Am I totally happy, or a total tech geek? Photo shot from about 5,000 feet in the air with my Verizon 8100 v-Cast music enabled camera phone. Download 0108061654.3g2 (QT video) Video shot with the same. Is it pure happiness that made me pull high (9k feet) and enjoy the view of San Diego, the Pacific Ocean, Tijuana, and the mountains, or am I just a geek who jumped with his cell phone? You decide.

Kara Swisher writes how CES was a show of sound and fury, signifying nothing. And I’m blogging mobile on my way to the airport, so apologies for lack of a link.

Steve "I have to blog every four minutes because I’m a junkie" Rubel is reporting on his blog about rumors that Steve Ballmer is about to step down from Microsoft and be replaced by none other than Bill Clinton. Words fail me.

You know there are too many booth babes at a show when I say there are too many booth babes at a show. This show gets bigger and bigger every year – to the point where you just ask if it’s too much… But it’s kind of like Heroin. This is my 7th CES show – and as much as I don’t want to go again, you know I will. Sigh. Saw my friends from Phone Scoop again, saw Jason Calacanis, and a bunch of other old friends. Always nice. Verizon really went all out for this event – parties, closed down Nobu, Maroon 5 and Yellowcard, press conferences at Hard Rock, I’d love to know how much money they [...]

More details later, but VZ Wireless’s press conference at the Hard Rock at CES is an amazing production.