Online romances & happy endings

Scott & I met online in a chatroom, and with 1,200 miles separating us (him in New Hampshire and me in Tennessee), I don't know what we would have done without instant messaging. I'll never forget the evening he asked if I had MSN Messenger. Not a day went by that we didn't talk. Messaging took a backseat to the telephone calls soon thereafter. Hours on end. By May of this year, he moved to Tennessee. There were so many times I cursed this computer, cursed the Internet, cursed the phone company. But without them, we never would have met, never would have had a chance to know what true love and happiness is. It was all worth it. Strange thing happened today at the hospital...one of the ladies I work with (divorced) asked how I met my fiance. When I said we met online, she said "You know, I've been thinking about trying to meet someone online...how do you do that?" So I pointed her in a couple of directions, gave some stern motherly advice about the crazies out there, and wished her luck. Who knows? Maybe she'll find that special man in cyberspace waiting just for her. There's so much to our online story (mine & Scott's), that someday soon I hope to write more about it. If it can happen for us, it can happen for anyone else....

4:18:54 PM     

Hot laptop burns willie

A man's laptop horribly burned his genitals. I can't find a single paragraph from this story that I'm willing to quote -- for fear that some of you might be eating. Suffice it to say that the words "crust," "suppurate," "blister" and "scrotal" all figure heavily. Link Discuss (Thanks, Miladus!) [Boing Boing Blog]

YIKES!!

4:06:53 PM     

When Deborah Fraser's credit card number was stolen, the thief didn't use it to buy a new car or a high-end laptop. Instead, the number was used to buy something potentially much more valuable--a domain name with the word eBay in it.

In Fraser's case, that was the domain name "change-ebay.com," a scam Web site where an unknown number of eBay users may have been tricked into handing over their eBay username and password.

[Privacy Digest]

4:00:35 PM