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I guess you might say the type font is on the wall; yes, friends, my computer is about to "byte" the dust and, OK, those computer puns are truly painful. But like a loyal dog that's lived beyond its prime, my laptop has grown sick and weary, and soon I'll need to put it out of its misery for good.

Both girls coaches like what they see in cross-town game

The recent news of Megan Meier, the adolescent in a small town in Missouri who killed herself last year after having been victimized by an online bully (an adult, someone she knew as a neighbor, a former friend's mother, posing as a boy who liked her, gained her trust and then turned on her), consumed my thoughts this past week. The appalling actions of this mother who perpetrated the hoax spurred efforts to criminalize online harassment and stalking in her hometown. These efforts gained traction after the FBI investigated and found that her posing as someone else and then bullying a vulnerable girl via communications on MySpace didn't constitute a crime.