No sleep til Brooklyn

I cut, paste, and edit my computer life, operate email, write software, and invest. I have great expectations for tomorrow. Until then, my main goal is to be a positive influence on the lives of the people I love and fully participate in this mystery we call .... life.

brian-gladden.jpgWith his stock splintering, Dell CFO Brian Gladden didn’t beat around the bush this afternoon: “We saw a very weak August,” he said in a fireside chat at a Bank of America investor conference. This August — a slow month every year — was “weaker than usual.” And business hasn’t “snapped back in September.”

Specifically weak: Small and medium businesses in the U.S., state and local government, Western Europe, the U.K., Southern Europe, China, and small businesses in Japan.

Dell stock…