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JUST SO:WACKY PRESS

I've been written about in a whole bunch of places. But what follows are some of the more entertaining pieces of Wacky Press I've gotten and managed to find still on the Web.

An interview about email, in Croatian
Some time ago, I did a whole series of interviews with Voice of American and Radio Free Europe. They told me they translated them into forty different languages and broadcast them worldwide. I've even got a Russian one on tape and eventually, it, along with my other interviews, will go up here. But for now, wanna see an interview of me translated into Croatian? Check out the above link. To see the article translated back into English, click here. Interestingly, we recently ran an article about a developer in Croatia.

"Back in the days of wooden computers and iron programmers..."
I'm very honored to be listed with a group of some of the most talented (and, at least back then, most poorly socialized) humans on the planet, the WPI Hackers of the 70s. And yes, it makes me feel friggin' old. And yes, there were punch cards back then. Go ahead, rub it in.

Me and the SEC
Now, we get even more wacky. Quotes from The Flexible Enterprise are used as part of a slide presentation to shareholders from the Chairman and CEO of Deluxe Corporation, a $200M+ business, and owner of eFunds. And not only does he use my quote, he uses it as the foundation of his pitch for his business. This quote was included in a filing to the SEC. The link takes you to a text file of the entire filing, so you'll need to search for my name using your browser's find command to find me.

I finally made it to NASA
To be honest, this one may thrill me most. The Flexible Enterprise is on the reading resource list of the NASA HQ Library. I always wanted to go to NASA and it looks like my book, at least, made it!

I'm in the dictionary -- sorta
Who woulda thunk it? A random article of mine made it into Dictionary.com's Word-of-the-Day back in 2001. Not exactly the article I'd want recorded in posterity, but if they think the article's germane, who'm I to argue?


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