Interview with Wife of CNET Editor James Kim: surviving a week in the Oregon forest

This is a tough but amazing story of survival. I am so sorry for their loss, but thank God James' wife Mati and family survived to tell this story.

Finally Caught a Spammer

This should go a long ways towards cleaning out that inbox, eh? Billions of spam emails have plagued computer users for YEARS, and now, in 2007, 17+ years after the Internet came online, we proudly announce we have caught out first ever spammer! Alright.

Unfortunately for him, since he's the only one we've caught, he'll have to serve 101 years in prison to make up for all the other spammers we haven't caught yet, but don't worry; more arrests will come. Let's check back with this story in 2024 and see if we have nabbed perpetrator #2 by then.

"Forty-five year old Jeffery Goodin was found guilty of running a running scam that fooled users into giving out personal information. E-mails that Goodin sent out made users believe that they were cooperating with a legitimate business when in fact they were not."

Bad Drivers in Portland?

Ice is not a brand new phenomenon, e.g. ever hear of the Age named after it? But in Portland, apparently it is something of a first as demonstrated by these bad drivers. Although I must confess that in Iowa I did slide into a car on an icy hill, but in my defense the car appeared to me as nothing more than a giant mound of snow... looked safe but there was a CAR hiding under there. It was also 3 a.m. after playing a New Year's gig, as if that's relevant.

Welcome to the Jungle

'Half-Animal' Woman Is Discovered After Spending 19 Years Alone in Cambodian Jungle

Wow - where would we all be without schooling, and family? Makes me wonder about the very first languages spoken - how were they thought of, and how many words were in the vocabulary? And now that we do have so many languages we do our best to pollute and distort them.

AT&T / Cingular / SBC Naming Conventions Explained

At last, thanks to Industry Expert Stephen Colbert, this all makes sense.