Spencer F. Katt

The 80s seemed like a distant, lost dream as el gato sat at the Moscone Center in San Francisco last week. His Hirsuteness never expected to see rocker Pat Benatar, the dream girl of his youth, on stage during the opening keynote for the RSA Security Conference. Alas, the Kittys glee turned to gloom when […]

While walking into Comdex in Chicago last week, El Gato got the strange feeling he might bump into waste management king Tony Soprano. Thats because the Waste Expo was going on in the conference center across the hallway. Maybe its a sign of the times, but the Katt cant remember the last time a major […]

At last weeks Windows Hardware Developers Conference in Anaheim, the Furball wondered if schlockmeister John Waters hadnt taken over the PR chores for Microsoft. Certainly the video presentation by Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division, seemed like an outtake from Waters infamous film “Pink Flamingos.” While videos of Gates and Ballmer in […]

His hirsuteness thought intel CEO Craig Barrett seemed a bit grumpy when he took the stage as a keynote speaker at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas last week. Barretts mood was most likely due to the introduction he received from CTIA CEO Tom Wheeler. The obviously tone-deaf Wheeler introduced Barrett by saying anyone […]

As the Katt traveled out west recently, he felt like one of the pioneers when he cast his gaze across the wide-open expanses. Unfortunately, the Kitty was standing on the concourse of the Los Angeles Convention Center during last weeks Internet World show. Not only was attendance sparse and the vendor booths a bit spread […]

Last weeks news that Microsoft plans to offer its 1,000 largest U.S. Windows 2000 customers access to that operating systems source code got the Puss pondering about whether this could be the start of Microsofts adventure into an open-source environment. But a closer examination of the issue made it abundantly clear that this is not […]

When reports began to roll in about the Seattle earthquake last week, the Kitty couldnt help but wonder whether the seismic vibrations were Gods way of trying to help the Feds break up Microsoft or if Gates had just dropped his wallet. El Gato hears there may be a whole lotta shakin goin on for […]

El Gato was giddy when he read that the Federal Trade Commission had shut down Electronic Domain Name Monitoring. The Katt warned readers in his Nov. 13 column about the bogus company. At the time, EDNM was faxing Webmasters false information that a third party was trying to register their companies names with another top-level […]

Spencer wondered if the post-presidential lecture circuit would make Bill Clinton enough cash to finally buy furniture for his New York digs. One of Clintons first speaking engagements finds the ex-prez delivering the opening keynote at the Oracle AppsWorld show in New Orleans this week. A trusty Tabby tattler tells El Gato that Citizen Bill […]

The puss was perplexed as he wove through the lengthy online service agreement at Juno.com. According to the agreement, the companys “free” Internet service may have “costs” the user doesnt expect. In the obligations section of the agreement, the document states that “Juno may require you to leave your computer turned on at all times” […]

What could Microsoft executives have been up to last week as they lurked in the hallways of the Javits Center in New York during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, pondered the Katt. “Just a few short years ago, they wouldnt have been caught dead at a gathering of engineering geeks who were discussing a fringe […]

Spencer was avoiding his deadlines and web surfing as usual when he accidentally hit upon the George W. Bush/ Albert Gore collectors coin at www.washingtonmint.com. The official-looking silver coin depicts Bush as 43rd president on one side and bestows the same honor on Gore on the other side. The Minnesota-based independent mint created the coin […]