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I’ll name that book in four
Like a sort of computing 20/20 format, the lust for brevity has excited you. Our literary reviews are now for short stories of six words or less, it seems.
The old extended format yields a dark tale of dystopian helpdesk dictatorship from Malcolm Nettles, who submits: “The system is working as designed”.
Meanwhile, a penetrating insight into the madness of modern computing comes from Gary Reading at EDS: “To shut down Windows click Start”.
Ian Collier at John Allen Consulting prefers the four-word format for his self-help title, which will aid many of our readers in the search for a way to clear out the detritus from their working lives. Its title: “Press CTRL-ALT-DEL”.
If you’re just too busy for a four-word story, and what with YouTube and Facebook, many of you are these days, Dave Evans at ABBYY can help. “My personal favourite, covering the entire gamut of hardware, software and services – indeed life in general – has to be: ‘Not again’.”
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