How urban legends are born

Those who are impatient for more technology coverage and are bothered that I actually have a life can look forward to a big column coming this evening. For the rest of you here’s something wonderful and funny that happened last night.

That’s my wife, the young and lovely Mary Alyce, in one of her less flattering photos. She shot it late last night with the camera in her phone.

Mary Alyce’s parents have been living with us the last three months as her father’s health fails after 20+ years with Parkinson’s Disease. I became America’s highest-paid home health aide. Earlier this week he moved into hospice and almost immediately into a coma from which he is not […]

Til death do us part: Sony and the credit card companies

Remember, after the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, those stories about wallets filled with money being found and turned-in to the authorities, still stuffed with cash? That’s one positive aspect of Japanese culture, but does it also make them too trusting? Sony’s loss of first 77 million customer records and now another 24.6 million suggests that may be the case. A society with low crime rates and comic book criminals screams of unsophistication, which was confirmed for me this week when I heard from a reader who is a payment system auditor. He looks inside Japanese institutions and often doesn’t like what he sees.

“For whatever reason (low crime […]