Friday, March 22, 2002

Oscar Down... more coming soon   2:30:05 AM

Thursday, March 21, 2002

About.com Guides Are Sueing Over Wages and Employment Status Mary 21, 2001 Thirty four current and former employees of About.com, the web guide, have sued the website and its parent company Primedia (NYSE: PRM) for failure to pay minimum and overtime wages, according to a story by Dow Jones Newswires. The plaintiffs, who filed their lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, also claim Primedia has improperly recorded About.com's revenue and expenses in order to make its balance sheet look healthier. The suit claims that the About.com service "would not have functioned without the plaintiffs' ongoing labor" and the plaintiffs--who are designated by Primedia as "independent contractors--should be recognized as Primedia employees. In addition, the plaintiffs claim Primedia has engaged in "fictitious, improper and/or fraudulent" accounting in its dealings with About.com. The suit seeks some $100 million in damages or $1 million for each member, whichever is greater. [Dow Jones Newservice] hmmm? 6:44:36 PM     And Now a Word from Our Sponsor... HELP! I'm in the process of re-organizing the site, and more specifically the Categories and their Navigation.  But it's not working.  I'm trying to post the results on the Skating Diva Category, but it's not showing up there.  Any ideas? Has anyone ever had Radio hang up your system and make the CPU go nuts? Mine's taking a hell of a lot of resources. (FYI I'm on Win98 on the notebook) Also A couple of you have asked about the large type-- I wear bifocals-- actually TRI focals -- Nuff said. I am still looking for a webdesign guru who will help me redesign this site to actually be fully functional and get the graphics so they don't appear like a ransom note. I had someone email me a couple weeks ago-- but I will be damned if I can find the note.  HIT THE YELLOW ENVELOPE IN THE LEFT COLUMN AND EMAIL ME IF YOU NEED A SMALL PROJECT! 4:48:36 PM     Skating Diva News: Yagudin Wins His Fourth World Title AlexeiYagudin is the 2002 Men's World Champion, (Ctr), Timothy Goebel, (Lt) Silver and Takeshi Honda (Rt) Bronze show their medals during ceremonies at the M-Wave in Nagano, Japan.  (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) For complete results click here. Ice Dancing: OSP Round Finished with Russians Lobacheva and Averbukh in the lead. Second were Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz. Third were Lithuanians Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas. The Free Dance Final round is Friday. For complete results click here Maria Butyrskaya of Russia has withdrawn from the World Championships due to illness. Butyrskaya, a former World Champion, had a disasterous qualifying round when her coaches were unable to get the the M-Wave due to a traffic problems around the MWave and placed 6th in ladies qualifying group A and was tied for 11th overall. 2:56:01 PM

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Skating Diva Report:  Pairs Final Results Pairs just finished up a short while ago according to IceCalc, the official scoring system. And while this is fine to know where the placements are-- it does little to tell you exactly HOW people skated. So I waited a bit for Judy Blumberg's report on iSkater. Below's the final placements and links to the gory details--  are here, and here .  2002 World Pairs Finals 1 Xue SHEN/Hongbo ZHAO CHN (left) 2 Tatiana TOTMIANINA/Maxim MARININ RUS 3 Kyoko INA/John ZIMMERMAN USA (right)                  AP did a nice story on Kyoko Ina here For more results click here. (coming) 5:24:35 PM     HELP! Technogeeks I need to talk to you. * Clarified Version     [TAKE TWO!] I am looking for a message or forum software like Webboard, that will support an existing forum community of approx. 1000-2000 members. However not all logged on at once. (I wish!) The server at the ISP we are currently on is running Linux. It would be nice if this software would allow multiple forums that are not visible to one another, without going through a common door/web page, running on one server-- but it's not a deal breaker. This is not instant messaging. However chat would be a nice feature-- but why duplicate what IM etc does all ready? Admin Tools need to be Common Sense Oriented. As our Admins have over 20 yrs experience in running Forum Communities and a low threshold for bs. Must be able to interface to an FTP Library of files available for the members for professional use. I must have the ability to back up the entire forum or by a specific date range. Need a  search feature. Membership Rosters must be secure and have the ability to autorespond to password inquiries. Membership should be able to post a profile. And it must be price very reasonable with support (and possibly set up) as an additional fee Email me: by clicking on the little yellow envelope in the left hand corner. A litte background: This is for an exsisting professional forum that has been online for over 15 years. There are other forums who are interested. These are very savvy users who demand a fast common sense approach to messaging with a low tolerance to BS. Thanks again-- Mary Lu PS:  Thanks to Doc and everyone else for pointing to this message to help out! [Take One]I need a messaging software for a forum that will support about 1000-2000 members, but not all logged online at once. I would like chat, but it's not necessary. I think need multiple FTP's and the ability to run it on Linux box on my ISP. And above all-- it needs to be fast and very reasonable in the price column. Email me by clicking on the little yellow envelope on the left column.  Thanks!  Mary Lu 4:16:14 AM

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