Stickin' It to demand: Delivering CRM on demand may be a bit too demanding for Oracle's Siebel.com. Cringester Rowdy R. says his firm suffers Siebel outages on a weekly basis, including six during the final week of February. Probably just Oracle having a little indigestion as it tries to swallow Hyperion.

But you can't beat the customer service: A scammer recently bought US$22,000 worth of gear from Apple stores in Minneapolis using a counterfeit credit card. The thief was unable to faithfully duplicate the card's magnetic strip, so ever-helpful Apple Store employees keyed in the numbers for him. I understand that the store offered the scammer Vista machines in place of the stolen Macs, but he said he would rather just do time.

A lot deeper than six feet: Just how low can a PR outfit go? An enterprising flack from keepyousafe.com is using Anna Nicole Smith's tragic death to hawk his client's online safety deposit box service. The pitch: Had Smith squirreled away her last will and testament with the service, we'd have all been spared the media circus surrounding poor Anna's death. Including, presumably, press releases that exceed even my tolerance for bad taste (which may be a first).

Left behind: The Wikipedia has a liberal bias, or so says The Conservapedia, a site created to literally right the wiki's leftist wrongs. Other items exhibiting a liberal bias, according to Conservapedia, include kangaroos, Joe Stalin, and gravity.