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...so somehow I ended up tagging along with Adrian to his friend's place for a very nice dinner. Our taxi driver seemed to be one of the more extreme cases I've had - he spent the whole trip ranting about American-made computer parts that know when we're doing something that could be construed as being anti-american, and automatically shut themselves down, and I forget what else. We were desperately trying not to laugh - he was a pretty scary guy. I didn't dare ask him about his Y2K contingency plans...