We're expanding our total available markets dramatically and we're now able to offer customers at the high end of the network all the chips that they need to be able to put together a system from fiber-optic cable connecting into a router or a switch.

New order activity has remained weak throughout the quarter and our overall backlog has declined. The magnitude of this downturn is greater than we, or our customers anticipated, and the progress in reducing excess inventory in the channel appears to be slower than they originally thought.

Current business conditions continue to be very poor.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.