I am posting from Tokyo. I have been here for a day and later today I go to Sydney. We are developing some nice new image services in Japan and we look forward to rolling these out shortly.

You get to spend a lot of time reading on the longhaul flights out to the Asia-Pacific region. I flew ANA from Los Angeles and they have neat Internet service onboard. I came across an interesting speech from Steve Weitzner, CEO of CMP Media. I found it interesting to read Steve's remarks about Comdex probably not being resurrected (CMP recently purchased the company that previously oversaw the death of Comdex). I agree with this philosophy. Many readers know that our company took on Comdex in 2003 and probably helped cement its death. There is no need to ever see Comdex again. Vertically focused trade shows are the gold standard today and perhaps for years to come.

I also suggest reading the May 1 issue of FORTUNE magazine which has an article by Adam Lashinsky that deals with the new boom in Internet stocks. The article digs up some high flyer names from the late 1990s and compares the fates of those companies with the high flyers of today.