Mission Accomplished

alternateorg on June 10, 2001

Yay! Avs! #1! And Ray Bourque finally got to touch the cup after 22 years in the NHL. And people rioted in downtown Denver. Not unlike our few Super Bowl wins. Wonderful.

Just a telnet away…

alternateorg on June 9, 2001

Damn, this is fucking scary… basically, a couple of hackers got within a machine or two of the computers that control the flow of electricity across the state of California.

Great, thats just great… Now we get to enjoy our random black outs along with hacked power supplies that surge and pules and … argh… whatever, fuck California.


Oh yeah, and fuck Gov. Gray Davis too…

A kitty in a tree. Yup. Genius.

alternateorg on June 9, 2001

So Kottke thinks that Noah Grey (developer of GreyMatter, the CGI-based blog-system) is a genius because (among other things) of these pictures. Now, I’m not putting GreyMatter down, and I’m sure he’s a great programmer, but pictures of kitties in trees? Something a little short of genius, in my book. Sounds like pretention, to me.

Wow. A Mac Virus.

alternateorg on June 8, 2001

A Mac-based Outlook virus has sprung up. So it’s still Microsoft-reliant, but instead of VBScript, it’s written in AppleScript. So don’t run crazy AppleScripts you get in an email. Or use Eudora or MailSmith. I’m pretty sure the Mac versions won’t open files automatically, so just don’t open a file if you get it in some email about The Simpsons. The ‘virus’ will attack both Outlook Express and Entourage, and no word yet if it works in the beta releases of Outlook:mac 2001. My guess is ‘yes.’

Four – Zip

alternateorg on June 7, 2001

Go Avs! I don’t ‘woo-hoo’ much, but WooHoo! Four to nothing, wow. Pretty sweet game, if you’re an Avalanche fan (as most of us in Colorado tend to be). It’s too bad the final game isn’t in New Jersey… We just can’t seem to win at home.

crucial

alternateorg on June 7, 2001

This is why we all bought computers and shell out monthly for Internet connections.

I have shopped at WalMart once. I should have saved my receipt and scanned it for everyone to see.

PG&BS

alternateorg on June 5, 2001

This is outrageous. PG&E filed with a federal court on Friday, asking for approval to double their 226 top executives’ pay, totalling $17.5 million in ADDITIONAL payouts. So they’re rewarding and trying to keep the very same people that drove them into bankruptcy. For the first time in my life, I’m glad I don’t live in California anymore. Fucking corporations. Did you see that number? 226 top executives. Not even all, and there’s over 200. Link via SVN.


The payouts would be on top of the $50 million in bonuses and raises awarded just before PG&E’s April 6 bankruptcy filing. The utility argued then, as well, that the money was necessary to keep senior managers from leaving.

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Glynn, chairman of both the parent company and the utility, was forced to get by with a raise of $100,000, bringing his total annual salary to $900,000. In 1999, he earned $800,000 in salary and $1.2 million in bonuses.

Ah, poor Mr. CEO. Only a 900 grand salary? What must your country-club attending friends think? I’m sure the payments on that Mercedes or BMW or Jaguar you drive are even harder to make now!