What's left to say about HP? You can't shake the free TouchPad you got with your bowl of soup without hitting someone laughing at the company for firing Leo Apotheker, who'd been on the job for all of 11 months, and hiring of ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman.

Don't worry about Apotheker. He's taking home for his troubles. The Macalope says "cool," because it was practically theft.

Weren't we just talking about this two weeks ago? Yeah, see, ! You guys remember, you were there. It was a Saturday morning and you were wearing your jammies and sipping coffee and the Macalope was wearing a suit and on the Internet.

People were actually . If you work it out to a monthly basis, Apotheker got paid 70 percent of what Cook's getting. And the guy conducted what amounts to a rockstar-style hotel-room trashing of HP, promising to sell HP's profitable hardware business and kill a promising technology, webOS, that it had only recently paid a boatload of money for. All in order to turn the company into a software and services business like the one he failed to run at SAP.