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I am sorry, but this disgusts me. She fires 15,000 people, brings down HP, gets fired, and gets a windfall! Everyone else I know who gets fired or “asked to step down” gets squat. [More here]
These positions entail a high-degree of risk — C-Level execs better start accepting risk as a component of their packages. Why should I join your company and take a chance myself, if you (Mr. CEO, Ms. CFO, etc.) aren’t taking one yourself?
I am already exposed enough, being an “enemy” alien in the US (I know I’m Canadian, but they sure don’t treat me like a neighbour), so what makes me motivated to join a company where I will lose everything and get kicked out of the country, and the CEO makes millions, if the company fails.

Russell Beattie has 400 pending Email messages. [here]
I have heard other bloggers complain of this as well. [here and here and here]
I can’t remember a time when I have received more than 5 Emails in a single day. Most of those are automated server messages telling me when backups are complete, etc.
I’m not complaining. I remember when I worked in Tech Support (before the Ticketing System was installed) that my inbox was always full. But I learned quickly how to delegate, reply succinctly, and be verbose when the situation demanded it.
I know I don’t get 100,000+ visits a day, and have adoring fans and vitriolic enemies, but to have an Email backlog like that is truly astounding.

Hakon Lie, CEO of Opera, nails Bill Gates to the wall using his own claim to support interoperability. [here]
This is a brilliant rant on Microsoft and they’re lack of support (or half-baked attempt to support) Web Standards initiatives. MSIE is a six-year old engine, groaning under the weight of it’s own bloated code. Lightweight “skin” browsers using the MSIE engine can’t, and shouldn’t, save it.
I can’t wait to see MSIE 7, because no one is going to wait for Longhorn. By Longhorn MSIE’s market-share will have dropped below 50%.
Collaborate or die.

Hakon Lie Apparently said the same thing directly to Scoble. [here]
A more complete commentary here.

Guess that someone has figured out that AdSense will pay big dollars for Asbestos click-throughs. [here]
Guess everyone is getting rich except Halliburton and WR Grace.

I have a bunch of client visits in the Bay Area on March 2-3. Looking forward to being back on my old stomping grounds…Pancho Villa Tacqueria!

Yahoo Search Blog has a great posting on how the Slurp Bot tries to conserve bandwidth by making use of compression and cache-control headers. [here]
As a Web performance fanatic, it is heartening to see that these folks have taken such care, and put such thought into their indexing crawler. They want it to be accurate, but they don’t want to slam your site.
A while back, I had to write a robots.txt file for WebPerformance to keep the MSNBot from stomping the site on a daily basis. This site uses frames and query variables to produce the various performance graphs. Well, the MSNBot was indexing every page and every variation almost daily. Finally, I said go away, just to that crawler. All the others are fine. Maybe MSN Search should take a page from the Yahoo! (Inktomi) Bot development team.

BL Ochman has her comments here. Her comments on the blogging pundits/evangelists/wild-eyed fanatics at the end of the article. Sort of the same way I feel about PodCasting.
The Head Lemur also makes a brief, yet sarcastic note of this…
Maybe I should read the original now…

Dave Winer posted this about a cool app called Feeder.
Got all excited. Went to the site.
App runs on Macs only.
Crushed.
Once again, foiled by not having a cool computer.

Prince Charles, heir the British throne, will be marrying his companion, Camilla Park er Bowles in early April. [here]
Why do I care? Well, I am a citizen of the Commonwealth, so I still great affection for the British monarchy. But as well, Charles and I have this odd tie — we were born on the same day, twenty years apart.
So every day, on my birthday, I raise my glass and drink a toast to the Prince of Wales.
And I will do the same on April 8.

Yesterday, I received some major kudos on a project that I developed for my personal Web site about 2 years ago. It sucked about 3 weeks of my time during a lull at work, and I got to learn a lot of very cool things.
When I was contacted yesterday, there was also some discussion that this little side-project helped resolve a large roadblock that this person was encountering in a project that they were working on with a tight deadline. The writer also could not believe that I was giving this information away for free, given the amount of time and resources that this very knowledgeable person had invested in finding the information, before he found my site.
It is always good to get positive feedback on something you have done out of personal interest. It motivated me to go back and re-examine this project and see how I could improve it further.
THank you.