I have been reading about the dot.crash. Over the past eighteen months I was recruited reasonablly heavily by some US companies, and people in Toronto. It was an odd sequence of things for me because after my one surreal trip to San Francisco I said, "I'm there," and then that company reorganized, and then all the other calls were from the midwest or New York or Toronto, or the job wasn't quite right, or they wanted Cold Fusion, or it wasn't Yahoo. It took me too long to figure out something like what I wanted (something I am still doing) and I didn't want to take off with D in the middle of her Ph.D. So now I'm not laid off, but without the accompanying adventure.