"What's going on in the Valley ?" used to be a fairly regular question. Now that there are many high volume sources of "news" it doesn't get asked so often. As part of my ongoing attempt to filter the meaningful from the merely faddish, the plan for this year's blogging will be to collect pointers to useful indicators.

Three categories, each of which has systematic effects on the others
- technology trends
- investment and money trends
- actual physical goods and services trends

Today the big event was that it rained. This is the first time that there has been enough rain that it actually wets the ground under the big coast oaks in our garden since November. California is having drought - what http://www.weatherwest.com/ describes as the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge.