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A newsman’s life in the valley of silicon
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What I do
| Abide in San Jose, California.
| Accompany one wife, one cat.
| Work at the San Jose Mercury News.
| Blog for fun.
(Latest attempt: HikeHacker.com)| Hike for exercise.
| Read the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly.
| Watch movies from Netflix.
| Listen to tunes on XM Satellite Radio.
| Drive to the mountains and the sea in my Honda Element.
February 5th, 2004 at 8:38 am
Just a note for all you aspiring headine writers out there: it’s a sin to be flippant/sarcastic in a headline. Of course the author of this headline should’ve resisted temptation and played it straight here … but we live in an age where the point of temptation is to give in to it, so I found it entertaining.