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Editor wars for the new millenium
Hm - this started out as an email to pozorvlak, but it seems to have turned into more of a blog, so here it is ( Read more... ) -
Marketing
Just got a call from a random phone salesman...
tothermeAre you in some way exempt from the telephone preference service?
salesmanAre you on that list? No - it doesn't always come up on our screens - see we auto generate the numbers we call from the Orange prefix and a random number generator...
tothermeI reckon it might be worth fixing that...
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Mechanisation of human beings.
A scenario:
You're in Oxford, or Cambridge or some similar old school university town. You're walking to your college. Outside is a small, friendly, lost dog. It recognises you as a kindred spirit, comes over to say hello, and is reluctant to let you leave it alone.
Obviously, you walk the 10 metres or so to your college lodge, and tell the ( Read more... )