The morning after the eviction, teams of cleaning crews with power washers movedin to execute a "deep clean" of the site, which gained a reputation for a foul smell during its four months of operation.
The guy moved markets on Wall Street, and now in Silicon Valley he dazzles venture capital partnerships with his deep technical insight and lightning-quick mind for numbers.
But the diminishment of the Times-Picayune is also flavored with deep irony in an this era of digital disintermediation and newspaper defeat: the New Orleans daily heroically and effectively moved to the Internet to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, providing an early model for online excellence.