5. February, 2002 - big money

• Honesty at issue as stocks crumble. There have always been things about the GAAP that made me wonder. Why is it that big corporations can get away with accounting that would put me in jail if I tried it with my business? Well, maybe that's about to stop. [google news]
• TiVo watches subscribers' Super Bowl viewing habits and discovers people replayed the commercials more than the game. If I'd bothered to watch the game, that's what I'd have been doing. [google news]
• Tech CEOs Take Dim View of 2002 Rebound Scenario, thinking that it's going to be at least another year before things improve. [google news]
• Philips Burning on Protection. The problem is that the evil copy-protecting music companies may try to move to a new standard. Then again, Philips' patents on CDs start to expire this year. Guess we'll see what comes of it. [daypop]
• In a first, Bush budget links funding to program performance. And it took how long for someone in D.C. to think of this? [fark!]
• In a late update, here's today so far:
  • woke up at 6am
  • put together the links for Dave's Picks by 8 - I was moving slow, so it took two hours
  • I wasn't feeling very well, so I laid down for some more sleep
  • damn phone kept ringing - four messages on the answering machine, only one person talking
  • woke again well after noon
  • and finally at now at 3:30 in the afternoon, I'm feeling like I might remain upright for a couple hours running.
  
  I'm not sure what's up, but I'm pretty sure I'm not incredibly healthy today.
  Or maybe just a week of full-time work, followed by a weekend full of things to do, follwed by a 20-hour day yesterday has me worn out. Ugh. But I need to go to the store soon, because none of the places that deliver food to me will deliver milk, and I feel a need for milk. In all, it's being a pretty sorry excuse for a day.

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:29:48.