Friday, July 22, 2005

Information Age Surprises: If you consider yourself down with internet jargon, you may be surprised. Apparently, most Americans don't know key internet phrases. You may be even more surprised to learn (I was, anyway) that classical music downloads beat out rock. Downloads of Beethoven were far higher than others, including rock, when the BBC offered free downloads. And if you're considering an office romance, you may need to avoid surprises by signing a love contract. "Christine Barney doesn't know who brought up the idea first. All she remembers is that a few years ago she and a male colleague, Robert Gill, stopped in a deli for lunch on a car trip to visit a client, and one of them casually mentioned that it would be fun to do something outside of work -- as in "Maybe we could go to the movies sometime soon," she says. So Barney, who was the managing partner of a public relations firm in Miami, did what any recently divorced woman in a two-year dating drought would do. She ran straight to her business partner, Bruce Rubin, and told him that she and Gill, the company's senior writer, were thinking of dating. "I wanted to make sure it was above board," says Barney, now 41."

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