Seems as if Dick Cheney, fearless co-leader of the US, is being sued for artificially boosting stock prices while he was CEO of Halliburton. This follows on the SEC’s investigation of Halliburton’s accounting practices. Not surprising – Halliburton’s accounting firm was Anderson. I worked for Sierra Geophysics, a subsidiary of Halliburton in Seattle. SG was great. Halliburton […]
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Mark Pilgrim’s tip for today Providing text equivalents for images is one of the few tips that I do follow, or at least attempt for follow. All of the images in this weblog should have a text equivalent.
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Touching the Untouchable
At what level of discourse will I step over the boundary of comfort? I came close with the postings on anger, but thankfully, we were able to box these in with an objectively intellectual viewpoint that pushed the topic safely and correctly back into manageable bounds. So now, let us up the ante on human […]
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Dorothea revealed
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea takes a moment and tells the world about herself, her husband, and her goth kitties in a new Frank Paynter interview, a blogging piece well worth the read. Among the broad range of subjects covered in the interview was Dorothea’s experience with gaming and role playing, as well as her academic […]
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How can we not be angry?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today was not supposed to be an ‘angry’ day. I thought we’d covered the subject and were ready to move on. But then I checked the news. I read that the “earth is dying” (mentioned in previous weblog posting). And then I read: Bush rejected comparisons between the transactions that masked […]