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Nasdaq's retreat: Breather? Yes. Correction? Maybe.
News After jumping an unprecedented 86 percent in 1999, the Nasdaq composite is off to a rocky start in the first week of 2000. Down more than 400 points and counting, some market watchers are already calling this early slide the beginning of a correction.
[January 7, 2000, 9:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 13/12/1999 Napster global database size: 1.14 terabytes If you're a prophet of doom, you're spoiled for choice at the moment. In the old days, you could just strap on a THE END IS NIGH! placard and go for a stroll -- now you have to set up a...
[December 19, 1999, 21:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 6/12/1999 We've been sold! Or rather: we will be sold. Possibly. It's all very complicated: in brief, our lords and masters in the US, Ziff Davis Inc, were made up of a lot of bits and pieces -- Comdex, ZDTV, the print publications like PC...
[December 12, 1999, 19:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 22/11/1999 A first! I get email from the People's Republic of China -- not spam (a little unlikely, I grant you) or other impersonal stuff, but from a real live bloke. It's in response to something I posted at the weekend on sci.space...
[November 27, 1999, 18:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 15/11/1999 Biometrics! Better get interested in them, 'cos they're very interested in you. Word from Comdex is that the computers have got good enough to recognise us from aspects of our bodies quickly, cheaply and, most important of all...
[November 20, 1999, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 8/11/1999 Watching Marks and Spencer reach the end of its natural life is a sad yet salutary experience. Its combination of dogmatic paternalism, barely post-Imperialist ideas about British being ipso facto best, and resolute indifference to...
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 25/10/1999 Excited by digital TV yet? I ignored it for a while until I saw a Sky setup at a pal's house: the combination of EPG (electronic programme guide -- sort of super Teletext system) and RGB straight to the TV make it a lot more...
[October 29, 1999, 19:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 19/7/1999 Laydeez and Gennlemen! In the red corner, the Hammer of Hemel Hempstead, Freeserve! Aaaaand in the blue corner, the Yankee Warrior itself, AOL! Ten rounds, no gouging of the punters, no hits below a million a month, and a good...
[July 23, 1999, 17:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 14/6/1999 In the immortal words of the Bay City Rollers, "bye bye eBay, eBay bye. It's one thing to have an Internet company that loses money now, tomorrow and forever. That's OK. It's also quite alright to have a company selling something...
[June 18, 1999, 18:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 7/6/1999 Aha! Interesting email from a distant correspondent reveals that they were slipped a BT internal briefing on a new service to be launched on Tuesday. As you'll know if you've read our news service (though quite possibly not if you...
[June 11, 1999, 19:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 31/5/1999 Bank Holiday. Spent slaving over a slightly warm computer, except for the bit where I went out and slogged over Hampstead Heath instead. Much nicer out than in, as I told the policeman.
[June 4, 1999, 19:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 24/5/1999 Tee hee! I see that a top venture capitalist consultant in the States is auctioning breakfasts with himself on eBay. The last one went for $4,400, from some desperate entrepreneur willing to part with the dough just for an hour of...
[May 28, 1999, 18:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 17/4/1999 Whew! What a couple of weeks. Holidaying in Greece where a raddled old rock-star friend is marrying an incandescently beautiful Katarina. The place: Leros, a small island near Turkey, but we don't mention that.
[May 21, 1999, 16:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 26/4/1999 Rumours abound that Tempo (Dixons' wannabies) are about to launch a free ISP. Ho, hum. And there'll be free phone calls at weekends and evenings. Ah! It's all tied up with Localtel, who sell telephone services.
[April 30, 1999, 22:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 19/4/1999 It's been a ropy old weekend on the DSL trial. Sometimes it worketh, sometimes it worketh not, and none may know the passing of the packets. Rumours from people who claim to know people on the inside are rife, but it's fair to say...
[April 23, 1999, 20:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 11/4/1999 You remember that BT ADSL trial? All over by March, they said. Mbps across the country, they said. Oh yeah, we said.well, word is that it's extended to October now. Which is great for jammy so-and-sos such as myself in the trial...
[April 16, 1999, 18:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 5/4/1999 Bank Holiday? Easter eggs. Meeting friends in pubs during the afternoon. Playing with toys. Especially playing with toys, and most especially one I got a friend for her birthday. You may have seen the toy in question if you watch...
[April 9, 1999, 19:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 22/3/1999 Tee hee! A marketing manager of my acquaintance has a job supporting a software outfit's ERP (enterprise resource planning) side. ERP is dead sexy at the moment, being a posh way of selling hugely expensive software to huge...
[March 26, 1999, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday, 22/02/1999 In a rare burst of Maoist self-criticism, Steve Ballmer -- Bill Gates' sidekick -- says that Microsoft has got problems. The products are too much hassle, he admits. Software engineering needs to be re-established as a discipline.
[February 26, 1999, 16:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday, 15/02/1999 I pop over to the Beeb to address the nation: nation appears not to notice. This week, the subject is the future of defence technology (I once worked for Marconi Space And Defence Systems, but for the good of all concerned this...
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
