Oblomovka

2004-06-10»

Andover Consulting in San Francisco is liquidating its operations and auctioning off all its stuff.

Before it shut down, its core business was liquidating dotcom companies and auctioning off all their stuff.

Is this a good or bad economic sign? I can't tell. Will it become clearer if the company running this auction goes bust too?

So, somebody from Andover has mailed to say that they're not going out of business. They do appear to be selling off a lot of their San Francisco offices, though. And you'd think they'd use their own liquidation company to do the liquidating, in a sort of anti-bootstrapping move, wouldn't you? I'll look into it some more when I'm not travelling.

Update: Mike from Andover writes: "We are moving to more of a broker model as selling individual computers, etc. is just not profitable when new P4s are selling for $300." Basically, I think they're closing their warehouse.

2004-06-06»

It is the special privilege of con organisers (which I barely am) to not have any idea how the damn thing went. I really only saw Yoz and Sean's report from the set of the Hitchhiker's movie, and the launch, finally, of TheyWorkForYou. Everyone I spoke to seem to enjoy themselves, despite the trademark chaos.

Now. Need. Sleep.

P.S. We launched TheyWorkForYou, a *huge* effort by all the usual suspects to revamp Hansard, the official record of the UK parliament, in a more Web-a-like form. Help us beta test it! Subscribe to the RSS feeds of your local MP! Subscribe to our infrequent site updates! Play around with search! Still. Need. Sleep!