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Egosurfing
Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one's own name.

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Ohnosecond
That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you've just made a terrible error.

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Generica
Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in "we were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was".

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Betamaxed
When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market"

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Chips and Salsa

Chips = hardware, salsa = software.

"First we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."

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Dead Tree Edition
The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.

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Dilberted

To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character.

"Damn, I've been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."

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Gray Matter
Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.

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Adminisphere
The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.

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Dorito Syndrome

The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content.

"I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."

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