As a former AOL employee, I look at Yahoo Japan and think what could have been.

 Yahoo Japan is in the broadband distribution business; the portal business; the auctions business; the e-commerce business; the personals business; the search business; and is the only true integrated access/content/utilities business with multiple revenue streams. They have used acquisitions very smartly and rolled up the value chain of companies in the right way. They have beaten off all competitors and have big market share in each segment. They are highly profitable; have built great value and they have NOT been disintermediated at all by more nimble competitors. They are a great case study of the power of all-in-one services and support. The most interesting rumor out there is that they will enter the fray to buy out their parent and compete with Microsoft to acquire Yahoo. Yahoo Japan is traded as a separate company on the Japanese trading exchange. They have the balance sheet to do it. "The son becomes the father."

Yeeooww! What a way to ruin a night. I watched the NHL Channel and they had a classics playoff recap of the Caps vs. Tampa Bay.

 What an amazing playoff series, our last I might note. What an awful way to lose a series. We did have an amazing power play unit though – with Bondra, Gonchar, Lang, Jagr and Nylander - didn

Yikes. Check this out. By the way, there is no NHL Death Watch blog in the blogosphere.

We have played 60 games. We have 62 points. How are we NOT playing at a 500 percent pace?

We have played 60 games. We have 62 points. How are we NOT playing at a 500 percent pace? If we lost every game in OT, we would have no wins for the season - zero – and 82 points and we would have played at a 500 pace, no? What am I missing?

I hope this was a set-up and a gag. If not, how sad and dumb.