http://blogs.purpleiguanasoftware.com/ en-us 40 Obscurata Craptacula comments <p>Several times today I&#8217;ve heard people say that Expedia&#8217;s earnings disappointment was &#8220;a bad sign for tech stocks,&#8221; or that it could, or should, or did &#8220;trigger a retreat in tech stocks.&#8221;</p> <p>I don&#8217;t know why. A hundred years ago, if Sears-Roebuck hit a soft spot in the mail order catalog retail business, did the feckless, chattering, financial news classes, in whatever primeval form they then existed, burst forth to warn of a bad signs for the pulp and paper industry?</p> Fri, 12 May 2006 13:45:00 PDT <a href="/articles/2006/05/12/tech-stocks-retreat">"Tech Stocks Retreat!"</a> <a href="/articles/2006/05/12/tech-stocks-retreat">"Tech Stocks Retreat!"</a>