Month: August 2002

Hypocrisy

its hilarious and sad at the same time to read through the archives to follow the PostNuke saga. it was obvious that postnuke would tank after all contributors left, but that the new head honcho would run it into the ground that quickly came as a surprise. with no capable developers on board, it is perhaps no wonder that a hackish roadmap was presented as the new solution. it will be interesting to watch if any substantial developments emerge out of that mess (and no, spelling fixes are not substantial improvements) meanwhile, the fun is back and work continues.

fighting barney


i had an awesome night at the eff fund raising party. the dna lounge is a nice club for sure, and hearing it firsthand from wil wheaton how he hates shatner was triple A. turns out he knows about our little software project, and he loves it. the celebrity match with barney was a trip. add in some awesome ladies, fine music, and you get an awesome evening, which ended in some apartment in north beach, sf. the next morning we literally stumbled across friends of ours who had crashed at the same apartment! that incident reminded me that i should really check out some of the schmoozing sites. i will admit it i’m beginning to like that schmoozing thingie, i’m becoming a social whore. 🙂

Politics with a clue

tara sue grubb is running for the us congress elections in november.

There is much to learn and much to discuss before November. I have put myself in the bullseye to stand up for our rights as free thinking citizens. I tell you now, I am no perfect being. I may be young, but I have learned much and have the scars to prove it. I am jumping head first into this fire for many reasons. Once thing is certain. I am losing my personal life and privacy, subjecting myself to men and institutions of money, power and greed. I have no shame. My personal privacy is worth the sacrifice if it means preserving the privacy that is OURS.

What about a 26 year old female running against an aged, 18 year career politician? We are polar opposites in many ways. Despite the odds, whatever they be, I am as serious as a heart attack. You don’t have to be a senior politician to understand the concepts of liberty, laissez-faire and justice. You don’t have to be a mastermind to see the people of this nation have been pushed into estrangement. Finally, you don’t have to be a suit to change the way things are.

politicians that actually talk to their constituency? what a welcome change. tara, lets hope you can pull it off.

H1B fun

Joe Q. Random handed me a flyer for No more H1B yesterday in SOMA. What a bunch of crack heads. Blame me for I am a foreigner, and yes I would love to work in the United States. I come from a rich country, and our citizens are scared of foreigners too. Building protectionist walls will do no good though. We live in an international market, and jobs and contracts will follow the rules of the market, no matter what regulations there are. Outlawing H1B will do exactly nothing. Some people seem to have forgotten what the US is all about: Welcoming people from all around the world, and letting them compete on even ground.

I witnessed how outsourcing is done when I worked in Thailand last year. Over time, salary levels WILL reach US levels, as asian companies figure out they can charge more. And they do. In one example, a swiss bank actually shipped furniture to India for their IT staff there, probably eliminating all savings in the process.

Bottom line: Protectionism will save no one. Get over it.