Brian Magierski

I like JIRA - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

I use Jira also. - imabonehead

Outlook... *shivers* - Aram Zucker-Scharff

great statistics - but netvibes and bloglines are so bad in numbers. - Erhan Erdogan

That is because Outlook is soo easy - it brings all of your inbound comms into 1 place. - Angus Logan

@Angus, totally agree. While I don't use the native RSS functionality in Outlook I do use the Attensa Outlook Plugin so that everything is in one place (for business at least). At home I do the same thing with Thunderbird. Well, not exactly the same since Attensa doesn't have a Thunderbird plugin. - Kenton

Apparently a lot of people read feeds from work and while there, they are forced to use Outlook. May they become enlightened and discover Google Reader... - Glenn Batuyong

404 - mojay

@ Rolf: I agree. Somehow the fact that we have been blaming unions since Ronald Reagan seems to have become a knee-jerk reaction. The UAW negotiated away all their pension rights and created a union fund to take over the obligations. This new contract gets overlooked a lot. My point being that the white collars still have their jets but the guy who actually does the work has to be the one who gives up years of promises. People forget that before unions ideas such as "the fourty-hour week" and "the weekend" were never heard of. We don't need to make ourselves more like a third-world country. This is a race to the bottom and the guys who make millions are loving it. - Phil Boiarski

Phil Boiarski: I say let's look at everything. Not just bash the unions or the CEOs. No one is totally innocent here. The system has to be revamped top to bottom. CEO and worker pay, union contracts, Congress has to take care of health care to take the burden of these companies and these car companies will have to trim a lot of fat and focus on the future. A lot of top management may have to go. That old stubborn corrupted mindset and irresponsible leadership must be purged to assure a new direction. - Rolf Schewe

Sorry about the 404 -- fixed. - Dave Winer

Rolf, No argument that everything needs a look. My point is that Union bashing has been going on for years as the "solution" to our competitive problem. Not design choices, stubborn refusal to raise mpg, enormous bonuses and perks, etc. The Unions gave and gave again. The CEO's fly private jets and point fingers at others. Use this as an opportunity to remake the way we think about cars. - Phil Boiarski

The sad fact is that you'll get nothing for your gov't money. If you can show me a single success of gov't intervention/ownership, I can show you 100 utter and complete failures (Fannie/Freddie/HUD/etc). What's worse, the gov't doesn't even have any money anyway. You're simply choosing to postpone pain today (which isn't close to as bad as you predict) with even more pain tomorrow (when all those IOU's come due and no country is crazy enough to continue lending to us). - Carter Rabasa

"US initiative to increase gas mileage" ... The initiative a)didn't go far enough and b)was given a loophole to drive SUVs through - a loophole created by Detroit's lobbyists. - Steven Vore

Latest news is the Dems are demanding a restructuring plan before giving another penny. Would have been interesting if anyone thought of that when they were handing out checks to AIG and the biggest banks. - Phil Boiarski

Okay, I freely admit I'm totally naive and coming out of left field here, but why can't Congress simply broker a loan between the oil companies (the only entity that actually *has* money right now) and the automakers? They could charge a reasonable brokerage fee and put some of that money back for once. Seems like everybody wins. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ ᴷᴵᴹ ᴬ

The oil companies wouldn't want to do it -- that's the only problem. Most of them aren't even American companies. The only way the US govt could compel them to do it is to nationalize them. I hope that doesn't happen, but I suppose it could. If it happened the stock market would probably evaporate. The Dow would go down to $0. - Dave Winer

It might do that anyway. - Phil Boiarski