By Now most everyone has heard of the 276 cars that Oprah Winfrey (actually Pontiac, but it was her show) gave to her audience for "free". The retail of the cars was around $28k. Oh how happy they all were! Then there is the rest of the story. As anyone who has been around longer than the 80s know, nothing in life is free! And indeed, these poor people (I understood that the audience for that show was people in the bottom quarter in terms of income) are finding out the hard way. They ...

Let me see if I have been accurately following this CBS story. They air an article on a subject 30 years old, that has already been beat to death. But this time, they come up with some new evidence. Ok, that looks good. Then the 'new' evidence is found to be forgeries. Oops! Caught with their knickers down. And that was after 5 years of research. Hmmmmm......wondering who was doing the research. Then, after stonewalling for days on the forgeries, do they say "oops, we been had!". Nope, they t...

I have never tried Blogging before, but figured now was a time to get my feet wet. This is supposed to be an intro, so I will just give a thumbnail of who I am. I am a 40ish male in the IT world. Been married twice with 4 children, the oldest 2 in College. I am in charge of a 10k user network, but along with the rest of the staff, thins normally run quietly and smoothly. When they dont, there are a ton of angry users breathing down our necks to fix it NOW. The rest of the time, I en...