Logged on to Windows Live Messenger 8 beta, and, one of my contacts, Terri Stratton, editor-in-chief of The Tablet PC and a moderator of The Hive popped up.

I asked her about an interview she had with Jim Alchin posted to The Hive and she replied that she was on vacation in Alaska!

Alaska, and had just come in from fishing!

This IM thing makes you tethered to the world, eh?