Lest we forget

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam, killed herself last week. She was due to be sentenced soon for offences related to an elite prostitution ring she ran from 1993 to 2006. In her suicide note addressed to her mother, she wrote:
I cannot live the next 6-8 years behind bars for what both you and I have come [...]

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The past, as saved on Gmail

Rummaging through my old emails, I found this passage, from an email I wrote to someone three years and six months ago.
There are so many things that are close to you at some point of time. People who were important in your life or just friends ; and then there are surroundings and places. They become part [...]

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Kindle

There has been a fair amount of hype lately about the Kindle, the electronic reader from Amazon.com. Here’s Megan McArdle’s review of it. She calls it the best thing since sliced bread.

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