Shifting Ground Tuesday - 08/Feb/2000 As you might imagine, the process of redefining oneself as part of a growing management team is akin to undergoing the ground shifting under one's feet. I spent most of my adult life in California, so it's a familiar feeling. In this situation, there are new names to remember and working to keep faces attached to them; there's also having to hold a plethora of questions in abeyance. It would be less earthquake-like if I were the only one in transition. When everyone is in transition, there are always more questions than answers. So this Journal entry will be a primer for those of you expecting to make a similar transition. [ continue ] CURRENT SURVEY: If there were an ITMJ e-mail Discussion List... I would opt-in and use it exclusively. 0% I would still want Web-based articles because of the archive. 0% An e-mail list is a good idea, but shouldn't be the only format. 0% I prefer Web sites to e-mail lists. 0% Click Here to read Today's Entry and cast your vote in the survey.

Senator Bennett Praised for Y2K Work
This story, published Feb. 2, comes from the Deseret News. [ continue ]

Koskinen Assesses Y2K in Retrospect
This is from the United States Information Agency (Jan. 27). [ continue ]

Highway Emergency Phones in New York State Died on Jan. 1
This is bad news for motorists. [ continue ]

NSA Computer Down for Four Days. Not Y2K, Says NSA
The National Security Agency's cmputer was down for four days. [ continue ]

Don McAlvany on Y2K
This detailed report by Don McAlvany is worth reading. It's important on Russia/China analysis. [ continue ]

Refinery Explosion in Montana
Odd, how refineries seem to be having trouble these days. [ continue ]

Emergency Communications System To Be Replaced: Not Compliant
Shawnee County, Kansas, hasn't exterminated the Y2K bug, according to a Jan. 26 article from the Topeka Capital-Journal. [ continue ]

BP Has Problems Because of Refinery Glitch
The headline says all, even though it's a misprint. Force majeure means "act of God -- not responsible." [ continue ]

Accounting Problems Reported
This is from AccountingWEB (Jan. 26). [ continue ]

OPEC Slowdown and Just-in-Time Inventory Policies Have Created a Crisis
The winter weather is not the only cause of the heating oil crisis. It's a supply crisis. Higher oil prices will create inflation index problems for the Federal Reserve System. The stock market is reacting negatively. [ continue ]

Shopping Hackers Give Themselves Price Cuts - Report
- Newsbytes News Network
As if hackers don't get away with enough, now it's become clear that they can use their knowledge to get bette online shopping bargains than the rest of us. [ continue ]

Amazon.com '99 Sells $1.6 Bil, Loses $390 Mil - Update
- Newsbytes News Network
Amazon.com Inc. [NASDAQ:AMZN], the Web's leading consumer retailer, today said its sales climbed by more than 169 percent to more than $1.6 billion in 1999 but that it still managed to lose a whopping $390 million. [ continue ]

Microsoft Dominates Australian Web Survey
- Newsbytes News Network
The Ninemsn Australian Web portal, along with the MSN US site, are the top global Web sites visited by Australian Internet users, according to a survey by Media Metrix. [ continue ]

Shoppers At Canadian Websites Often American - Report
- Newsbytes News Network
A survey of online retail Websites in Canada suggests that more than half of their revenue comes from outside the country - with the majority of that foreign cash coming from the US. [ continue ]

Justice Probes eBay for Antitrust
- Associated Press
The Justice Department is investigating whether eBay Inc., the world's largest online auction site, violated federal antitrust laws in its actions toward smaller Internet rivals. [ continue ]

Martha Stewart Invests In Kmart's Online Store
- Newsbytes News Network
The media and retailing juggernaut controlled by homemaking czarina Martha Stewart has snapped up a 5 percent stake in BlueLight.com, the online retail outlet launched as a stand-alone company in December by Kmart Corp. [NYSE:KM]. [ continue ]

Consumer Attitudes To Shape European E-Commerce - Forrester
- Newsbytes News Network
A report out today says that, while US online shopping may have gone stratospheric, European online shopping is only now just starting to take off. More intriguingly, however, the report says that it is consumers, not the e-tailers, that are driving the market. [ continue ]

E-businesses More Concerned With Profits Than Security
- Newsbytes News Network
Most information systems (IS) and audit professionals are more concerned with profitability than security when it comes to their e-commerce Websites. This was one of the key findings of a worldwide e-commerce study undertaken by Deloitte & Touche LLP, a large US-based business consulting and accounting firm, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Foundation (ISACF), a 21,000-member international association concerned with governance, control, and assurance issues. [ continue ]

UPS Forms Subsidiary for E-Commerce
- Associated Press
United Parcel Service Inc. is creating a subsidiary, UPS e-Ventures, to seek out new Internet-related business opportunities. [ continue ]

Infogrames North America, Inc. Brings Sorcery and Magic to Sega Dreamcast With Silver; The Highly Anticipated Adventure Game Will Hit Stores This Summer
- Business Wire
If you look really hard through the dense, dark, misty forest you can see a light, the shining light of Silver(tm) for Sega(R) Dreamcast(tm). [ continue ]