Things Have Never Been Better! Seriously! - Lab Notes by ExtremeTech: "Despite the positive attitude of HP and IBM, by all indications this year will be worse than last year. Why? Because the AFC won the Super Bowl and the stock market declined in January—both indicators of a crappy year in the financial markets. Commonly called coincidental indicators, which have nothing, in reality, to do with anything connected to a long-term trend, they're both right over 90 percent of the time."