See pic of an 11-foot 8-inch bus that tried to go through a 9-foot tunnel because driver's GPS unit told him to.

Stop all the fuss. Soon it won't matter.
(Or, Beware the Cloud!)

It's a lot more fun when writers respond to the comments on their articles submitted by readers.

It's happening. Governments are getting involved in Internet censorship, and that can't be good.

In an episode of The Office, branch manager Michael follows directions from his GPS device -- despite the warnings of his passenger -- and drives his car into a lake.

That turns out to be art imitating life. These things actually seem to happen fairly often.

FIOS is ordered. Goodbye Comcast/Vonage. What can I expect, besides disaster?

My boss just said we're moving to Macs. I don't know if he was serious, but it might really happen -- he's a bona-fide, born-again Mac zealot, after decades of using real computers (he even had his own, successful Windows-centric newsletter).

I joked that I'll switch to a Mac after they pry the PC from my cold, stiff fingers. In reality, I'll just go along with the program and lose about 30% in productivity.

Current issues of Newsweek and Wired offer two opposite views of the Second Life virtual world.

Newsweek's article, "Alternate Universe," is overwhelmingly positive, claiming that "Second Life is emerging as a powerful new medium for social interactions of all sorts, from romance to making money. It may be the Internet's next big thing."

Wired's article, "How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life," is decidedly negative, stating that the environment is largely empty, hindered by nonscalable technology and boring.

Are you struggling through a difficult Vista implementation?  Irritated by end users' chronic password forgetfulness? Challenged by constantly evolving nature of network security threats? We want to hear what your biggest networking hassles are now and how you are managing them.

Our networking freelancer Greg Schaffer was lambasted by several Linux fans after OSNews picked up his article, "A networking pro lists five reasons you need Fedora Core 6 Linux."

Showing he's a real pro in more ways than one, Greg remained above the fray and posted a polite clarification of the intent of his article. OSNews listed some 36 comments on the article when I last checked.

But if you can, welcome to the club. You're cool -- or at least young.

Use of this "elite speak" or "1337 speak " further points out the divide between today's "digital youth" and the aging Baby Boomers.

I spoke about it in my "Bitter old man rails against today's youth culture" rant, which generated several replies, some quite well-reasoned.

A co-worker subsequently pointed out a Slashdot entry titled "Paper is for old people."

Call me a curmudgeon, but I'm getting sick of this "today's youth is different" crap.

All this garbage about how they are children of the digital age and just take to technology naturally and don't know of a time before the Internet.

I heard it all again this weekend in Washington D.C. at a conference of the Online News Association. One of the presentations, "Multitasking youth detail news consumption habits", was meant to show us how plugged-in today's young people are and how we in the media business just don't understand them and continue to misfire in reaching them with our old ways.

The bad guys are now in it for the money. That changes everything.

Forget the teen hobbyists; the new purveyors of malware and other bad stuff can buy coders who are as good as anybody out there.

And they don't launch a broadcast attack and sit around waiting to see if it works. They study, they target, they plan and they execute, always changing tactics and techniques to stay ahead of Symantec, McAfee and the like.

Welcome to the big leagues.

Bert Latamore interviewed one networking pro who decided a new approach was needed to fight these guys.

Wow, dire news out of Las Vegas!

Every day brings word of a serious new security threat from the Black Hat conference.

The latest: your Xerox printers are at risk. I'm serious.

Before that, we learned people who read blogs are vulnerable. As are MacBook users. Along with Network Access Control products.

 Wireless users are becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of simple, unified communications options for their far-flung field forces.

This week's article "Wi-Fi/Cellular at Crossroads" confirms my impression garnered from attending the recent Mobile & Wireless World conference: users want simpler options.

With conference presenters often talking about great new and upcoming technologies ("Speed thrills: The future of wireless") several attendees would ask them more mundane questions about how to just manage the billing for the multiple carrier contracts they had to use for complete coverage or how to manage the exploding variety of devices connecting to their networks.