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in this fashion, and my career is turning over like a goddamned locomotive engine. I am thrilled beyond words (an extraordinary circumstance for a writer!) at the way that this has all worked out.

And so *now* I'm going to take a little bit of a plunge. Today, in coincidence with my talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:

Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4693

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