Almost as stagnant as book technology. Give me a huge break. Show the text. Provide a way to turn pages. The current Kindle is great and does a simple thing well.

I hear it over and over -- I'd run Linux if I could play games.

Of course, Mark Shuttleworth and Unity, Gnome3, and KDE are trying their best to kill it too. It's getting harder and harder to find a good windows manager on Linux.

For a while, Bastardi was showing up on CNBC quite regularly -- this was 3 or 4 years ago. After he became semi-regular he made a big stink about how much snow was going to fall over the ensuing month or two. This was based on "hi-tech" scientific methodogy, according to Bastardi. He talked the announcer, Joe Kernan, into a fairly big bet. Kernan wasn't really interested in betting but Bastardi made quite a stink about it. Anyway, Bastardi ended up being completely wrong -- he was so discredited they stopped inviting him on the show.

Google is pretty cool, and they have a lot of smart people working there. They are churning out a lot of stuff and it's pretty chaotic. It's like they are using a sort of an open source model where lots of people are throwing stuff at the board to see what sticks. In most companies, there is an orchestrated attempt to strive for a goal. That's not apparent at Google. It will be interesting to see if Google can grow their business from all these little gadgets or if it just turns out to be a big waste of time, effort and money.