Way back in the 1990s, when Wambooli and the web were still young, I concocted a series of bogus advertisements. For a while they appeared on the Wambooli site, and they looked typical of the web advertising back in the day.
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Last week, Gray Powell went to a bar to celebrate his birthday. When he left the bar, he left his phone. Normally that would just be a sad story, typical of the digital age. The phone Gray left, however, was not just any phone.
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One sure-fire way to get foreign characters, as well as special symbols, into your text on a Windows computer is to use something I call the Alt+Keyboard trick.
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Seriously: Has Microsoft ever pioneered anything?
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I finally got to play with an iPad, and it makes me so glad that I didn’t buy one!
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A long time ago I spent a lot of money on Federal Express, UPS, and the Post Office. I shipped a lot of stuff: contracts, CDs, books. Today, not so much.
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There is something about that anonymous jerk on the Internet (you know the guy I’m talking about) that compels some people to reply.
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Yes, it’s named after one of the worst films of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space. But Plan 9 From Bell Labs isn’t a film, nor is it fiction, nor is it awful. Nope, it’s an operating system that shuns all current operating system paradigms.
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