2010: off-topic blog biz

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Mr. Jefferson may have had to put up with slow mail, but he did have the advantage of just being able to write a straightforward letter to do business -- no passwords, no pin numbers, no captchas. He didn't have to jump through nearly as many petty hoops for each business transaction as we do. Almost makes it seem worth spending each day from dawn to midmorning breakfast writing with a pen dip't in ink.