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I guess Heraclitus’ real quote is more like “Nothing endures but change” but I’m going to claim poetic license here and stick with “The only constant is change” - because I like the apparent contradiction better. Two events this week drove home the aptness of this quote to me. First we had the announcement that my previous employer LSI was being purchased by Avago. I’m not much of a business person, so I’m not sure quite how to interpret “drive LSI’s operating margins toward Avago’s current levels” but I do know how to interpret a stock price jump from around $8/share to around $11/share! (I believe the technical expression there is “Woo hoo!”) Second, we have a raft of internet news sources reporting that Calxeda is restructuring (or shutting down, depending on whose account you read). I don’t read “restructuring” (as Calxeda is quoted) quite the same as “shutting down”, but hey, we already established that I’m not a business guy. I guess I can’t complain too much about that use of poetic license though since I just exercised it at the top of this posting.

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