April 18th: too much happening

What a strange day for change, April 18th, 2005.
Good news: Adobe finally buys Macromedia. Way back when, Adobe bought Aldus; they had competing graphic design products; Adobe Illustrator and Aldus Freehand; IMO, freehand was far superior. Oddly, I believe freehand was later sold off to Macromedia. In any case, this is a good pairing of niche software players pairing to become stronger.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/050418/tech_macromedia.html?.v=3

Tyler Hamilton.
Sadly, he is being suspended for 2 years for blood doping claims. I hope Tyler moves on with training and comes back to win the TDF. Poor guy is so focused on proving innocence, he may loose his love for the sport, and may end up too old to win.
http://www.tylerhamilton.com/home1.html

Lance Armstrong.
So he says he's going to retire after this year's Tour de France. I seriously doubt it. He'll stay on to try and break the one hour record, that's my bet.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050418/sp_nm/cycling_armstrong_dc_8

My boss quits.
My boss, director of production, called it quits today. Same day our new Senior Director of production started. Should be an interesting remainder of the year.

4/19/05-Yahoo will announce 1st Quarter earnings. Hope they blow the cover off and the innovations are called out. Ebay will likely disappoint and Google will be mediocre; they also announce this week. Expect yahoo to end the week unchanged, somewhere around $32.50.