• Brigette Horney was born. (Admission: I don't really know who is; I just figured this was a rare opportunity to write "Brigette Horney" in a tech news story.)

IBM, old pal, you've come a long way, and you're certainly showing . We at PCWorld salute you for your hundred years of healthy innovation -- and encourage you to bring back the cheese slicer ASAP, preferably packaged in with your next tech product.

JR Raphael is a PCWorld contributing editor and the co-founder of geek-humor site . You can find him on both and .