I visited our offices in Germany, France and England this week (Tuesday-Thursday). Many readers know we have acquired several businesses in Europe and have been weaving them together. This is a tough job, but it is working. We now have new and integrated in offices in each of these countries. We have enthusiastic and integrated teams for sales and image production. The fruits of these labors should start to come to the surface during the remainder of the year. I must say how thrilled we are with the calibre of the employees we have in these countries. While these trips are difficult it makes the journey much easier when one encounters such enthusiasm.

I see that during the week that AOL finally put into place the strategy that I suggested last December - that is making most of their ISP service free. What a good move! My wife is an avid AOL user and she made the switch to the free service yesterday. When she called the telephone number at AOL to make the change, she was told she was number 275 in line for service. The whole process took 45 minutes - not too bad for getting AOL for free.