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Friday October 22, 1999

Joy! So most of you don’t know that I have resigned from Cisco. My last day will be October 22, 1999. As of that day my email address here will cease to work. Some of you will have some questions about what all of this means, so if you care to, read on: :: Why...

Come Together…

Nortel execs may not get stock options, but when it comes to other benefits, the sky’s the limit. 🙂 -Ian. — TURBULENCE (WRLD 8:35 am) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/22088.html Business class passengers on an American Airlines...

MCI To Buy Sprint In $129 Billion Deal

“Merge Or Die.” – Dennis Bell. -Ian. ============================================================================http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991005/bs/telecoms_sprint_12.html NEW YORK (Reuters) – MCI WorldCom Inc. (Nasdaq:WCOM –...

Separation and Kevin Bacon

That’s 5 Degrees. You’re OK. Anybody else? -Ian. Kelly Tompkins wrote:> > Ian: > > I am sorry, I was unaware of this rule. My girlfriend Reva has a Friend Koa > who is going out with Steven who is making a movie with yes you guessed in > Kevin. I will...

Separation and Kevin Bacon

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~salm/student/sdokb/ As you all know, one of the founding principles of this list is that no one fewer than three degrees of separation away from Kevin Bacon can be on this list. As it turns out, I almost ruled myself out with this...

La Cage Match Aux Folles

A good and hilarious analysis of Professional Wrestling and White America by huck [at] suck [dot] com. Very funny. The hypothesis here also applies well to white glam-metal bands like Guns & Roses and the mid-80s Van Halen. -Ian. —...

Is Rebeca on this List?

Maaan, she’s smart AND cute! HER homepage: http://www.bossanova.com/rebeca/ URL: http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19990925/news/current/rebecca.htx Tech stocks are overvalued And we like them that way By Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg, CBS MarketWatch Last Update:...

More tech stock bashing..

Ya gotta go read this puppy. —=— http://fnews.yahoo.com/street/99/09/24/wrong_990924.html Wrong! Sep 24, 1999 The Top 10 Internet Myths By James J. Cramer Editor’s note: James J. Cramer gave a speech at the Goldman Sachs International Tech conference...

Steve Ballmer’s Public Flogging Begins..

I watched in horror as I lost heaps of money last Thursday & Friday on my tech stocks. In case you missed it, the hottest story last week was Steve Ballmer essentially breaking the rules of the high-tech stock market by ack- nowledging in public how crazy our...

AOL Geek of the Week

Has anyone submitted RJ Sharkey to: http://www.cascadia.net/~dogman/geeks/ -Ian.