We're first and foremost about the business of writing better and the business of writing. Both are critical for the want-to-be writer as well as the old pro.

It officially states that when events come to the Civic, we'll inherently be part of the staffing. This is very specific, and it reaffirms that what we do there is vital. It would be too difficult for the city to go out and find freelance people.

There is no doubt that companies are more aware than ever before about the importance of business continuity assurance. But we think this survey also uncovers several areas where perceptions of the barriers for making it happen are a bit skewed and where even enlightened IT teams need to adopt better practices.

With most other offerings, you have to buy separate hardware accelerators to achieve the same performance levels that our software-only solution delivers. For 20% of the cost, our customers get the same or better performance across their WANs as well as the option to add high availability clusters for comprehensive application protection.

In all you're seeing sort of a mixed reaction out there. The oil data was good because of the distillates, but you're still seeing oil prices higher because of demand. And we're seeing a lot of volatility across the board.

People are starting to wonder if this late-summer decline is for real.