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Re: executive salaries

There’s actually a boy from BURNABY on the list below: Cash Options Gain Total Annual Don A. Mattrick Div President , 816,316 1,470,157 2,286,473 Electronic Arts -Ian. At 09:07 AM 20/06/00 -0400, John Klassa wrote: >”Riding high with stock...

Irony in Photography

Lately I’ve been taking a lot of photos of ironic or quizzical signs and sights around the U.S. of A. as I come across them. My friend Hartley does this a lot too.. Somebody recently sent me a bunch of photos taken in Namibia.. I put them online at:...

Fwd: [Inter@ctive Week] WAP! Or thud

>Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:48:41 -0400 >From: Linda >Organization: @Home Network >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-AtHome0404 (Win98; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: FoRK >Subject: [Inter@ctive Week] WAP! Or thud >...

An Interesting But Potentially Really Bad Idea..

So the DOJ is about to split Microsoft into, basically, two bits. Applications and OS. The result will have transpired by October. Here is an interesting idea: – What if the DOJ had decided to force MS to make Windows 2000 Open Source and then to release it to...

Re: Microsoft, B.C.

Interestingly, if MSFT moves to Vancouver it may become a whole lot harder to retain development/engineering talent in the area in the short term. This will deeply hurt the startup community that is just barely getting going there, I think. Long term, it could be...

Fwd: [Red Herring] Microsoft is calling you

As with everything else, Microsoft is still pursuing a strategy to embed all communications into the desktop PC. This will be their undoing. PC-based communications management is errant as a go-to-market strategy, doing ANYTHING on the PC (especially with Windows and...

FashionMall.com buys Boo.com

Some quick math: Cash Raised: $135 million Cash on Hand 5/15: $743,400 Debt on 5/15: $25 million Sales FY 99 and FY 00: $4 million Sale of Intellectual Property: $375,000 Sale of Core Assets: $(2 million maybe?)...

Fwd: 40X five year email volume growth

>X-Sender: rohit [at] 128.195.1 [dot] 70 (Unverified) >Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:10:35 -0700 >To: FoRK [at] xent [dot] com >From: Rohit Khare >Subject: 40X five year email volume growth > > >* Drowning In Email Success? — That could be what’s in store for...

Land Rover Defender 90s Are Coming Back to North America

Phew! I almost bought one this week for $39,000. They used to sell brand new for under $30,000 in the US but since they stopped importing them in 1997 they’ve become collector’s items. Looks like the bottom will be dropping out of the used D-90 market...

Rethinking the Economics of Immigration

>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:52:28 -0700 >To: FoRK >Subject: [NYT] Rethinking the Economics of Immigration > >One of the best articles about immigration, H1B, and Greencards that I have >seen in a long time. > >-Joe >...