"Can you come in? We sent our, uh, technology editor to a conference, and then she, uh, didn't come back. People she had not informed about her plans included her husband, who had called. As the story was always told in our circle, this girl, 28 years old and an apparent happy homemaker, ran off with a 56-year-pear shaped accountant with 27-, 23, and 3-year old children. And this a job became available which I began on July 29, 1991, and which has turned into a career. I guess it worked out. Oh yeah, she left in such a hurry that she left a pair of shoes under my desk. Now for another 25 years; well maybe a little less.