The British government continues to be embarassed by the loss of private electronic data. The latest incident involves the medical records of more than 38,000 National Health Service patients sent to a software company for back up in the event the information got lost. According to the Telegraph, the lost CD had data dating back a decade, believed to have been mislaid while enroute from London to the Sandown Health Center on the Isle of Wight.

Godzilla, the overgrown Japanese lizard, wreaked a lot of havoc in those 1950s sci-fi movies. But even he couldn't match the destructive capability of a much smaller cousin in this southern Florida coastal community. Some 20,000 homes lost power midday Thursday when an iguana shorted out high-voltage equipment operated by Florida Power and Light. Electricity was out for about half an hour. The iguana will be out for a much longer time.

It all began 30 years ago today. The mother lode of all spam - the bane of everyone's online existence - was first sent out via the U. S. Defense Department's Arpanet by a salesman named Gary Thuerk. The first junk mail or "Spam" as we know it today, was an invitation for a demo of the new system-20 mini computers being marketed by the Digital Equipment Corp.

A retired shipping consultant has offered a $20,000 reward for the return of the 17th-century Goffriller violin he left at the train station on January 29. Rob Napier said he didn't realize that he left the prized instrument - an original handiwork of Venetian master Matteo Goffriller dated 1698 - on the train's luggage rack until the train had actually rolled off the station.

Local authorities arrested a man for intentionally crashing his vehicle into the car wash after becoming dissatisfied with the service. The man, 37-year old Assi Touti, was at the Mr. Hand Car Wash complaining about the unsatisfactory job done on his Chevrolet Silverado truck after he drove it through the car wash.