A look at Apple's second quarter unit sales: "Apple on Wednesday offered results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2004. The company posted a US$46 million profit on more than $1.9 billion in total revenue, moving 749,000 computers in the process." [MacCentral]

I always go for the Apple base station, myself, when recommending these to clients: - They can be bridged so that signals get repeated and can travel farther. External antennas have proven to be a complete failure at extending signals, according to my experience (and according to EVERY review for these antennas - Dr. Bott has some explaining to do!). - The hig-end model has PRINTER SHARING built in, and it's ridiculously simple. Plug a USB printer into the base station, and it just shows up in every Mac's Print dialog via Rendezvous. - Setup is usually under three minutes, and then it just works, forever. PC-oriented Linksys and others simply can't compete. It can take HOURS in a mixed Mac and PC environment to set up PC-oriented wireless hardware. Sure, you can buy a cheap base station, but you get what you pay for. I like the Apple base station because it is a premium item with premium value. There's a big difference between cost and value.

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we waken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.