Before you send that e-mail, check who might be cc'd!

Have you ever fired off an e-mail and the moment you clicked 'Send' you panicked and immediately checked to make sure you did not hit 'Reply All'?

Whether that panic was because the e-mail contained private business matters or because you were sending something personal - and potentially embarrassing - on company time and visions of not only scandal and derision, but also of job less, danced in you head, in this day and age of technology, probably everyone has felt that fear at least once.

According to Bloomberg Business, at a PricewaterhouseCoopers branch, new female employees were rated by their looks in an ongoing e-mail exchange. One of the knuckle draggers, though, accidentally sent the ratings system to the wrong person.

Two secretaries at a law firm found themselves in a heated e-mail exchange - about the location of a ham sandwich believe it or not - that escalated into name calling, comments about  the intellectual proclivities of the one who was a blonde, disagreeable remarks about one of the ladies' body type and even a snide remark about how man guys one of the women had in her life at the moment. The problem? This nasty back-and-forth e-mail argument was accidentally cc'd to their coworkers.

Also, a Pentagon military employee e-mailed 64 pages of sensitive information to a list of people who were cleared to receive the info - and also sent it to a 15-year-old girl. The girl replied with a 'Please stop these e-mails message.' The employee blamed the Internet server.

Do you have any good stories that you have, uh hum, hear about? Let me know.

Please come back Poe Toaster, and save us from the Kardashians of the world

In 150 years, will people gather at the grave of Kim Kardashian or one of the Housewives of (insert city here)? I doubt these names will even be remembered, and their contributions - such as they are - will not be considered in anyway artistic.

That thought came to mind once I realized that one of the great traditions in our country's past 60 years or so has seemly come to an end in Baltimore. The Poe Toaster is nevermore.

Since the 1940s (or even earlier) a mysterious person, dressed in black clothes with a white scarf and a wide-brimmed hat, had visited Edgar Allan Poe's grave after midnight on the anniversary of the writer's birthday and left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac. The person's identity remained a mystery despite the fact that, starting in the 1970s, a few people would gather in a church to keep a vigil for the toaster. Not knowing who was toasting Poe made yearly appearance that much more delicious. A note left in 1993 said 'The torch will be passed,' so the toaster was probably someone different - a son perhaps - the last last 17 years.

Poe was a great writer who had a dark, macabre side and died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40. The yearly toast was a wonderful tradition that remained bathed in the early morning darkness, which was a refreshing contrast to our reality show, 15 minutes of fame culture. True art inspires quiet respect, not TMZ.

Please come back Poe Toaster. If not possible, I entreat the third generation to pick up the torch.

A tale of Yuengling, theology and John Wayne

I came to love a cold Yuengling when I went to grad school in Gettysburg, Pa. My good friend Dimitri and I discovered this little bar called The Blue Parrot Bistro (what a great name.) Dimitri's a Lutheran minister who was born and raised and still lives in Moscow, but he was studying in the U.S. for a year, and he was not much of a beer drinker, so two Yuenglings would have him tipsy. We had many a great theological discussion sitting at the bar.

His was dissapointed, though, that the American bars he visited did not resemble John Wayne movies, i.e. drunken cowboys knocking the snot out of each other.

Anyway, hat's off to Pottsville, Pa-based Yuengling for becoming the largest American beer-maker by surpassing Boston Beer in 2011 sales.

Slow cooker heaven

We've always loved the crock pot - Ol' Crocky, as we affectionately calls it - and we gotten to the point where my kids ask after school, 'What's in the crock pot tonight?' As my good friend Sam Aselstine just posted on Facebook, 'There's nothing better than going home after a hard day's work and walking into a house that's fully crocked. lol. good smells.'

 My wife Terri has started a blog with tips and recipes etc. Check it out and leave some of you own tips and recipes and we'll all share:  http://terrisslowcookerheaven.blogspot.com/

Peanut Butter Cheerios = good eats or bad news?

Just when you might start to think that big corporations are evil, along comes General Mills to do something wonderful like introduce Peanut Butter Cheerios! I know, right, awesome. In full disclosure, I am a peanut butter fanatic despite the fact I have allergies to the dang stuff.

So, speaking of allergies, we all know that some people have violent, even deadly reactions to peanut allergies. Not everyone, sure, but some. Just last week, a first grade girl in Virginia died from sharing a friend's snack. Tragic. But a national support group called Allergy Moms is very critical of the new cereal. Hey, I understand being concerned for your kids, but we can't all of a sudden ban peanuts in any form just because a few - and statistically, it is a few - are made very sick by them. Sure, if you're the parent of such a child, life is more difficult in the area of nutrition. You have to be very careful and teach your child to be very careful. Welcome to life, it's difficult at times.

Mall snares new store, which is now hiring

Clothing store company maurices (yes, it uses the lower-case 'm') is starting it's 81st year by opening a store in Las Cruces.

Susan Palmer with the Mesilla Valley Mall just told me that Maurices will start construction next month on a location at the mall but the company is currently hiring. If you're interested in a job, you can visit the website maurices.com to apply.

The company reports it started in 1931 by E. Maurice Labovitz as a small women's fashion shop in Duluth, Minn., and has grown to more than 750 stores in 44 states. It calls itself is "the leading small town specialty store and authority for the savvy, fashion conscious customer with a twenty-something attitude."

I'm all a twitter with Twitter

Hi all,

I've taken the plunge and am now on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter @Bstockberger where I'll be sending out messages on business (I am, after all, the business editor) but also sports, religion, books and movies - and maybe a few other areas as well. I'll be expanding on some of my Twitter posts here on my blog as well.

And I guarantee you will not be bored!