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As usuall excellent read. Keep it up! Thanx Bob. ...
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Nice article Bob About deleting cookies, I had experience in booking flights. Sometimes trying the same flight date and route for 3 - 4 days, increase...
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The one piece of advice I have (and have learned from Christopher Elliott and Michelle Couch-Friedman) is to always buy your tickets from the airline....
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I love Engrish.com, which shows signs and products that are translated to English...very poorly. ...
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I always liked the oxymorons. They are a little bit hard to come up with but a couple examples would be: military intelligence or original copoy....
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I signed up with Ting several years back after reading about them in your newsletter. I do not use my phone for much other than to phone from the groc...
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In my October 2018 article “The Web’s Creator Is Doing Us A Solid” I wrote that Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, was “devastated” and “sickened” by what has become of it. He had hatched a plan to re-invent and decentralize the Web, complete with privacy controls and individual ownership of personal data. So what’s happened since then? Read on…
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