Anthony Bourdain: The plan was to write a short article for the New York Press.

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He was able to write his article on the machine, got it to surf the web (poorly) and he even managed to send out a tweet.

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"He's the man you might expect to write a funny article about the madness of call centres, " he says.

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Note: I would like to thank my nephew, Jeff Perkowski , who did the research and helped me to write this article.

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However, creative block is not limited to aspiring and professional writers who are trying to craft their next article on deadline or write The Great American Novel.

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Normally when I write an article for Forbes I try to avoid writing in the first person.

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But Mr Alpar says that an article on Galileo that the agency commissioned him to write was also spiked.

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However, I was not employed by Unilever at the time of reporting, nor did Unilever commission me to write this article.

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