Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Texting, which 55 percent of young cell phone owners now prefer to voice conversations, according to a new survey. People 24 and under now send an average of 110 texts per day.

The Tea Party, a Canadian rock band, after it put its domain name, teaparty.com, up for sale. The band hates Tea Party politics, but analysts say the website address could sell for over $1 million. “We’ve got families,” a band member said.

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Keeping kosher online, after an Israeli computer programmer created Faceglat, a cleaner version of Facebook for “God-fearing” Jews. (Glatt is a strict type of kosher.) The new site separates profiles of men and women, and blocks indecent advertisements and bawdy entries that would lead to “spiritual deterioration.’’

Bad week for:

Firsthand experience, after Ronald Wade, 31, applied for a job as a jailer in Warren County, Miss. During his background check, police found that Wade was wanted for DUI manslaughter in Florida, so he was arrested and jailed.

Having it your way, after an irate customer allegedly returned to a Missouri Taco Bell with a shotgun, after discovering that a worker had failed to include hot sauce packets with his meal.

Spending that raise, after the superintendent of Staunton, Va.’s schools apologized to 31 teachers for accidentally raising their salaries. He blamed the mistake on a combination of human and computer error, and told the teachers they’d have 24 months to repay the extra money.