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PC shipments shrink; Dell keeps growing
Computer shipments decline for the second time in the industry's history, though Dell Computer and the Asian market continue to expand their influence. [CNET News]
...i am not a fan of Dell. I think they are ruining the industry. There is no design, packaging, or parts innovation from Dell. They are a parasite. They suck ideas off other companies and then turn them into a commodity. This is killing the industry as they suck the profits, and the life out of the rest of the industry.
The problem is...what's left once Dell manages to to complete it's mission? Not much...then again, what is the rest of the industry doing about it? Near as I can tell they are trying to out Dell them...sorry, you will lose at that game. Try something different...think different...mj
8:28:01 AM
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