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It's the source code and it is
Tuesday August 24th 2004 coming
to you from Curry Castle

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in Belgium which well this may
be the last week it's actually
called Curry Castle but

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I have more news about that
later and then apology right up
front yesterday I signed

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off on the show by saying we'll
see you tomorrow on Wednesday in
the middle of

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the week hump day yeah right I
guess I was extremely tired so
tomorrow of course

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will be Wednesday today was
another well very busy day
Patricia and I were

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interviewed by Rina Ulamans who
does a show here called Pulse
which is I'm

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trying to think when you compare
it to well and it's they do a
profile of us

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and they do a profile of the
guest every single week and so
they're starting up

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the first new

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show of the new series September
4th and we're going to be in it.
So he was there at the radio

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show in the morning. The camera
crew was there at quarter to six
as I arrived at the studio.

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And well, I can't wait to see
how I actually look at that time
in the morning.

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Let's see just a brief rundown
of stuff that's been going on.
Oh, I see that Joe Ito obviously

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caught the source code maybe a
day or a couple days after I
published it. I don't know if
you

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remember I mentioned that he had
a video of the rocket car of
death. The death-defying stunt
that

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I performed for ABC's Circus of
the Stars looks like he doesn't
have the video anymore and he's

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actually put the word out to see
if anyone still has it. I wish I
wish I could find a copy of
that.

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It's one of my favorite quick
times. I don't really have a
theme for today's show other
than

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or just a couple of loose
thoughts that I put together.
One thing that I've that I
noticed in the

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I'm gonna open up a soda here.

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Ahh... have a coconut smile.

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Thanks for watching. I'll see
you in the next video. Bye!

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One thing I noticed with the
development work that I've been
doing, and I've had glasses

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since I was 18 or 19.

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I probably should have had them
for a couple of years prior to
that, but just never really

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knew.

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Currently negative to 7, 2.75,
negative 2.0.

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And I did through the radio
station.

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There's a big chain store of
eyeglassware and contact lenses.

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And they needed someone to do a
promo for them that was going to
last a week.

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And I said, what the hell?

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Why don't you give me a year's
supply of contact lenses?

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Because I've been wearing
contact lenses for, oh man, the
past 15 years probably.

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And so they said, well, you know
what?

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We're so happy that you're going
to do that for us.

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We're going to give you the
contact lenses.

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We've got these new plasma-ized,
whatever, extended wear.

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We're going to give you a new
pair of regular glasses and a
pair of sunglasses as well,
which

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will be sunglasses cut to my
street.

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strength. And so, you know, we
really went through, I normally
have no patience for that.

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I had the ugliest pair of
glasses up until now in just a
reserve pair, you know, from

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bottom in 1972 that are about to
come back into fashion. So it
really took our time

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and picked up some nice frames
and really looked at the color
of the glass for the sunglasses

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and went through all the
motions. So I've been wearing my
new glasses. I haven't been

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wearing the contact lenses for a
couple weeks now. And what I've
really noticed, because

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I did put in some lenses the
other day, is it makes a
difference. Glasses just work
better.

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The technology of contact still
hasn't made it as far as I'm
concerned. Particularly

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driving, I notice a big
difference. And really, we've
gone through all the motions of
getting

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just the right type of lenses
for my eye and curvature and
whatever. There's just no
comparison.

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And particularly when it comes
to developing and doing stuff on
the computer, the clarity

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on the screen. It's also big big

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different. And I wonder if
anyone else had experienced that
the difference between looking

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at a screen and working and even
driving with contact lenses or
glasses. To me, big difference.

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On the development front, you
probably seen on my web blog,
I've posted a list of the
current

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iPod or scripts that are
starting to be a part of the
iPod platform, which we seem to
be somehow

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cobbling together. I've been
running David's Get Enclosures
Pearl script. I've installed it
as a

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Cron script. I had to tweak out
some stuff because it was
looking for the feeds file and
couldn't find

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it the way I'd set up the Cron
job. So fix that. And it's
happily running twice a day. I
set it up

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for 3 a.m. So that's just before
I get up. And so, you know, if
anything needs to be downloaded,

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be ready for me before I leave
it for 30. And then it runs at 6
o'clock because I always, you
know,

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check after dinner.

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And it's working great.

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And it's giving me some ideas
about how I can continue to
update the Apple version of

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the iPod or Apple script.

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And let's see, got a piece of
mail that I wanted to share with
you.

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Oh yeah, this is from Gordon,
from Gordon.

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And Gordon says he's been
listening to the source code.

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And he did send me an email
earlier about the size of the
audio files.

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Of course, now that I've got a
new recording system set up,

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which I think the quality is way
far superior to the Mac.

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And the mic isn't crapping out.

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And it's really a nice sound to
it.

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As he was complaining that he
has to download the source code
on a regular modem link,

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and it takes an hour and 45
minutes.

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And he says, well, he only
finished just before I left my
drive to work.

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And he really would like me to
down sample to my usual 64
kilobit sample rate instead of
160.

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But I did want to talk about
that for a second because I
think this is exactly the point.

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If we can set up these scripts
like iPod or to run at night.

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and just be reliable about it
and just make sure that it
happens.

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It shouldn't matter if it takes
an hour and 45 minutes

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or five hours and 45 minutes as
long as you sleep long enough

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and have it set up to run when
you're asleep.

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I think that's the beauty of it.

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And the way it shouldn't work,

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and which is exactly why I like
the Get Enclosures Pearl script,

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is that you hit a button and
wait for it to come in.

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This has to be running
automatically on your machine,

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you have to forget about it.

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That's why I like Pearl script
and shell scripts

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and Python scripts is because
you don't have to launch

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an application.

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It's not sitting there in your
face saying,

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hi, I'm running, I don't want to
forget about it.

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I want another application,
namely iTunes,

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to pop up and say, hey, I got
some new stuff.

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Good morning, I'm ready for your
drive.

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So a little bit of pushback on
that,

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their dog now on the other hand.

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Doug says that he's written,

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he removed three lines of code

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has rewritten Dave Sloshers
getting closure.

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and it works on Linux now.

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So I hope he publishes that,
looking forward to it.

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Of course, I'll link to that, so
we have yet another platform
coming on board.

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And what we need now, of course,
is we need Windows.

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And I have no idea how to do it.

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I'm lost.

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And of course, I can operate
Windows.

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I have a Windows machine here,
but I have no idea if there's an
equivalent to Apple script.

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I think there's something called
Windows Scripting Host or
something like that.

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Maybe we can use that, but then
we still have our devices
problem.

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Sure, there's lots of iPods out
there and lots of iTunes
floating around.

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But can we write for all
different MP3 playing devices?

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Or maybe we should write for
iTunes and have, and hopefully
iTunes will start syncing up
with all these devices.

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We really need to get to the
point where people like Gordon
don't have to think about how
long it's downloading.

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It takes 10 minutes or it takes
several hours.

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We'll get to that point.

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We're going to get to the point
where it's going to be video and
there's all other kinds

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of issues we have to look at.

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But same thing, it's just going
to take time to download.

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And that's this time shifting,
this magical bandwidth that we
create while we're sleeping.

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We use time that we wouldn't use
otherwise than sleeping.

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And so let's put that time to
some good use.

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So that's from the old email bag
that of what is not span that
comes in.

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I told you, I don't know if I
mentioned that we went to
Christina's school, her new
school,

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I think I did about the Antwerp
International School.

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And we were looking at the list
of stuff she has to have, what
pens and pencils and agenda.

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And of course you can buy that
in the campus bookstore.

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But they also require that each
kid has a 128 megabyte USB
plug-in drive.

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And one of those keychain things
you put in your pocket.

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and they actually sell them on
campus.

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And this is a part of how the
schooling system works here now

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with the international school.

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You take your work home on your
USB portable drive.

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I just blew me away.

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I thought that was extremely
cool.

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So to wind up today, I want to
play a song of the day

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and it's an appropriate one,

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because I think that we have
sold the house.

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We've gotten down to the final
50,000 on the price.

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So that's just a matter of whose
dick is bigger.

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Of course it would be mine.

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And with a little bit of luck,
I'll have news

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that we are going to start our
move and get everything in
motion

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very, very soon.

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And Patricia and I were just
talking about it.

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And of course we've walked
through.

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We have about 20 acres worth of
land here and gardens.

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And we are definitely going to
miss this place, that's for
sure.

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And we've moved several times
before and we like it and we
like moving to new challenges
and new things.

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but we never quite had a nature
resort like house like this one.
If I could pick it up

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and move it to the UK, I would
in a heartbeat. So this is a
song that I think anyone who's

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ever moved and we probably all
have it one point or another.
You probably feel a bit

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like this song describes.

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the internet grade that you can
download those songs and share
them with friends and then get
sued.

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It's about a quarter to ten here
in time for me to hit the hay
because I still got to get up

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the rest of the week at 3.30. So
that's it. I will be back here
tomorrow and let's see,

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I don't have a very busy
afternoon so hopefully be able
to update a little more stuff on
the

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web blog. The writing of course
you do have to take a little bit
more time for that for a web

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blog post I find and you get to
put some emotion in there as
well. So thanks for tuning in if
you're

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subscribing. Thank you very much
for subscribing. You can reach
me at adam at purry.com, see you

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r-r-y or live l-i-v-e dot purry
dot com and we'll be back
tomorrow with another source
code. See you then.

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Bye.

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♪♪♪

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Oh, yes, it's gone.

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Oh, no.

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