Between cell phones, text-messaging, e-mails and computers, this tells us that if this was a more serious rumor or in a larger city, this kind of thing could really create huge problems.

People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.

We need to be doing text messaging on cell phones, we need to be doing online counseling in chat rooms, we need to be doing email -- wherever they will meet us and be willing to open up, that's where we have to be.

Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.