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My former employer, CMGI, is going to transfer to the NASDAQ SmallCap market on November 1st. The requirements for being listed on the NASDAQ SmallCap market are somewhat less rigorous than the requirements for the main NASDAQ market. It does retain the minimum share price of $1 requirement, however, which CMGI doesn't currently meet. I would expect a reverse stock split sometime in the next 180 days.
Oct. 22nd, 2002
I have happily validated my RSS feeds; sing hooray! Yeah, pretty geeky. Movable Type users should note that the instructions for fixing old Movable Type feeds assume that you want to replace your RSS .9x feed with an RSS 2.0 feed, which may or may not be the case -- some aggregators will still choke on RSS 2.0 and there are no perl modules to handle RSS 2.0 feeds as far as I know. So you may want to proceed with a bit more caution there. If anyone wants to know how I fixed my .91 feed, drop me a comment.
John Tynes just released Meta Action, an incomplete set of rules for running modern action with the D20 ruleset. At first glance it looks interesting enough. It retains hit points, since it's intended to simulate action movies and thus can be less realistic, but more or less does away with classes. Your Charisma bonus is added to every roll, since action heros are good looking.
Without revamping the combat system, though, I'm not sure the ruleset works. PCs are going to get hit all the time, particularly since you can pump skill points into your ranged or melee attack bonuses. A level 1 character with a 14 Charisma (say) can easily have a total of +7 to hit right off the bat. Even level 0 NPCs can be fairly deadly. Three goons with shotguns are terrifying.
The Dog Squad is neat, though. It's a cool little campaign concept that goes with the Meta Action rules. There's enough there to work with.
Phil Ringnalda makes explicit the Movable Type RSS .91 feed issue I to which I just alluded, so yeah. His solution is more elegant than the hard-coded timezone I used (and was too embarassed to explain). I will be installing it at a later date.