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Thursday, October 30, 2003 :::


Information Overload and a Chance to Win a New Segway!
Amazon.com has added to their Search function the ability to search for books by ANY WORD OR WORDS LISTED in every book they carry. How this is done is beyond my comprehension and frankly a little mindboggling, but if you test out this new search function you get entered in a drawing to win a new Segway Scooter. So I tried it out, and it worked. The good news for you is that it allowed me to find a funny excerpt from a book I recently read (called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis). Here it is:



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