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I recieved the following email from Darryl Peck, CEO of OutPost.Com. They are an online computer hardware vendor that has been loosing millions of dollars due to there free shipping rates and 24 hour service. Personally, I don’t know why they started it in the first place. Yeah, it is a great idea, but a stupid one as far as business decisions go. Click “Read More” to view the email. If only they would have listened to me sooner.
I personally think this is funny as heck. Hmm, let’s see. When Red Hat filed its IPO in 1999, the stock market went crazy and people became millionaires over night (meaning the people that work there). I call it funny money and a lot of stupidity. I mean come on, anyone that buys a share of stock at $150.00 on a company that has only been selling about 3 Million dollars worth of software a year has got to be STUPID!
A security hole with Ameritech’s E-bill online bill payment system was discovered today by Tap Internet, a web services firm in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you send an ICQ message? Well I bet Efront wished they would have read the fine print before using ICQ. Apparently a lot of internal messages were sent back and forth from the CEO using ICQ. Since ICQ logs all of its messages (by default) all of the CEO’s messages were saved. Magically, these logs appeared on the web (how has not been confirmed) and it is has turned into a huge corporate nightmare. Read the complete story on Yahoo.
ps – happy birtday Miester!