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Some of you may know that a publisher contacted me last year about turning a piece of short fiction I'd written from an adult perspective into a young adult novel. There are several reasons I wanted to do this - the first is that in many ways, the young adult fiction market is much more vital than…
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As a beta tester for this product I highly recommend it. We did the testing solely on Wikipedia, which is rather limited. Nevertheless, I found the product to be especially useful for mining buried facts in Wikipedia.
Oh btw - if you look up X.121 addresses, you should get a set of results that are useful, my one and only contribution. (I was investigating the history of data communications. The search engine didn't recognize the "dot" as "dot" and treated it as a the punctuation mark period.

By onkel bob (not verified) on 12 May 2008 #permalink