Maybe it's the expansion of technology, and the fact that the news chases me wherever I go: on my radio, on my television, alerts on my laptop, alerts on my mobile phone.
"As images of human desolation were beamed into our homes this week," wrote Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror tabloid, referring to the Japanese tsunami, "rich and famous people were hunched over laptops alerting us to the grotesque injuries caused to their reputations".
"We took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding," the Burlington Electric Department said in a statement.
Healthy-looking men and women wearing lavalieres and carrying laptops, stood alert and poised under the massive Masonic eye.
It is also attached to a laptop computer that alerts the user to "a hit" with an audio and visual signal.
So, when I heard my laptop read an email alert suggesting I may want to join a meetup called Gays Who Tech, I could not help but smile.
And as long as I kept Calendar in an open tab on my laptop's browser, the alerts reached me there too.
We then get to watch him remotely monitoring their calls and texts, tracking the cars he buys them, and scrutinising all internet traffic lest his sons look at online pornography (spoiler alert: Chase's laptop ends up in the bottom of the Chrisley pool).
The servicemen are accused of filming the children and showing the images on laptop computers to other soldiers who alerted the military authorities, the newspaper reported.
By October 3rd, senior officials at the F.B.I. — including Comey — had been alerted that the Weiner laptop contained an unknown number of Clinton e-mails.
I was not there, but I know this is true because a "poop alert" popped up on my laptop, 22 miles away at a friend's house.
