Obviously, companies split when the stock price has gotten beyond the pocketbook of the average investor.

When we arrive on Monday, we may or may not know the full extent of Hurricane Rita. The stock market can attempt to discount what is discernible, but when it comes to acts of nature, it can only make assumptions.

When you see this kind of quick move, that's a mechanical sell program from one of the brokerages,

I can check the Oracle stock price with this, ... and then maybe decide to pick up some more stock with it.

We calculated it three different ways so nobody can complain. We did it by average price, by median price and then average price per square foot. The reason for price per square foot is if someone goes into a ZIP code and builds 800 or 1,000 condominiums where they traditionally have 2,300-square-foot single-family homes, we didn't want that number to be skewed.

We're just as frustrated as you are with the stock price.