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I'm relaxed and ready to kick some ass again after a week of R&R in the Lakes Region of Maine. My state of being isn't so much because of the respite from work as it is from being able to escape my computer and other nagging electronic devices like cell phones, pagers, etc.
Clearly, I benefit personally from the increasing use of hightech solutions and the gadgets and technology that drive them. Without advances, improvements or whatever else you want to call them, there would be no need for the high-tech industry to advertise, and that might be a problem for publishers, including my own parent company. But when you go cold turkey on technology and you step back and see what can happen without it, you realize that technology truly forces some serious trade-offs.
Despite the danger of turning this column into a "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essay, I have a sincere need to tell you just that. I rented a cottage on...