Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Guilty, guilty, guilty! Sure to be appealed: Jury convicts WorldCom's Ebbers. A jury has convicted former WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers of all counts in his criminal fraud trial Tuesday. [USATODAY.com News - Top Stories] Funny thing about today's overpaid CEO's: they cry about needing megabucks to compensate them for the tremendous risks of running big companies, but when it comes to accepting the consequences of bad decisions they get all whiny. Come on, folks: you got the big bucks because there's always the risk of going to prison for doing something really dumb. 8:24:28 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

New book on my reading stack I've read much of Alan Lightman's previous works, including Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis. I'm looking forward to reading his new collection of essays: Lightman Book. I wanted to put a good word in for Alan Lightman's new book A Sense of the Mysterious. Its a collection of essays hes written over the last several ... By David Appell. [Technology Review RSS Blog Feed] It's right there on the top of my to-be-read stack, next to M.G. Lord's Astro Turf, an examination of life at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and its impact on employees' families. My dad worked there, right out of college at Caltech, way back when they were developing and testing missiles for the Army under the guidance of Werner von Braun. Possibly apocryphal story: it was called Jet Propulsion Laboratory because it was thought that if the neighbors (it's in Pasadena) knew the engineers were building and testing rockets they might get worried. 8:03:37 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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