The latest book, and a couple of minor blog changes...
Category Book Reviews
First off, I just finished reading 24 Days by Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller. Yes, another book about the Enron debacle. Smith and Emshwiller were the two reporters from the Wall Street Journal who started picking up on parts of the story, and broke many parts of it that ultimately led to the company's downfall. There's not as much "inside dirt" in this view of the events, as they are writing from the outside looking in. But I think this is the story as most of us experienced it. They didn't have the smoking gun and they didn't have the inside info. They were finding out the revelations and trying to understand the convoluted dealings that either no one knew about or that Enron was lying about. After reading this book, you'll think "Boy, Enron really deceived a lot of people" and it will explain how so many of us, even former employees, trusted the company until the end.
And a couple of minor blog changes... In order to stop appearing so high in a couple of particular Google search terms, I've decided to modify the views that show Google/Yahoo searches as well as the list of referrers. I now use an !@Contains selection formula to prevent these referrers and searches from appearing on my blog, so I hope over time I'll start to drift down the list for people looking for those terms. I think this is the same thing that Volker ran into when he became the "expert site" on AOL software. He finally just removed the referrer list from the main page. I'd like to leave it there, but if this doesn't work I may take the same approach he did...
First off, I just finished reading 24 Days by Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller. Yes, another book about the Enron debacle. Smith and Emshwiller were the two reporters from the Wall Street Journal who started picking up on parts of the story, and broke many parts of it that ultimately led to the company's downfall. There's not as much "inside dirt" in this view of the events, as they are writing from the outside looking in. But I think this is the story as most of us experienced it. They didn't have the smoking gun and they didn't have the inside info. They were finding out the revelations and trying to understand the convoluted dealings that either no one knew about or that Enron was lying about. After reading this book, you'll think "Boy, Enron really deceived a lot of people" and it will explain how so many of us, even former employees, trusted the company until the end.
And a couple of minor blog changes... In order to stop appearing so high in a couple of particular Google search terms, I've decided to modify the views that show Google/Yahoo searches as well as the list of referrers. I now use an !@Contains selection formula to prevent these referrers and searches from appearing on my blog, so I hope over time I'll start to drift down the list for people looking for those terms. I think this is the same thing that Volker ran into when he became the "expert site" on AOL software. He finally just removed the referrer list from the main page. I'd like to leave it there, but if this doesn't work I may take the same approach he did...
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