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At the end of my first day, I back out of my parking space and accidentally hit a Lexus parked behind me. Oh great, my first day at work, and I dent somebody’s fancy car. I leave a note of apology on the windshield, with my name, email address, phone number, and a promise to pay for whatever repairs are necessary.

The next day, I come to work, and I have a new email message.

From Bill Gates.

Oh my God, I dented Bill Gates’ car.

Fortunately, he said not to worry about it.

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Apple anounced a new line of iPods today and a update to the iPhone which adds the iTunes music store to this wonder gadget.

Apple did it to us once when they first announced the iPhone, they left out the youTube button only to announce it at a later time. Now they have announced that they will be adding the iTunes store to the iPhone, but there are still three spots left on the homepage. Will we be seeing a games button there soon? What else could they be plotting to add. It does look out of place, that new little button there on the bottom of the screen, a little lonely.

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Clip Source: paulgraham.comA good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he’s working on. Mathematicians don’t answer questions by working them out on paper the way schoolchildren are taught to. They do more in their heads: they try to understand a problem space well enough that they can walk around it the way you can walk around the memory of the house you grew up in. At its best programming is the same. You hold the whole program in your head, and you can manipulate it at will.

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Clip Source: www.relix.com The estate of reggae legend Bob Marley has revealed that it will bring suit against Verizon Wireless, after the cellular company announced that it would sell ring tones drawn from the Marley’s musical catalog. Verzion asserts that it is acting in a legal and appropriate manner as part of its contract with the Universal Music Group. By contrast, the Marley estate takes issue with the way that the image and music of Marley will be used, which the estate feels amounts to an endorsement (which it has not granted).
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BERLIN (AP) — U.S. computer company Apple Inc. and German automaker Volkswagen AG are discussing the possibility of building an “iCar” that would feature products by the producer of the ubiquitous iPod personal music player.

Apple (Charts, Fortune 500) Chief Executive Steve Jobs and Volkswagen’s chief Martin Winterkorn met several days ago in California and plan to meet for further discussions, said Hans-Gerd Bode, a spokesman for VW.

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.ukDemocratic presidential hopeful John Edwards today said he would ask Americans to give up their SUVs, as he set out his plans to curb carbon emissions.

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Clip Source: www.relix.com It now turns out that the editing of Eddie Vedder’s speech critical of President Bush during the Lollapalooza webcast has indeed happened on prior occasions

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