A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and not where prosecutors claim he was. After a stormy divorce between Erin McRae and Everett Eugene Russell, a judge granted McRae a protective order requiring her ex-husband to stay away from her residence. Upon being accused of violating that protection order, Russell claimed he was surfing the Web that morning, checking on an IRS income tax return and shopping online at Home Depot’s and Lowe’s Web sites. He made a disk showing the Web sites that he had visited on Feb. 26, 2005, and the cookies on the disk indicated that he was on the IRS Web site at 10:29 am CST. The disk also indicated that Russell was online from 10:29 am to 11 am and again at 1:04 pm. But prosecutors argued that the cookie file could have been altered, and a jury agreed.