I accept your perspective, TeeGee. I think we could look at a middle ground between appealing to the shiny magpies of speculation (as you say, we shouldn't be totally ignorant to it out of principle) and the longer term positioning of DNOTES as actual money. There should be elements of both because we're operating on numerous timescales. There is the short-term speculative cycle and the longer term operational objectives, but we should be mindful to appease both because they're both important as we move forwards. I think of it like building a skyscraper. The architectural vision and engineering can be painstakingly slow to reach a world-class conclusion, but let us not forget the army of sales people who must find tenants for the 100 floors of glittering steel and glass! Just because we build it, doesn't mean they'll come. That's a dangerous supposition.

Right now I see NOTE as a lofty idealist architectural firm. The vision is good, if as-yet not well-defined in terms of specifics. We need some boots on the ground in the sales and marketing department too. That's real.

I think the best thing we can do is to define our value proposition. Find out who we are, what we're doing and why. Decide on a couple of objectives, but more importantly figure out exactly how we intend to get there and more importantly, why anyone else should follow us - giving the answer in as tangible, way as possible. Up to now it's been really vague and high-level. I think it's time to get specific and detail-oriented.

I'll write up my technical thoughts later