In an interesting twist, it appears as though the tale of the only stock options I ever received may be drawing to an end. Back in January 1999, when WAM!NET laid me off, I had the choice of whether to exercise my stock options or not. I did, buying 2500 shares at $0.96 each. Last week I received notice that I have two choices of what to do with those shares: cash them out at $0.25 each; or convert them to some other form of note that might pay me $0.50 each at some time in the future. It’s all part of a fairly massive restructuring of the company, with the hopes that the new owners might have a chance of keeping it afloat. I haven’t decided for sure, but I’m probably going to take the cash and run. I think it’s time to close the books on that particular chapter of my life.
- Down at Drake (where the subpoenas were issued for information about members of an organization), it appears the anti-war inquiry unrelated to terror and focuses on trespassing on an army base. But it still doesn’t explain why the subpoenas were issued in the first place, and then withdrawn. [instapundit]
- Subpoenas on Antiwar Protest Are Dropped, but
If it was just a trespassing investigation, why seek the membership records of the National Lawyers Guild?
- Privacy Is in the House as a bill has passed committee which would require government agenciies to assess the risks to privacy of any new regulations. It wouldn’t fix all the problems, but it would mean that privacy might get a little more attention.
- What Really Happened At the Airport is a nice little story about how trying to help someone isn’t necessarily the best thing to do, even if it’s the right thing. [endwar]
- Entire United States Expatriates, or
What Happened to the US I used to know?
is an explanation from someone who moved out of the US explaining that it’s not so much that he left the US, as that the US he knew left him.