First of all, hi to mperry. Welcome to Advogato! It was always a pleasure to work with you and who knows, maybe our professional paths will cross again in the future.
The stuff you’re doing with your iPAQ sounds very cool, but I wonder how much you must have spent on all of those accessories. I would love one of those things, but know that it wouldn’t stop at the initial cost of the unit itself. There would be the card expansion pack, the extra memory, etc. Life’s hard when you have to justify expenditure to your fiancée. Maybe I’ll reassess when the H3800 comes out. That looks like it will be a great unit.
Well, I spent some time configuring Apache last night and should be ready to make the switch to hosting www.caliban.org sooner rather than later. Hopefully, I’ll manage to grab some time today to start working on e-mail.
As a former employee of @Home Benelux, it comes as no big surprise to read about the chapter 11 filing of the US variant and shareholder. Management at that company was always in disarray, with a fatal unwillingness to listen to the wisdom of others.
More illuminating, though is this article on how the whole @Home/Excite merger was doomed from the start, with cynical executives and VCs looking for artificial ways to bump up the stock value so that big investors could cash in and bow out, without any care for the long term future of the business, its employees, its customers, or minor investors in its shares.
This is cynical big business at its worst, especially when one considers that those guilty have what I disaffectionately call resumé buoyancy. They’ve risen so high on the totem pole that they can just waltz into a similar position elsewhere and rape and pillage in the same fashion all over again. OK. that’s my Saturday morning rant out of the way. Time to go and do something useful now…