To: ralfph who wrote (979 ) 6/19/2001 3:08:57 PM From: marcos Respond to of 8273 qbx.v/ite.to - Cubix drifts up before iTech, imho ... it has some questionable stuff too, but more reality in it, and selling at a much lower percentage of book value ... really all i like about iTech is the cash that's left and Enviromation, and don't know enough about current details of the latter to judge its value ... elas.naz is one of the efforts cut loose by Nortel recently, i heard [haven't seen a story on that though] .... no rush to add ite, imho ... maybe no rush for qbx either, who knows ... but i can't see it getting a lot cheaper, whereas a stink bid well under current level could maybe pick up some ite over the summer ... had to overcome sentimental attachment to admit that, but it's the way i'm playing them Mountains - ah ... one fine April morning about ten years ago a friend and i decided to assault the highest point of England, which would seem an achievable goal although a little more ambitious than the Netherlands which top out a little over a hundred metres ... lovely sunny dawn, so to cut weight i decided to stick with jeans and a t-shirt, light Goretex raincoat and light sweater rolled up, camera, water, sandwich, couple of beers for the top, and that's all ... well about two thirds of the way everything went black just like somebody turned the lights out, no warning, then about fifteen seconds later it began to pour an ice-cold rain through a thick fog ... couldn't see twenty metres ... got to the top, drank the beers, took half a dozen fotos, laughed and headed back down ... then we run into this skookum english girl in sensible shoes who tells us we're coming down the trail from Sca Fell, and not from Sca Fell Pike, which is a few metres higher ... and so we never made the top of the country ... next time ... it's definitely the place to get fotos of fog Hard to concentrate on stocks in June, but i would say my aur.to is about to come back up from successful testing of its ~2.85 support