This is an off-topic list of items we’ve been reading about (we tune in to TechMeme for this stuff):

Valleywag is cutting staff by 60 percent - fuckin’ hell, the (assumed) hard times are hitting everyone. We aren’t entirely sure where the 60% figure comes from since the article itself refers to 19 from the 133 being cut. Whatever. It sucks. Microsoft on the other hand are still looking to grow.

Steve Jobs is fine thank you - rumours of a heart attack for the Apple CEO sent its stock price into a dive. The SEC is investigating.

Dustin Moskovitz is leaving Facebook - don’t worry if you haven’t a fucking clue who he is - we didn’t either - but we should have. He’s a co-founder of Facebook (which you may have heard of <g>) and he’s leaving, along with Justin Rosenstein, to start their own company. There’s a long, boring, marketing bullshit guff email from him about it.

Note, we don’t normally post about other non-Microsoft news, unless, like these it is reasonably interesting.