I wish more pages were like that. Good work!

Can I tell you a little secret? I’m not going to sign my name on this one because it’s probably not a secret I should tell. In the last place where I was employed, a sort of medical-organization that we work with collaboratively got a grant from a big name Foundation to revamp a medical information website that we ran. The grant was for $400,000. We — I mean me and the other people who ran the website and maintained it on a daily basis by adding new stuff and keeping it updated and hence useful — got none of that money. Well, actually, there was a meeting with sandwiches and they might have paid for the sandwiches. It all went… I don’t know where, but I think most of it went to the dumbass company that redid the website. And in the end it was no more functional, in my opinion, than the previous ugly but functional website. All that $400,000 bought was spent on giving it a slick new corporate look that makes it look like it’s sponsored by a pharmaceutical company (even though it’s not) and probably scares people off.

Can you believe the money people waste on stuff? Couldn’t that $400K have been better spent buying mosquito nets or something for places where people die of malaria?