WTC implications low for TWs

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I document billing software, and no matter what goes
on, short of extinction of the entire human species,
companies will continue to bill their customers. 

There are very few real consequences I can think of
for the tech writing industry from the disaster. Some
observations:

Online usage spiked, and probably there was, or will
shortly be, a surge in new signups for online
services. 

The net was slow yesterday morning, but never down. 

If the disaster panics the financial world and
triggers a recession, we can expect more and worse
difficulty in finding work. 

Lots of people of Middle Eastern extraction work in
high-tech. They may have trouble from prejudiced,
vengeful idiots. Those of us from other backgrounds
may need to stand up for our perfectly innocent
co-workers who may happen to share an ethnic
background with suspected terrorists. As a Southerner
and a Texan I know what it is like to have people
think my entire region is represented by some backward
killer.

C. Crowley

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