Xerox Revises Revenue Data, Tripling Error First Reported
A HA HAA HA HA HA heh heh hah HA!
Oh man! This is gettin’ GOOD! Who’s next?
And in today's huge corporate accounting errors
Xerox too? Copycats.
And I have been informed via crypto-Masonic corespondence that I am obligated to clarify my anti-Economist outburst of recent days: said outburst was purely self-satirical in nature and was in no way intended to be a sexual invitation to the news magazine The Economist, employees thereof, or readers.
Besides, I heard the guy they have covering our meltdown (yes, I said meltdown; more to come, he says), and I found him to be the most informed and reasoned person on the subject on the show; all the Americans clearly had too much at stake politically to accurately address the issues.
For instance, did you know that the head of the SEC raised concerns about these issues following the collapse of “Chainsaw Al” Dunlop’s eviscerated Sunbeam in the spring of 1998? And that the accounting firm employed by Al there was … Andersen? And that the accounting industry marshalled forces and closed down efforts to legislate safeguards against these kinds of tricks? And that the very folks we are seeing, red in the face, on TV, calling for greater, um, accountability, the folks that sit on Joe Lieberman’s Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, are the peple that the accounting industry made sure to take very good care of come campaign time.
Recently I made note of Frontline’s monster season.
Well, a week ago, the topic was this: Bigger than Enron. The title is a prediction. Less than a week later, we’ve seen what is poised to be the fulfillment of that prediction.
One long-term point to keep in mind, if there were any way to get this on the board in congress: if AOL Time Warner, Disney, and/or Sony have engaged in similar accounting chicanery (a distinct possiblity, yes?), there may be some possibility of addressing the unfortunate extension of both the life of copyright via the Mickey Mouse bill and additionally, an opportunity to weaken the strictures of the DCMA.
PWC Consulting RENAMED!
In what I can only assume to be continuing fallout from Enron, the dot-collapse, et al – PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting has chosen a new moniker. I’ll let Anne Zender fill you in – go on, I’ll be here when you get back, waiting.
What can I say? At least it’s a word.
Of course, it seems to me that if someone were to whip up a web poll (you know who you are) concerning posible days of the week one might wish to name a consulting firm after, there are other, more accurate and descriptive choices, such as “Beer Friday” and “Tuethursday” (this last of course describing the we-must-ship-the-software-now-no-one-may-leave-the-premises-until-someone-dies-or-the-project-is-done business practice sooo beloved in tech – ooh! triple overtime!).
I wonder, did they hire a consulting firm?
Of course, after reflection, I realize that the name is intended as an antidote to the wild-eyed spend-spend-spend world of accounting and consulting practices that closed Andersen recently.
That, and they can license a fine The Mamas and The Papas song. I don’t think they’ll buy using the Boomtown Rats song, though.
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Mmmph. Self-annoyance! I meant to post this (well, duh) on Monday. Dagnabbit. Ken no doubt figures it’s john barleycorn wuz the causin’ of it all, but it wernt.
MT upgrade a-comin'
Naturally, I no sooner get bellerophon restored to her normal, sweetnatured self when I hear of things one and two.
thing one
Movable Type has released 2.mumble of the very fine content management system which helps provide these pages, and it changes the back end from perl and flatfile – based databasing to perl and MySQL, very good news indeed for me, at least. I rather imagine that the cutover should make saving and rebuilding a bit snappier. I do hope they stick with the cold HTML-based output though – very nice for backup.
I suppose I should schedule that project for Monday.
thing two
OpenSSH has a security hole in it which means I can either demonstrate my manly prowess with open-source software updates, or wait until Apple fixes it and distributes it via Software Update. Hm, which one would you choose?
I think I’ll schedule my masculinity-demonstration session for Monday as well.
And just for giggles, the image which adorns this entry came from an eleven-page thread at The Comics Journal discussion board in which, as nearly as I can make out, some comics collectors who feel that Chris Ware’s scathing, brutal depiction of their species in the just concluded “Rusty Brown” segments of his work means he should by no means be allowed to produce collectibles that would appeal to their ilk.
The object in question appears to be a Rusty Brown lunchbox first released a few months ago.