We were approached by the DOJ and had a conversation with them. While we can't go into the details or specifics, it did pertain to eBay and issues involving our universal search product.

This is not so much about being anti-competitive as anti-consumer. It about the Internet and has implications for e-commerce overall. The Internet is about freedom of information, to go out, search and find information.

We did not actively search them (the DOJ) out; they approached us.

I remember how devastated the family was standing around him and he was the one trying to make conversation so we'd feel better. He can be pretty stoic. He doesn't really show frustration or disappointment.

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a conversation with herself and she was quite the raconteur. She would tell herself a joke and clap her hands together as she let out a laugh; she would murmur to the plants as she watered them, and offer encouragement to the food as she cooked it. Sometimes I would walk into a room and surprise her as she was regaling herself with some delightful story, and I remember how the sound would dry up in her mouth. She stood there, frozen in the headlights of my teenage scorn.