The Three Peaks Challenge was in memory of their friend, Wayne Wilson, 26, from Cricklade, who died of leukaemia in January.

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Although somehow I have managed to avoid Miami, Puerto Rico, and pretty much any place in the Caribbean for so many years, I immediately got it, from sense memory: you are back in the tropics, my friend.

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Luckily for the companies cranking out flash memory--slim memory chips that mimic the capabilities of bulky mechanical hard drives--their old friend Steve Jobs is there to help.

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Last weekend I was in central Ohio for the annual charity race we hold to raise cancer-research money in memory of my late friend Jack Roth.

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Even better, the receiver's gigabyte of mass storage flash memory makes it simple to copy stored documents onto the PC or share them with a friend or colleague via good old sneakernet.

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