Monday, August 05, 2002

Christopher TaylorI found a bunch of long lost bios from theDial care of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine [here]. What's funny is that the "Internet Revolution" seems nostalgic to me now. I grabbed this picture from my old bio.
11:39:29 PM    


In response to the New York Times article "Trying to Elude the Google Grasp" one reader wrote [here]

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (www.archive.org/index.html) has been archiving Web sites since 1996. Web content, individual documents and other types of downloads that individuals thought were long gone can easily be located and "resuscitated." All you have to do is type in your favorite U.R.L and choose one of the dates offered.

I can't believe I've never heard of this thing. I decided to give it a try and went to see what the Wayback Machine had for the Internet Radio company I co-founded, theDial.com. To my astonishment, it had a bunch of our old content [here]. It doesn't have everything though. When it spiders the site, it doesn't appear to load some of the flash and JavaScript mouseovers, but I can live with that.
11:02:16 PM    


H1-B visas have been receiving extra scrutiny as of late. The current economic downturn has resulted in an all-time high unemployment rate for Electrical Engineers and other knowledge workers. A good number of jobs in this area are filled by foreign workers. ArsTechnica points to the story here.

The US government has chosen not to act until 2003. That is a wise stance considering the reactionary nature of the issue. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to tie the number of H1-B visas allowed in a given year to the employment rate in affected industries.
11:21:27 AM