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Weekly news

Published Date: September 23rd, 2007
Category: pol, biz

Ah, Sunday.  Breakfast done.  Relaxing with a mug of tea, and my weekly Economist.
From the leader for the cover article, “Will the credit crisis trigger a downturn?”:
But there are cycles in all things: underpricing begets excess, which begets a reckoning. For a while at least, many people and businesses will have to pay more to borrow, […]

“When they get delayed, they get praised…”

Published Date: February 13th, 2007
Category: pers, biz

A friend from MS wrote:  Why is it that when they get delayed, they get praised. When we get delayed, it is always bashed. What are we doing wrong?
I have a friend (Linda) who gave a believable theory for this.

When a Microsoft computer crashes, the user gets a popup box, explaining very rationally that something […]