I love that it snowed last night on the upper mountain at Whistler. Summer is wonderful in the mountains, but the first signs of a shift to fall -- cooler nights, surprise snowfalls, etc. – always make my heart beat a little faster.

The current picture from Whistler’s Roundhouse webcam is here.

I’m sure this will be useful to some people, but there is something about this “Grovel at Jack Welch’s Feet” event coming up in Boston that rankles.

And $10,000 a person for 100 people, that’s …. hang on … carry the ones … add back the zeros … whoa, one million dollars. Shades of Dr. Evil.

A quick roundup of some of the more useful images and storm tracks for Hurricane Tropical Storm Gustav. Now southwest of Haiti, it is currently projected to makes its way into the heart of the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico by Monday. Upper-level winds are low, so there is minimal shear, and the Gulf is only marginally less warm than the average home spa, so there is lots of reason to expect Gustav will become Cat 3 or stronger by landfall Sunday/Monday.

The sole caution: Storm tracks that go between Yucatan and Cuba are notoriously prone to wild changes of course -- wait, I want to go to the Mexican Riviera! -- so it’s going to be a few days before it’s obvious where Gustav is going to end up.

Accuweather

Planalytics

National Hurricane Center

Just in case no-one else has noticed, apparently all is well with the homebuilders. After spending the last few months in the doldrums (and spiking way up earlier this year), the S&P Homebuilders SPDR is now almost back to breakeven for the year.

I guess everything’s now okay. Build on!

I happened to notice the following today. Has there been another period since the Google IPO when Microsoft led Google in stock performance over so many periods?