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Well that got serious for a moment there yesterday, not the intention I had when I started typing and to be honest conflating a product launch with real world tragedy seems dubious at best and wrong-headed at worst. Still think there's something in there worth taking away as you venture elsewhere into the internets, somewhere in there there's a moral of the story I am neither well-equipped or eloquent enough to make.

Meanwhile in a return to my regular tone I have learned how to embed tweets into Blogger and so having gained these mad skills I can and I will share this with you, the sexiest bit of kit you are likely to see in the next few seconds. Enjoy!

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