NYTimes is bullish on Seattle's tech sector

The New York Times has an article about the technology scene in Seattle that echoes the one in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about Google that I posted about recently. It mentions the opening of the Google research lab in Fremont too. It also talks about the increase of venture capital coming to Seattle, and it talks about the importance of the University of Washington to what's going on in the tech sector here. Pretty good punchline, too: 'Mr. Etzioni says Seattle has at least one advantage over its storied counterpart in California. “People aren’t distracted by too much sunshine,“ he said. “They sit in their offices or garages and get creative.”' That was actually an argument used about the music scene back in the grunge era, come to think of it. I guess the weather explains everything that happens here. Or could it be the only thing people know about Seattle?