It was a boring Friday afternoon. In one final attempt to abandon the worries of real life, I logged onto the Net. A quick mail check then a pleasant surf, I thought. Until I received the following message, from a fellow journalist in England.
Hi Karl! Just reviewed 'Corel Gallery - One Million Images' for . Why not check it out for WinPlanet? Bye, Terry
Oh boy, I thought. Not another Terry-message. My instant reply read:
Dear Terry, Thanks for your e-mail. Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but 'reviewing' a bunch of pictures - no matter how large - doesn't exactly appeal to me. I know you're only in this computing lark for the freebies, but a few of us journos like to maintain some kind of professional integrity. Yours ever-affectionately, Karl
But still, my curiosity was aroused. Within the hour, my tired fingers had tapped out a message to the Corel PR officer. And two weeks later, the same fingers wrote an apology to Terry - I was wrong. The Corel Gallery wasn't *just* a bunch of pictures...
