About 20 percent of overall respondents say it's hard to find and keep IT personnel, but when you look at the largest companies, 36 percent of them are saying that it's hard to find and keep IT labor. That's been pretty consistent for the last six months.

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

You can go in, in cut-offs and flip-flops, between shows, and not be annoyed by regular people,

Financially, it could be not a bad scenario for holders of Microsoft shares.

They are closing the mine in two weeks, they say. Six days a week bumping down in the gondola, pecking out the rocks and hauling them back up, doing it again the next day for twenty-seven years, one cave-in, three thin raises, and a failed strike. Where am I going to go every day, what am I going to do with all that sunshine?

Your body just feels so much better coming off it. The regular turf we have now just puts a pounding on the body – knees, ankles, everything's hurting.