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Pointless Anecdotes
Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
2012-04-01
A controlled crowd
The
new iPad
had just been released and as I passed the computer shop just by the Tube exit I saw that they had prepared for the onslaught: A bolshy guard stood and glared at the queue of prospective buyers. All five of them.
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