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How to Shop Online Without Fear
Or, how to get gelt, not guff
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Schwag and desperation
The aisles of Internet World last week weren’t haunted by the ghosts of the tech boom past. The…
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A sporting chance
Before we get started this week, a plea from your Betty Ford-ready correspondent: Two dozen home-baked cookies in…
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To Bill, with thanks
Call me woefully naive, but I just don’t see a downside to last week’s disbursement from the Gates…
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Up the river
Would you like to play a game? It’s an interesting game. I call it the grown-up game. Let’s…
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Too rich to be good?
In all the fuss over the Redmond Menace (please, Judge Jackson, don’t break ’em up; you don’t understand…
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A tale of two cities
Strange once again to see Microsoft handed its head by one of the few companies more hated than…
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Add it up
Not another blessed word about that endless presidential election. (Shouldn’t we have had lapel ribbons or something, like…
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One singular sensation
If you were to exile me to a desert island (no, this is not a Survivor-themed column) and…
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Net priorities
Our government is working hard to protect us from bad people like child molesters, and when they infringe…
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Latte laptoppers
Before we get started this week, I have an urgent piece of business. Everyone here who doesn’t work…
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Space-age whiz kids
Now that we’re all taking a little rest from throwing money at each other by the fistful, is…
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e-pinionated or Slash-dotty?
Hanging out online for days at a time does funny things to a girl’s social skills. After another…
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The name game
If I could turn back time on a few life decisions, I would do just three things differently:…
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The road goes ever on
Gamers still holding out for a massive multiplayer version of The Lord of the Rings had fresh hope…