>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/14/bird.flu.ap/index.html
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>>>Hmm, how does it affect VFP? <g>
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>>Read Jack London's "The Scarlet Plague". If one day it begin infect human by human there'll be no VFP programmer on this planet...
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>Are you sure it's Jack London's? I don't remember this one, though when I was young I read almost everything by him...
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>I recall a similar book by Edgar Allan Po...


Jay's right, it was by Jack London.

Jack London's books must have seemed pretty exotic from where you read them. Heck, they seemed pretty exotic to me, too. I guess it's in human nature to be intrigued by realities different from our own.

If you ever make it out to Oakland, there is a Jack London Square you might visit. Well, maybe not. It was originally just a tribute to a native son. Now it is so touristy the man himself would probably upchuck. Or feed the developers to the wolves, one or the other ;-)