Note there is additional new material at the end of this column — Bob
I am old — so old that when I was a college freshman there were dormitories filled with men and others filled with women but no dormitories at all filled with both men and women, at least not where I went to school. The women had it so bad that there was literally a time clock for signing-in and -out under the stern gaze of an old biddy tending the front desk — a desk she was determined that I, in particular, would NEVER get past.
What happened to Second Life? The 3-D virtual world from Linden Lab is still very much around but I don’t spend much time there, do you? Second Life has peaked. And there is something to be learned from this transition.
Sales of video game consoles and video game software are down this year as are sales of DVDs, none of which are supposed to happen in a recession. Hollywood thrived during the Great Depression, remember? And now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control 
Readers have lately been asking me to write about IBM. It seems the BBC has been 