[hewlett packard] how nice are patricia dunn’s tactics

It’s gradually emerging how Patricia Dunn actually operates and what HP actually have on their hands in their CEO. Anyone who has skimmed through this blog knows I prefer the direct assault to the mudslinging and yet this woman seems to be crying out for a bit of the slushy stuff over the mush. The Slashdot [theodp] report is here.

[from the blogger] some puzzling trends

The Most Viewed section to the left is genuine and is changed daily, as all things should be. The surprises are the stories which won't go away, like the Asset Swapping, Russian Oil and French Dressing. Big mover is the 25 Minutes with the Russian Girl. Niagara has done well too. I'd hoped the Khodorkovski and the Daniel Ellsberg/Mordecai Vanunu stories might have 'taken' more. Actually, I'm redoing the Russian girl on Monday because she wasn't satisfied with the last interview.

بعد انقلاب أنصاره عليه.. بلير يتنحى خلال عام

أعلن رئيس الوزراء البريطاني توني بلير، الذي يواجه معارضة متزايدة من البريطانيين وحتى من داخل قاعدته في حزب العمال، أنه سيتنحى عن السلطة خلال عام
واكد بلير يوم الخميس خلال زيارته لمدرسة في لندن انه سيغادر السلطة في غضون سنة

I don't know - I just felt that Tony Blair's departure needed a more original setting.

[oil and gas] significance of the chevron gulf tap

So what’s with the oil find in the gulf? What it basically means is soft demand in the nearest future and perceived steady supplies in the long term should shift the power balance away from the middle-east a little. Seems to me Saudi and other Arab nations playing with a “full house” won’t exactly find themselves bidding on a “pair of knaves” but if the gulf find checks out, it must shore up falling US cred or at least give it room to move in its negotiating position. More here.

[colour schemes] the culture of green

Ah, green, eternal green - life, abundant in nature, signifying growth, renewal, health, and environment but against that, green is also jealousy or envy and inexperience. With the calming attributes of blue but without blue’s association with cold, clinical evil, time moves faster in a green room. Strongly associated with Ireland and Islam, reminiscent of spring, coupled with red it's a Christmas colour. More on green here.

[global warming] now the threat is from below

There appears to be growing evidence that there is a perpetuating, renewable global threat beginning to be released from below the earth’s surface – methane – trapped under the permafrost, which is now melting; the results are beginning to appear which oil and gas people have been aware of for decades. Is this the earth finally striking back? Here are the essentials from the AP report.

[technology] today blackberry; tomorrow the world

Jesse D'Aguanno, director of research at Praetorian Global, has created an attack program called BBProxy, which can penetrate computers behind a corporate firewall and attack systems worldwide once it is installed on a BlackBerry device. He has released his source code - BlackBerry Attack Toolkit - to the public. Research in Motion, makers of BlackBerry say the threat can be prevented by using the correct settings built into its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Hmmmm. Anyone with a BlackBerry out there? [Globe and Mail]

[hewlett packard] has patricia dunn for hp

Further to the earlier story about the trouble at Hewlett Packard, Vox Day made a reference to it in the course of his misogynist rant and I decried it in a comment. Now it appears he’s right and all the people resigning, storming out, leaking to the press and general unhappiness all centres around one woman – chairwoman Patricia Dunn. Perfect example of how not to run a company. More here.

[corrective services] hamburglar goes to prison

The Department of Correction is serving up a plan to put a fast-food restaurant in New York City's Rikers Island jail system, giving thousands of workers there greater meal options. Currently, the jail guards eat the same food as the crims. More of this gripping tale here.

[writing] the secret to getting yourself published

Whether you're an incarcerated ex-tycoon or just a bog-standard blogger like the rest of us, once that urge to scribble gets into the psyche, Mr. Gibbon, we just have to produce another damned square book, don't we and get it published. But how to break into the literary world? Perhaps Vancouver has the answer. Story here.