Compose well-crafted emails and clever tweets, start a personal blog, or ask for more writing projects at work.

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Without a fix, it could get worse, with Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek writing in a note to investors this week that more PC makers could start to evaluate alternatives to Windows, such as Apple's OS X and Linux.

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If you are charged with writing the company newsletter and want to do something far more inspired than normal, start with the weird.

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