WorldCom Layoffs
CNN’s main story at the moment is about the WorldCom layoffs that start today. 17k people.
Archive | June, 2002
Movabletype
I’ve upgraded to Movabletype 2.2, which was just released yesterday. jarango.com does not use a MySQL backend, so the biggest benefit we’ll get from this upgrade is in syndication and category management.
Gnome 2.0 Released
Gnome 2.0 has been released. I have not booted into my Linux partition much lately, and when I do it’s using KDE 3.0. Still, I’m curious. Some of the screenshots look really good. Full antialiasing and alpha channels against backgrounds. The changelog also states that the usability and consistency of apps is much improved. I’m really tempted to download it to kick around for a while…
(On the other hand, I might just wait for it to be release as an RPM for SuSE 7.3. I’m not lazy… I just have better things to do at the moment.)
Write Your Name On An Asteroid
I have found what I want for my birthday. (Not really. I want the top-of-the-line Powerbook. Pleeease!)
Corporate Greed
Enron. WorldCom. Who’s next? Does anyone have any doubt that there are countless other major corporations fiddling around with their numbers?
Who’s getting screwed? I think we are. The economy is a disaster. More people are losing their jobs every day. In the meantime, upper management is doing all they can legally (and otherwise) to keep their companies “profitable”. It’s very clear that lying has become (has been all along?) a standard business practice in the “dog-eat-dog” marketplace.
Does it have to be this way? I don’t think so. I keep hoping we’ll come out of the wave of scandals with a newfound respect for ethical behavior. On the other hand, respect and ethics are seemingly incompatible with the ruthless “natural” selection of the open market. A couple of CFOs and CEOs need to do hard time. And it won’t hurt either if corporations start being investigated before they get in trouble.
