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the boom has boomed

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Sydney, 2001.02.16

I've got the feeling that something's in the wind. I get the strange impression that the tech boom has indeed, as someone recently told me, boomed. But things at home are different and I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to be renewed past the three month stint for which I was hired.

rand()m quote

In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber