Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz has been telling shareholders that there is a bright future for the company which does not include Microsoft. Bartz assured shareholders that she will polish Yahoo's tarnished brand and end three-year in the financial dole drums.

She said she didn't want to hear any questions about Microsoft whose long running battle to buy Yahoo has become an on again off again affair. She complained about Yahoo's "crappy" ads and concurred with a shareholder who complained about Yahoo posting too many entertainment stories on the front page of its Web site.

"If I see another Britney Spears thing, I am going to throw up," she said. However if shareholders thought she was going to do something more to protect human rights and free speech in China, where the company turned over e-mails that help convict government critics, they were sadly mistaken. Yahoo was not incorporated to fix China, she snarled.

Most of the time however she talked about how Yahoo was going to get its mojo back. We wonder if they have looked behind the back of the sofa yet, mojo's tend to get lost in the weirdest places.