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Yahoo shareholder trades stake for bag full of literary allusions [Quotable] 10 October 2008 at 4:00 pm by admin

Eric Jackson, the sassy activist investor who made so much trouble for Yahoo this year, has given up the ghost, crapped out, sailed into the sunset — pick your truism, Jackson has probably used it! He gave hunky videoblogger John Paczkowski a block-that-metaphor-worthy explanation for why he sold his hedge fund’s Yahoo stake at $20:

I had no idea idea it would fall this much but I finally decided to stop pushing a rope by calling for change from the inside (as a shareholder). I voted with my feet. This board has the blood of its shareholders on its hands, and I hope they wear that scarlet letter stigma for a long time.


+ DeskTask Puts Outlook Events and Tasks on Your Desktop [Featured Windows Download] By admin 02 October 2008 at 1:00 pm and have No Comments

Windows only: Freeware application DeskTask embeds your Microsoft Outlook calendars and tasks directly on your desktop—whether Outlook is running or not. We actually covered DeskTask a couple of years back, but in light of the recent popularity of embedded calendar and to-do applications like previously mentioned Rainlendar and Samurize, DeskTask seems like a perfect alternative for Outlook die-hards. Granted, you can accomplish more with something like Samurize (just take a look at the Lightning at Sunset desktop for an example), but if all you want is your Outlook info at a glance, the lightweight DeskTask is just the ticket.