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exception.

With Lauren about to release, it was certain that the other major lines
would quickly follow with upgrades of their own. Everyone in the
dog-eat-dog world of the e-fashion industry was anxious that no rival gained
more than a microsecondтАЩs advantage.

For a moment I considered wearing the Armani, just for variety. IтАЩd
gotten that suit for a semi-formal dinner party two months ago. It was nice
looking, fit me well in fact, but, like most of that lineтАЩs strict protocols,
refused to link with those suits that had been crafted by an тАЬinferior
clothier.тАЭ The suit was gorgeous but was only useful in those circles where
its e-snobbery was acceptable, if not expected.

The ArmaniтАЩs haughty incompatibility hadnтАЩt saved me from the
clutches of a woman who had been wearing an Eddo gown. I later learned
too late, and much to my embarrassment, that sheтАЩd set her e-jewelry to
autoblog a continual stream of everything she was doing, both clothed and
otherwise. That was a little too much disclosure for my taste, especially
since it reflected poorly on my, how shall we say, performance.

So I put on the six-month-old Lauren, whose timeless cut was still
fashionable. ThatтАЩs the value of classic cut and fabric.

Even with its occasional problem, the buggy v6.3 suitware was
adequate for my workaday needs. The software kept a close watch on my
health, maintained my appointment calendar in real time, and knew when to
adapt to the sudden changes in temperature as I moved from frigid
conference rooms to overheated offices, cold washrooms, or even into the
intense heat of DallasтАЩs summer afternoons. I could put up with the
occasional communications bug for a few more days, I thought.

Lauren had announced that the new suitware would have not only all
the functionality of v6.3, but would maintain active links to the local
environment, perhaps alerting the owner when their favorite restaurant was
featuring something they liked or discovering where new shows were
opening nearby. It even had a flash advertising suppression feature, which
was skirting on the illegal, but, so long as the suppression remained on less
than ten minutes, it was permissible. That was a small price to pay to keep
the suit network viable.

The suitтАЩs bug sometimes made meetings awkward. The automatic
exchange that was part of the communications package sometimes locked
up. When that happened I had to go through an awkward suit-to-suit
request-permit-acknowledge routine that wasted precious seconds and
made me look like a novice e-suiter.

The new version supposedly prevented that sort of gaffe and, in
addition, promised to grab name, title, business names, web URLs,
addresses, cell and other phones, suit numbers, e-mail, personal web