[CT] [OT] You suck :) (was re: Buffy)

[Daniel Moran]

>      I wouldn't say it's the upbeat-ness that bugs me.  I think the
>original Callahan's series was upbeat - but upbeat in a real world.  I
>really enjoyed this interview with Spider:
>
>      http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue168/interview.html

In which Spider writes:

 >Now I've got a regular column in [Canadian daily newspaper] The Globe and 
Mail, and a regular column in this wonderful new online outfit, 
galaxyonline.com.

:-) By all odds, the least competent group of human beings I've ever met in 
one place. To be fair, since I had friends there, some of them were quite 
competent -- just not at what they were trying to do, run a website -- 
well, never mind that; they were under the impression they weren't trying 
to run a website; they were building a "media company." Which apparently 
meant blowing some millions (ten million?) of dollars renting limousines 
and going to conventions.

When I joined GalaxyOnline.com, at the beginning of December, 1999, they 
were supposed to go live on January 1, 2000. They had a little countdown 
clock on their home page ... what they didn't have was:

A database
A single page of HTML or ASP
Web servers or a co-location deal

A pornographer who was friendly with our CEO sold them a "web server" for a 
ridiculous price shortly after I got there, and then co-located it at the 
server farm where he was peddling his filth. The "web server" was an old 
Compaq with no disk space and with other web sites running on it. The fund 
raising was being run out of a sweat shop off of PCH in Malibu ... gorgeous 
spot. People were cold-calling retirees and asking them if they wanted to 
get in on the ground floor of this amazing new broadband web company. "You 
can't go $15,000? How about $10,000? My supervisor says, just this once, we 
can go as low as $5,000 if you can make a firm commitment right now ...'"

Two days after seeing that sweat shop, I resigned. I was there, all told, 
three months. I'd pay good money to see the books from that operation, see 
where all that money went actually went.
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