outsource the greedy ones

Before bed sometime this morning,   was telling me about this and I was telling everyone else I was talking to. Passing the utter cool news on. Now I’ll do it here.

Where the protesters were demanding that the IBM CEO gets outsourced to India.

Sporadic chants of “Offshore the CEO!” punctuated a gray Tuesday morning here in Providence, Rhode Island, as about two dozen picketers representing a group of current and former IBM Corp. employees welcomed attendees to the company’s annual meeting.

blogwars: the next reality telly show

…some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information.

This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what’s reported in some blogs is questionable.

Still, a panel of folks who work in the U.S. intelligence field – some of them spies or former spies – discussed this month at a conference in Washington the idea of tracking blogs.

“News and intelligence is about listening with a critical ear, and blogs are just another conversation to listen to and evaluate. They also are closer to (some situations) and may serve as early alerts,” said Jock Gill, a former adviser on Internet media to President Clinton…

 

thanks to

death cab fro cootie

My autoresponces can be terrible terrible things. I know I must be up early so tha I can get to ‘s school on time. I know I have to wake up, I have to get up.  The alarm is set for five to eight, so when do I wake up? Irrevocably at six. Any time I truly impress upon my brain that I have to wake up early, this happens. I will wake up at two in the morning, four in the morning, six o’clock with a “oh gee – I should get ready now”. I invariably try to get back to sleep, only to wake as suddenly almost perfectly two hours later.

I’m tempted right now to go back to sleep, as I know what this will do to me later in the day, but then again, I’m deciding that perhaps I’ll try to stay up. Perhaps I’ll lie in bed reading for an hour, perhaps I’ll get ready then go back to bed, perhaps I’ll…

Being awake two extra hours is so very pointless. Does anyone else ever do this?