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7Aug/082

I talk too much.

Proving true the conventional wisdom that short posts are better than long ones, The Ed Techie's 445-word summery of my last post is generating a lot more conversation than my post did... Check out the comments for further discussion...

Not to mention that he made my points a lot more eloquently than I managed to.

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