More on the stupidity of downsizing and outsourcing technical staff.
This article at the Inquirer: The missing parts of the HP-Compaq jigsaw is a letter from an a Compaq/HP insider, and (assuming it is genuine, and it sounds scarily genuine) is a great example of some really stooooopid corporate "thinking".
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Counterculture landmark: the beat goes on

City Lights bookshop, a San Francisco institution, notches up 50 years as the spiritual home of writers such as Ginsberg and Kerouac