- Welcome to brown.freenode.net in Madison, WI, USA! Thanks to
- TDS Telecom (www.tds.net) for sponsoring this server!
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- BROWN, DAN [1964-]. Born in New Hampshire, USA, the son of a
- math teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy, he studied at
- Amherst College and later returned to teach English there.
- His works include Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons and
- the number one bestseller The Da Vinci Code. He is
- currently living in New England with his wife, Blythe, an art
- historian and painter who helped him write The Da Vinci
- Code.
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- PDPC's 2011 fundraiser launched on 14th February 2011. We would
- like to invite all users of freenode to get involved in the fun
- of our Valentine-themed fundraiser launch - see
- http://freenode.net/pdpc_valentine.shtml for more!
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- On the subject of fundraisers, we'd like to thank our donors,
- hardware and bandwith sponsors and especially  The Gallery
- Project (http://gallery.menalto.com/) and our corporate sponsor
- Canonical Ltd (http://www.canonical.com) for the generous
- support.
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- Don't forget to check out these other Peer-Directed Projects:
- FOSSCON [http://www.fosscon.org] and fossevents
- [http://www.fossevents.org], and soon we'll repeat last years
- success with Picnics for Geeks across the globe, more info at
- [http://geeknic.org]
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