Laptop got scared

Posted on July 26th, 2002 by Sacha Chua
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Yes, it’s me.

Apparently my laptop got scared and is cooperating again. I’ve backed
up the rest of my data and should manage to survive nuclear fallout
and the like.

Still considering going for a real wearable…

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