Frabjous Times

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Joshua Courtland made half his fortune off his Say What line of portable machine captioning systems the month all the iPods blew out. Who could have forseen a volume control bug that suddenly rendered millions profoundly, irreversably deaf?
As for the rest, the Apple stock he'd sold short paid off handsomely. Resourceful fellow, that Courtland.
Originally published: 2006/03/16 14:17:54