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<p>Hello folks, things are a bit hectic over here at Ye Olde Answer Gang. It's
been a complete madhouse - no wait, an incomplete madhouse -
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<p> Just check out the Lifehacks we have this month. Hopefully, they'll
keep your life less tangled than ours. For the moment, we're saving up our
Tips and our threads; the trials and the tribulations of The Answer Gang
will be <a href="../114/lg_answer.html">back next month</a>, after we get
the backhoes rolled away, and the forklifts are gone... Sorry for the dust,
folks. </p>
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There's a friend of mine who says "when tech does poorly, buy stocks
in raw materials for construction." After all, we know the backhoe is the
real enemy of the internet! I wonder if it's time to sell those puppies -
it looks like things in the tech world are pretty much looking up. Not
necessarily all at once - but certainly, there are signs of Spring. Renewal
is here, there are <tt>random()</tt> seeds everywhere. We're getting to the
<tt>/root</tt> of things (with a bit of hack and <tt>/</tt>-ing, true).
Duck season, wabbit season... allergy season.</p>
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