Jun
30
2002
Decisions, decisions. I would like to update my Linux PC but it’s maxed out hardware-wise. That means new hardware, but now that Apple’s OS X is maturing, I can get a G4 with it and still enjoy the benefits of opensource. Must. Decide. Carefully.
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Jun
28
2002
Sometimes blogging has it’s downside.
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Jun
27
2002
I’m not currently a practicing Catholic, though not a day goes by when I don’t think about such things. So I read Relapsed Catholic, Kathy Shaidle’s weblog every day, and while it’s not gotten me to clean up my religious act, it’s certainly full of interesting links about religious issues that you won’t find anywhere else.
There aren’t a lot of conservative voices in the blog world, at least that I know of, and while I don’t consider myself conservative (or liberal for that matter), I look to those who force me to think.Which is why I recommend you read Relapsed Catholic, no matter what your beliefs. It’s important to know why you believe something, questioning may not change anyrhing, but then you at least know the reason why.
Kathy is also a writer and commentator, check her site out for her books and TV appearances. Oh, by the way, she’s Canadian, if you wonder why she seems to look at the US from the outside in.
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Jun
27
2002
ComputerWorld reports that IT job growth was stagnant in ’01 and uncertain in ’02, which should surprise no one. Given the recent spate of business’s admitting their results were fiction, I can’t for the life of me see how anyone could say the recession has bottomed out. I think we’re still riding the bad boy to the basement.
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Jun
26
2002
No one is perfect. We all make mistakes, nothing new about that concept. Corporations make mistakes (New Coke anyone?) but they don’t make them very often, or at least they used to not make them very often. One of the reasons that corporations used to make fewer mistakes was because there were multiple people doing things and errors tended to get caught or at worst averaged in. Of course, that assumed that on the whole, people didn’t want to do bad work and didn’t want others to do it either. Ha ha, antiquated thinking, eh? Because now we have companies like WorldCom which announced $3.8B in accounting errors and will be, among other things, laying off 17,000 employees.
Companies like WorldCom have created a new corporate culture where thievery and deceit are the norm and nothing is more important than telling Wall Street good news. No one raises their hand and no one tries to change things. Auditors are hired by the accounting firms they will be auditing and just continue the falsehoods because no smart company bites the hand that feeds it.
Ask yourself this question: “Who is looking out for the people (investors, employees, etc.)?” You might not like the answer.
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Jun
26
2002
Into mobile phones and technology? Checkout HowardChui.com, a site full of news and reviews. I’ve added it to my bookmarks, since I will be in the market to buy another, sooner or later. My boss just got a new phone, and all of a sudden my StarTac looks old fashioned
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