1.   And Wednesday the news got much worse as word spread of the sudden resignations of Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers and founder and chief technology officer Shawn Fanning.

2.   Another Microsoft Executive Quits Nathan Myhrvold, the chief technology officer of Microsoft, announced that he will leave the software company.

3.   As chief technology officer at Microsoft, Myhrvold presumably has more pressing research matters than dinosaur tails.

4.   As chief technology officer and vice president for marketing, he is in the office on many a Saturday and nearly every Sunday, busy calling days for customers.

5.   As chief technology officer of Digital Impact of San Mateo, Calif., he finds the Internet his natural domain.

6.   At Trellix, a software company in Waltham, Mass., where Bricklin is the chief technology officer, other employees have also embraced cable access.

7.   A man who goes by the name Mitra left the position of chief networking technology officer at ParaGraph International when that firm was bought by Silicon Graphics last year.

8.   A third friend, Chad Carter, who played the chief technology consultant, works as a programmer for Comvision.com, a Web design firm.

9.   ACT cofounder Ted Johnson is chief technology officer of Visio Corp., a Seattle firm that makes technical drawing software.

10.   After being turned down by first-choice candidates like Oracle President Ray Lane, Novell settled on Eric Schmidt, former chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems.