Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Endless coffee-and-doughnut-laden meet-and-greets means you won't have to buy breakfast again until November...
...Doughnut makers and New York City have lost their monopolies. The thrumming economy needs security guards, operators and computer programmers around the clock; in some ways, every city is now the city that never sleeps. The latest quarterly installment of this work-documentary series takes us inside nocturnal work sites from a dairy farm to the cavernous belly of an online grocery store's warehouse. This balanced, smart hour treats work neither as a prison nor a paradise. And thanks to crisp editing and comedian-host Will Durst's common-man touch, it isn't a chore to watch...
...time who could be connected could exchange messages with me in real time. Since I am by nature a modest exhibitionist, I password-protected Little Al so that only people I invited could see me in my native habitat--staring vacantly at my computer. Maybe eating a doughnut...
...always online in her home office. (Are we a wired couple? Yes, we are.) "NOW WHAT?" she shot back. I told her to just click on the address and see. She did, and went to the SpotLife site--where she observed me sitting at my desk. Eating a doughnut. Blink. "SO?" she I.M.'d me. O.K., there was something underwhelming about the Webcam experience. Frankly, it was more interesting to peek into the windows of the hundreds of other people who were "live" on SpotLife. I especially liked the Webcast of the two basset hounds. Now that's entertainment...
Shocking as it sounds, there are Internet professionals actually concerned with creating something besides catchy names and 300% annual stock returns. These are the "coders," or programmers, working 24/7 in Silicon Valley's fluorescent-lighted anthills. Code Rush follows doughnut-gobbling Netscape coders as they scramble to produce a new version of their Web browser and keep their company from being trampled by Microsoft. This no-frills hour is a valuable look at the hamster wheel of exhilarating and life-sucking work that powers the dot-com wealth generator...