After doing the volte-face about WPMU, I remerged the entire blogs I had set up back into this one. However, for some weird reason a number of critical posts went missing. I still have no idea why. And I nearly lost some great posts for ever when I removed the Database, too. Still all was saved by Dreamhost not empting there trashcan on time! For that I’m very thankful. I recovered a dozen or so great posts. But to import them back to this blog, I had to publish them all. Hence yesterday’s feed blast from the past! Do check them out! Apologies if you got too much junk. Next time, I’ll disable the feed.
Newsbites
So they still want their bonuses…!
“(Liddy) told Geithner that some bonus payments are binding legal obligations of the company, and “there are serious legal, as well as business consequences for not paying.”
In wonder how much the staff would have got if the company had declared Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Since the govt. bailed them out, I can’t see how these bonus claims have any merit. They’d have got NOTHING if the company had gone to the wall as it deserved.
After all, the stock is less than $1.00 so the company is in effect bankrupt anyway. Its debt obligations were so numerous that the government HAD to bail them out to stop the economy falling apart. So I can’t see how anyone can in good heart claim any thing from them. Really, you earned that… Come on!
Book of the Weekend: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
This is the book I bought at the weekend. It’s an interesting read and Gladwell makes his argument clearly: “Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, “some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky”.”
Check out the review on Amazon to see what it’s like.