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To: doby who wrote (424)	8/12/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: D. Wei	Respond to of 756

TO ALL: From Randall McCallum Three points of view, but very different reactions from the reader. 'It is insight into human nature that is the key to a communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.' (If I remember right, it comes from William Bernbach.) 'If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time with a tremendous whack.' (Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), statesman) 'Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.' (Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American writer and businessman) Now that I have gauged this SI thread and the many reactions to my posts, I'll give you the tally from the e-mails and calls that I have received in the past three days. This is somewhat meaningless and not statistical, but it proves a point that certain people get too wrapped up in threads, like this. And even I can crank the heat up on the SI thread. over 15 e-mails: Speak your mind Randall. I'm in THW for the long haul. 3 e-mails: I am a shareholder, and if you say anymore on SI I'll sell my THW stock. I wonder why they didn't just sell instead of trying to dictate to me with threats of selling? 3 e-mails: Don't really know what to make of this stuff on the thread, but when is news about THW coming out? 2 e-mails: Did you post to BOBz. Si? 2 calls: Did you post to Bobz. To Si? 1 call: Very conservative person that was concerned about the exchange halting us, but supportive. 1 call: Very irrate person. Those bastards on SI. They're all stupid. When's the lawsuit with Aggarwal going to be settled? 5 calls: I support you and the company. When's the shareholder lawsuit happening against the Aggarwals? There are over 800 shareholders in THW that don't care and have never even heard of Silicon Investor. About 10 of them hold over 200,000 shares each. One or two of them with over 500,000. Many of them probably just like you. Some of them call one in a while with the standard stuff. Your thread is in the minority of shareholders for THW. Don't act like you are the conscience of this company. Your not. If you want to sell. Then Sell! Threads like this are not ready for any company officals to particpate in unless those officials are ready and willing to kiss up to everyone. That's not going to happen with me. Very few people like Steve Jobs, but are not arguing with his style lately. He's getting the job done at Apple. I've dealt with him and his people a few times lately and also in the past and I like his style. I have a similar style to Jobs. Many people don't like it, but I am not here to make friends. I have a ton of friends already. Many in the industry and many others. Only a few come from the financial world. And they are not the conservative types. That's why I am not and nor do I believe that I am the best to deal with them. They don't want facts, they want to hear what they want you to tell them. Brian is the balance here at THW and draws to the conservative. He'll be back from holidays next week. That will make the very conservative investor types happy. I hired him for that reason. I for one am getting back to designing great software, and challenging my development team to build the next great product. A wired sprite editor for interactive movies. For those radical types that appreciate change, it's happening. E-mail me whenever you want. It's kind of boring particpating on these threads and sucks up too much valuable time. I set out to heat the SI thread up and only person called and hit the nail right on the head. Your heating up the THW SI thread on purpose, aren't you? My Response: Really! It shouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to figure that out. Now in the real world: Adobe just fired 3 top executives and laid off 300 employees. They are in some serious trouble. They miscalculated the low end market and the iMac. Guess what market THW targeted? Randall H. McCallum Signature from e-mail program: Randall H. McCallum ___________ Chairman and CEO <http://www.totallyhip.com> Totally Hip Software Inc. voice: (604) 685-6525x223 210-1040 Hamilton St. fax: (604) 685-4057 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 2R9