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Famous for fifteen milliseconds

01apc.jpg (23537 bytes)Apparently I’m a Net identity. And the web site you’re reading is infamous! I know, because I just read it in black and white – well, okay, in black and beige – in the February issue of Australian Personal Computer.

They reckon I’m getting a prize for reporting a bug in their own magazine CD. Now, if only the prize was that they published one of my articles

Postscript March 1999: I got to choose a prize from their software cupboard, a collection of various geeky development tools. I chose what I thought I was least likely to leave lying around in the spare room unused: Visual J++ Pro.

By Daniel Bowen

Transport blogger / campaigner and spokesperson for the Public Transport Users Association / professional geek.
Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia.
Opinions on this blog are all mine.