Spencer F. Katt

The Kitty was back on the foggy streets of San Francisco trawling for tips in the citys bistros and coffee shops. Before getting down to serious business, however, the tippling Tabby spent an evening at Bix, a supper club near Jackson Square, where he sampled a glass or so of absinthe, the seductive green liquor […]

The grizzled Grimalkin has been nosing around the software industry since Lotus 1-2-3 was a twinkle in Mitch Kapors eye. Spencer has seen software companies rise to become huge cash-generating machines. He has seen even more once-promising companies crash into heaps of smoking hex code. But the industry has changed irreversibly when a software company […]

Ever the loyal and long-suffering Red Sox fan, Spencer can be forgiven if he spent some time last week lording it over the Yankees fans among his friends after the Beantown team had won its second World Series in four years. “This is how dynasties are built,” exulted the preening Puss as he noted that […]

The grape harvest is taking longer than usual in the unseasonably chilly and damp northern California wine country, where Spencer took time out to do some serious sampling. Its well-known that the oenophile Feline loves the taste of the grape, even the tangy sour vintages that his sources occasionally serve up as he gads about […]

Determined to get in sync with the green movement, the eco-friendly feline was going to devote a weekend to learning what he can do to reduce his carbon paw print. He started out by renting three essential consciousness-raising videos—”An Inconvenient Truth,” “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and Wes Cravens “Swamp Thing.” Alas, the videos were […]

“There must be something to this Web 2.0 stuff,” quoth the Kitty as he sorted through this weeks collation of tips and rumors. The Fastidious Feline has always been suspicious of any designated technology trend cooked up mostly by market analysts and industry sales departments. The Web 2.0 moniker usually sends Spencers FUD-O-Meter buzzing because […]

“P.S., I love you, you, you, you,” crooned the Mouser, mop-top-like, as he read the morose missive from AmeriTrade detailing how his personal info may have been compromised due to some unauthorized code in the online brokerages systems that allowed client information “to be retrieved by an external source.” After recently receiving similar notes from […]

Well I told you baby from time to time, but you just wouldnt listen or pay me no mind, and now Im movin on, Im rollin on,” hummed His Hirsuteness—Hank Snow-like—as a pal told him about Bill Gates recent goodbye speech to the Microserfs. Gates, who plans to quit his day job at Microsoft in […]

“They did the mash, they did the monster mash,” droned the dulcet-toned Drudge as a pal told him about the ongoing attacks against Monster.com and its users. The employment Web site itself claims the attack is called “Infostealer.Monstres,” but security experts say it isnt just a vanilla hack, but rather a malware mashup that includes […]

Therell be peace in the valley for me, someday,” sang the dulcet-toned Drudge, Elvis-like. The Kitty wasnt hung over from the recent Elvis week in Memphis but instead was contemplating the aftermath of SCOs major court defeat in its ongoing Linux IP battles. “This must feel similar to the end of WWII for Linux lovers,” […]

“We all live in a yellow submarine,” brayed the Beatle-esque Baron of Babble when a gal pal told him Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recently plunked down $12 million for his own personal 40-foot yellow submarine. “Funny, in the movie Yellow Submarine, the Beatles found the Sea of Holes, and Allen made his fortune by helping […]

“Bluejean bop a baby, bluejean bop—baby, wont you bop with Gene,” sang El Gato, channeling the late rocker Gene Vincent when a buddy told him that IBMs Blue Gene/L topped the Top 500 supercomputer list for the fourth year in a row. The Rockabilly Rumormonger was spending an extended Fourth of July holiday at the […]