Microsoft has achieved something of benefit to almost every computer user regardless of what operating system you use, from Windows to OS X to Linux. The company has successfully convinced a US court to shut down a global network of computers responsible for pumping out more than one and a half billion spam messages every day.
As promised yesterday, here’s the second strange but true story from the archives first published in July 2006 and now redrafted with the original comments presented below it. I was inspired by correspondence over my encounter in the early 1990s with the phenomenon known as the ‘black stick man’ to write about a much earlier experience. If the story of the black stick man freaked you out and gave you bad dreams, as it well might for some, then don’t read this entry because it tells of an apparition that acted malevolently towards those who encountered it.
This is the story of when myself and others met the man in the stovepipe hat, another figure reported around the world. He’s dangerous and if you ever see him, run.
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