Aug. 14, 2006, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Past weeks

GOOD: Another business card milestone

Remember the first time you saw an e-mail address, IM address or cell phone number on a business card? Wiki expert Andrew Lih says he may be the first to have his Wikipedia user name on his business card: Fuzheado.

Click to see: You're fired!

Network technology sure can be cold. A 21-year-old saleswoman in United Kingdom was fired last week via text message that day after she called in sick with a migraine headache. The message on her cell phone informed the woman that her services where no longer needed because her sales figures were down. The company said it tried to phone her several times, but left the text message when it couldn't reach her.

UGLY: Déjà vu for the VA

A desktop PC containing the personal information of up to 36,000 U.S. military veterans has gone missing from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs subcontractor Unisys, the VA announced last week. The announcement comes after the VA said in late May that a laptop and hard drive containing the personal data of 26.5 million veterans and their spouses was stolen from a VA analysts' home. Police recovered the laptop and hard drive in late June.