LinkedIn is a professional networking site whose membership includes a remarkable number of acquaintances of mine. Yesterday a woman I worked with in 1990 added me to her network, which is nice to know since she’s the editor in chief of a newspaper these days (always good to know people you can beg for a job in a crunch).

LinkedIn’s Network also includes a host of Two-Heel Drive irregulars:

Point being, the site’s spread is pretty doggone vast — no telling whom you might happen across from the old days. Whether they actually want to hear from you is, well, their business.