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There’s an old writer’s joke about the importance of punctuation that goes like this: A panda walks into a bar. He sits down at a table, orders his food and eats it. Then he pulls out a gun, fires a shot into the ceiling and walks to the door. The bartender yells: “Hey! What do you think you’re doing?!” The panda throws him a well-thumbed dictionary and says, “I’m a panda. Look it up.” The dictionary definition reads: “Panda (n) — a fur-bearing mammal. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
(It’s also the title of a brilliant and funny book by Lynne Truss that any word geek or member of the Facebook group Good Grammar is Hot will appreciate during this gift-giving season.)
Computerworld Canada editor Shane Schick reminded me of this as we were discussing phishing attacks we’d received lately. (He also beat me to coining the title of this post, damn his eyes.)
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McAfee Inc.’s chief security officer, Martin Carmichael, dropped in for a quick Toronto visit Tuesday night to kibbitz and discuss security with a dozen or so tech journalists. Funny, energetic and obviously straining at his media-trained leash, Carmichael (looking eerily like News Radio’s Stephen Root) covered a lot of ground from the unique perspective of being the chief security officer of a security software company.
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