So I probably spend way too much time on CNet.com than I should, being the fairly tech savvy bloke that I am. But, hey, it's good tech news, pretty well presented, and to my great distraction, provides ample opportunity to review, comment, talk-back and generally make a pest of oneself. Kinda hand-in-glove with that come the various, sundry and sometime downright annoying multiplicity of e-mail newsletters you can subscribe to, or BE subscribed to if you're not careful. Again, not exactly true tech-geek fare, and they all too often pimp stories that have been on the site for weeks, if not months, but as the high-tech news equivalent of fast food, still fun and enjoyable.

So, I check a newly arrived e-mail this afternoon, and what to my wondering eyes should appear in the text of the brand new "CNet Membership" newsletter, but my name! Okay, my handle, but still, there I was! I pulled the appropriate double-take, then clicked through the handy link to see what the what was. Sure enough, it was me and my commentary on an article that's almost a month old. Not that it's a bad article, but, y'know, what have you done for us lately, Mr. Van Buskirk? 'Course, I have an inadvertent hand in this gentle flim-flammery, but I suspect that's due to my being the first to comment on the article, thus being the first to catch Mr. Koo's attention.

Still, it is kinda fun to be mentioned in an article of any nature, even if it ain't my real name. At least when/if I get unplugged from the Matrix, I'll have a cool name to go by in Zion! And if nothing else, it's a near-perfect topic for my first truly "blogish" blog entry!