More Radio Internals - Today I added links to discussion at the bottom of every item, hosted by Yahoo groups. And I added a permalink icon that takes you to the archive page and the appropriate story. The thing I am finding most fascinating about this is that my entire blog is static […]
How Did That Happen? - Got invited to a meeting today. It was a subject about which I have strong opinions, so I went. After making a number of suggestions about what I think should happen, I realized I was the only PM in the room, and suddenly … I have another project […]
Stupid Day: Relying on Pundits - Funny story: One day a reporter working on a book about “success secrets” approached Aristotle Onassis and asked him to offer some advice to others wishing to become as successful as Onassis. Onassis replied that he sure as heck didn’t become successful by reading books about how other […]
Stupid Day: Displacing Blame - Oracle’s story was one of the more amazing of the past week. Oracle announced terrible earnings, when they had been predicting hearty earnings to the analysts just a week before. Larry Ellison cashed out nearly a billion dollars of Oracle stock before realizing that their earnings forecasts were […]
Stupid Day: Gambling with Borrowed Cash - Many day-traders admit that daily stock-trading is similar to gambling. There is nothing illegal or even distasteful about speculating with your own money. But when the CEO of an otherwise stellar company gambles away his shareholder’s cash on the Internet bubble, “stupid” seems appropriate. Compaq […]