] From on-board radar and Wi-Fi to electronic steering,
] amazing technologies already here or soon coming promise
] to create a new automotive era

More propaganda from Detroit and Stuttgart.

21st Century Cars Hit the Road

] In an era of double-digit percentage increases in health
] premiums and a general consumer backlash against
] insurers, it's a pitch that has been gaining traction in
] recent years. American Healthways manages the equivalent
] of approximately 850,000 health plan members, more than
] double what it did two years ago. The new business helped
] American Healthways nearly triple its earnings in 2002,
] and analysts expect profits to grow in excess of 50% this
] year. Annual revenues are expected to eclipse $160
] million.

American Healthways creating a buzz

] Budget: The budget deficit is expected to jump to $450
] billion this year, causing some deficit hawks to warn of
] a growing "crisis." Sorry, but the crisis doesn't exist.
]
] Those who fear the deficit seem surprisingly immune to
] any lessons from history.
]
] For history shows that most of what we hear about the
] deficit is wrong. This deficit, in the truest sense,
] isn't a "record." It's not even close. This year the
] deficit will come in at about $455 billion, or 4.2% of
] GDP, which is the most meaningful way to measure spending
] gaps. How big is that? It doesn't even make the top five
] since 1980.

Fables Of Finance

] Conventional wisdom, you may remember, once rode side by
] side with the prophets of change. When the stock market
] hit the puke stage, conventional wisdom turned. The whole
] new economy thing had been a bad thing. Time, talent, and
] capital were thrown away on unsustainable enterprises
] like point-and-click pet food; it was good for Odwalla,
] but not good for America.

I couldn't have written this article better myself.

Why the bust was for the best for the rest of us.

Some interesting IT job statistics. Don't move to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, or Detriot... Move to Miami, San Diego, or Las Vegas... Follow to palm trees. Also, demand for Novell Netware is rising (?!?#!)

I can only image that the environment is so bad that whatever slight increase in need for Netware people might have occured looks huge in comparison to everything else. Just because you're the only thing going up doesn't mean your "hot." That may go for the cities listed as well...

[IP] IT job trends: Move where the palm trees are

Nope -- now the heat is coming from other media company executives and Beltway lobbyists. They are dismayed that Clear Channel is doing what many might have thought impossible. In an era when Republicans control the government and big business generally gets what it wants, Clear Channel is making deregulation look bad.

Man, the sad thing is that I don't know whether to call this a good thing or a bad thing. It's good that the other media industries are still being regulated from owning too large of a percentage of the market. However, is sucks that throughout America there is hardly any good radio left. You can certainly tell the Clear Channel stations, though, since they all have the same playlist. It doesn't seem to have changed in the past 4 years...

Clear Channel's big, stinking deregulation mess

] While global markets fret over the prospects of war in
] Iraq, an Irish Internet trading exchange is doing nicely
] offering futures contracts on how long Iraqi leader
] Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) will hold on to power.
]
]
] Dublin-based Tradesports, better known for taking punts
] on soccer, allows investors to bet whether President Bush
] (news - web sites) will be re-elected, who will win the
] Oscars (news - web sites) -- even how much snow will fall
] in New York.

Time Runs Out for Saddam at the Betting Exchange

check it!

eBid.Nashville Govt. Auction Site

"I screened job applicants over the phone for a company I didn't work for. My favorite part: Arrogant middle managers who suddenly began to grovel when they realized I wasn't the receptionist."

Outsourcing rejection

BellSouth will stop offering residential customers its DSL Talking service next week, ending one of the first attempts in the United States to sell phone service over digital subscriber lines.

Sure we're deploying advanced data services in exchange for access to the LD market