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To: Pink Minion who wrote (47466)	5/31/2001 10:39:10 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Respond to of 70976

>>Putting up a website is a simple example that allowed companies to get rid of whole departments whose sole purpose was to provide information. << Actually it didn't, and that's why many of the dotcoms bombed. You can get away with a catalog that's six months out of date, but the prices on your web page had better be current. Companies that took a build it and forget it approach to their sites have for the most part failed to reap any tangible benefits from their development investments. Katherine

To: Pink Minion who wrote (47466)	6/14/2001 8:09:53 PM
From: mitch-c	Respond to of 70976

OT - some banter, some ST trading Hey mitch, keep telling yourself that's an important project you're working on. I think all my projects were (wink, wink) "important", "critical". Well, it was. So much so that when I got it done for the desktops, I received the short-notice opportunity to do the same for the laptops - thus my recent silence. (I have two weeks of posts to read here.) It's the kind of configuration work that I can choose to do well the first time, or do over hundreds of times. I tend to choose to do it well at the outset; this was one of those. (Definition of an Engineer - someone who pulls all-nighters to build a labor-saving device. <g>) I work in a small enough and flat enough organization that the pointy-hair's are minimal. I have as much input into a collective decision on what's important in my area as anyone, and I can disagree vehemently and get listened to. (My credibility isn't hurt if I say something's important and it means extra work for me.) However, I did get the chance for a small ST trade in the last few days - ANCRK (Jun 01 Puts), in at $0.90, out this morning at $2.65. My SWAG (guess) is about 150% profit after costs. I got lucky on the timing of the drop, but underestimated its severity, so I bailed early and completely. - Mitch (lurking through the thread history)