How to get ahead in business?

From an online class for a CPA Ethics test, forwarded by Miss Monica. A January 1995 article in the California Management Review, “A View from the Trenches”, interviewed 30 recent Harvard MBA graduates. Among their comments: Organizational pressures, not character flaws, lead…

Who knew?

Among other sites, I’m webmaster for the ViridianRepository, a site of contest entries for Viridian Design, a design movement about stopping global warming. Seems aboveground and straightforward enough, right? Not according to a member trying to access the site… Received the following…

More on AutoLink

From Dave Winer at Scripting News. He was instrumental in the creation of blogs and podcasting and is leading the charge against Google AutoLink. We noticed that Google’s AdLink is US only. And now we have a good idea why. Copyright law in…

When Good Search Engines Go Bad

Is Google’s new AutoLink a force for evil? Has Google turned evil? Web pundit Dave Winer calls the search behemoth’s new AutoLink feature “the first step down a treacherous slope that could spell the end of the Web.” ZDNet’s Steve…

Norway’s glaciers shrink a 4th year on warm summer

The shrinking icecaps are part of a global trend caused by global warming during the past century, Liss Marie Edvardsen, a senior engineer at the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, said in a telephone interview today. “Some glaciers have…

U.S. must address global warming says James Baker!

Former Secretary of State James Baker, a close ally of the Bush family, broke ranks with the Bush administration on Thursday and called for the United States to get serious about global warming. Finally, a split in the neocon elite…

Martin Niemoller alert

From Left i on the News This time they’re not coming for you; will you speak up before they do? The Dept. of Homeland Insecurity is “is experimenting with a controversial new method to keep better track of immigrants who…