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My first iPod: five gigabytes of amazing

Jobs, like the legendary magazine editors, trusted his gut

By Tim on August 27, 2011

My first journalism  job was at a magazine called InfoAge, which was all about what we then called microcomputers. I went to a lot of press conferences where hopeful manufacturers launched new models; the release of the Apple II in 1977 had turned a hobbyist gadget into something surprisingly powerful and then IBM’s introduction of [...]

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“You’re lucky to be alive, asshole”

By Tim on August 26, 2011

I wrote my first piece for The Toronto Standard last week. “No City for Middle-Aged Men” tells some funny (I hope) anecdotes about my experiences as a middle-aged guy who goes to lots of club shows full of lots of young people, while also trying to make a point or two about something or other. [...]

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