This due to decreased production in their monster Cantrell field. They say it could be for up to two years, but given that Cantrell is in decline, it’s difficult to see how production will ever return to what it was, something which will have profound impact upon both the US and Mexico.

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Left Click brings news of the excellent redesign of the Socialist Worker site with many new features (including RSS) and a varied mix of articles and opinion.

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The Labour Party got clobbered in the recent election there, Ken Livingstone is no longer mayor of London, and the far-Right BNP picked up a seat. The Left dissects the blunders of the Labour Party (which are remarkably similar to those of the Democratic Party) and plans how to respond.

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Even Mormon food banks are running out of supplies while Wal-Mart is already limiting purchases of rice. Some of this has to be due to cropland being used to grow biofuel instead of food, thus limiting supply.

Biofuel can be made from a multitude of non-food crop sources. Crop land needs to be reserved for growing food, not fuel stock.

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Which is what I predicted yesterday on my personal blog.

This, I think, shows Microsoft clearly to be a company in decline. They no longer are the Borg (and haven’t been referred to as such for years now, for that matter.) That they couldn’t pull this off shows them to be clumsy - and most importantly - a company other companies don’t want to be part of, a far cry indeed from the Microsoft of old.

What will happen to Yahoo? They certainly showed fight and determination here. They need to do the same with the multitude of sites and services. Many are quite excellent, but it is Google that is giving both companies the jitters.

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