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by Derrick Story
Network Newsletter for 11/27/2002

Dear Reader,

During O'Reilly conferences people are always asking to buy our animal T-shirts. Unfortunately, we never had them to sell. But things have changed. Now we've teamed up with Think Geek and have an entire O'Reilly Store online.

For example, we have a blue Perl T-shirt with the caption, "One hump or two?", a Mac version with the O'Reilly German sheppard that says, "I dig Mac OS X," and an O'Reilly coffee mug featuring our mascot, the tarsier.

I realize that online swag might not be everyone's cup of tea, so if you're more in the mood to play with toys, then take a look at Terrie Miller's review of interesting holiday gadgets, "Gifts for Geeks on the Cheap"--every item is $50 or less.

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It must be that time of year ...

Cheers!

Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Managing Editor
derrick@oreilly.com

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