Nice images Frank! You certainly know how to remind us of the non-business benefits of attending summits - what a view! :).

Hey world traveler! Being in Istanbul you are now half way to Guam. If you pass through here on your way home my wife has a listing of a private beach house for $300k she can show you. With a little sprucing up it will rent for $2,200. I can even let you stay in the house for free while you are here and you can watch the spinner dolphins jumping out of the water while you are relaxing on the couch in the house. Here is a link to the house. http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/run_public_link.html&public_link_tech_id=rgqwe6d9yby&s=8&id=1&cid=1

Also while you are here I can show you my invention that has the potential to make a $Billion a year in royalties. Then you will be officially part of the secret squirrel club.

Have you been following the news regarding Palm at all? They are looking for a buyer because they are in danger of going out of business.

Palm says it has $500million in the bank. I offered to save Palm for the very low price of $1million. I contacted Elevation Partners. They are the VC firm that invested over $400million in Palm and own a third of it and have two Partners on Palm's Board.

I offered them my user interface invention that you hold and operate with only one hand just like you would a television remote control; but you will type and edit graphics just as fast as if you were using two hands on a full size keyboard and mouse. It only takes one day to learn compared to the two months most people take to develop their typing speed on a full size keyboard.

When my invention is built into a smartphone people will throw away their keyboard and mouse and use their smartphone to operate their desktop, laptop, home entertainment center, and so on.

That's how you kill the iPhone; you make it obsolete; you bypass it and go directly to the customer instead of fighting with the iPhone.

Without ever looking at my invention, these Palm board members turned me down saying it is not a good fit for Elevation Partners. That's funny because the last time Palm had the best hand controls they became the first smartphone to be offered by all five major service providers and their stock price jumped more than tripling to over $30. But now Palm says it's not a good fit to repeat the success of having the best hand controls.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The old saying is definitely true; you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

At least one analyst says Palm will get $10 to $14 a share from a buyer but most seem to be saying Palm will get $0. Either way it's less than $30.

I understand why a VC would be reluctant to deal with a guy like me, a nobody in a Merizo beach house. But you would think when they stand to lose almost half a billion dollars of their limited partner's money, employees are jumping ship, and they are paying quarter of a million dollar bonuses to their executives who agree to stay until the bitter end, you would think with all that going on a different set of protocols are in order.

Good luck to the limited partners of Elevation Partners. The elevation of their shares is indeed looking limited.

If anyone including Apple is interested, I'm selling a one third interest in the iPhone killer for $1million.

Mat