group. yannic silver is the founder of internet lifestyle.com and steven corn sl the owner of brownies hardway store in san francisco who we profiled here on your business back in 2006. nice to see you again. nice to see you, too. back then we were talking about health care and how you provided health care benefits for your employees. what s your outlook right now? are things really hard for you? i don t think they re hard, but they certainly are flat. you have to look a lot more to where i can make some more money. and are you finding new places or is that tricky as well? not so much finding new places but relooking at the places that we ve always done and sort of mining those a little bit more. gene, so in your article, you basically said times like these make you focus on what s important. yeah, they do. nowadays, you talk about the economic strengths that are here. i mention in my new york times column it was actually a blog written by somebody else who