Spencer F. Katt

Spencer felt right at home last week at the Oakland Coliseum, where the Superfan Feline celebrated the start of baseball season by watching his personal favorite Boston Red Sox beat the Athletics. It looked like the majority of the fans in the mostly empty stadium were transplanted New Englanders, who, like the Truant Tabby, were […]

The Grizzled Grimalkin spent some time in Silicon Valley last week reminiscing with old friends—some of whom he hadn’t seen in years. The Hyperkinetic Kitty had to go all the way to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to look up his former boon companions: the Commodore 64, the Apple II, the original […]

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 […]