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[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 17:28 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 08:46 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> > I have been a StumbleUpon user. Currently it is not working on my
> > system. But the topics I am interested in are rather obscure. Things
> > like research related to the World Bank's International Roughness Index
> > (one of many dozen of this sort of thing). I would like to somehow
> > follow new equipment available to measure this (read 'competitors'), or
> > requests for offers that require this as a provided item (read
> > 'opportunities'). This sort of thing. I can and do google. But that
> > takes time. Especially separating new from old. As an aside, I must
> > check if google has an option to sort hits by date.
> 
> Oh THAT! Shucks, I'm supposed to travel to DC to see an old friend who
> happens to be the personel manager there. I'll ask her. Sometimes you
> just need friends in low places. <smiles toothy grin>  Ric

Be careful in DC. I hear that lots of odd people are starting to move
in :)


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Roger