Ha, bikes are for ugly people -- how many hot chicks do you see on Harley's? Unless saggy boobs and leather pitted faces are you thing... Get yourself a boat! I go out almost every weekend to places like Blarney Island here in Illinois, bikini clad women everywhere! And you'll find boaters are a whole group of fun party people.

I live about 5 minutes from OHare airport. There's a small town that's about 10 minutes away that's currently a ghost town with boarded up houses - some of those houses were actually pretty nice places too - but they needed to expand OHare and that's where they are going to put it.

Chicago does have poor transportation within the city, but it's also poor between cities with exploding airports. Obama should be looking at high speed rail to connect the nation, it'll only help make it cheaper to improve city transportation in the end. GM should re-tool their plants to build high speed rails.

I write in Perl almost everyday. They should build in a lot of the CPAN modules so that they will be documented better (with another camel) and I won't have to dig on CPAN for things a lot of new languages come with out of the box. Yes, it's easy to install modules, but many are almost standards at this point and should be brought into the language.

In ecommerce, it's Sunday and Monday that have the heaviest traffic days. Friday and Saturday are the lightest. Oddly enough, it seems although Sunday may be a heavy traffic day, it's not a day people like to buy on - they'd rather buy on Monday, which is why you'll see most of your spam marketing on Monday. This is unlike other non-ecommerce web sites I've worked with, when it's more of a browsing web site for information or entertainment it seems like Thursdays are better... don't take my experiences as science though, I'm just a small fish in big surf.

It's the JCL that will kill you, the COBOL is brain dead easy if you can program in any other language.