The Advanced Micro Devices conference call after the market close (Wednesday) convinced us that the typically seasonally weak [first quarter] will be unusually strong this year.

The last time this happened in the Pacific Northwest, the geologists tell us, was 1701 so no one in our lifetime has seen it happen,

It shows severe disrespect to us.

Pushing for law revisions and not pressing Chinese authorities to hold talks with us under parity, this would be mistaking the means for the end.

Based on the latest pre-announcements from Gateway and Hewlett-Packard, the depth of the downturn in December 2000 was deeper than we would have thought, even after a downbeat field trip to Taiwan,

Someone who doesn't know the industry would think that Microsoft is the worst thing since Attila the Hun.