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The contents of the office next door to us are being auctioned off as we speak. I hope that means we'll be able to expand into there soon: we've totally outgrown our existing office space.

The interns have spent the last two weeks working on performance enhancements to copilot.com. They put in support for automatically finding proxy servers and using them if necessary, and this week they've been working on raw speed. Tonight the whole company is going to sales training, in the form of the play Glengarry Glen Ross.

Thanks to David McNett for sending me the great I (heart) Unicode T-Shirt! He's selling them, both in Mac and Windows format, on cafepress.

My new book is here! Apress has just published a new collection of 36 essays from Joel on Software, aptly named More Joel on Software. Get yours today! Available from Amazon.com or wherever fine cheese is sold.

About the Author: I’m your host, Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City. Since 2000, I've been writing about software development, management, business, and the Internet on this site. For my day job, I run Fog Creek Software, makers of FogBugz—the smart bug tracking software with the stupid name, and Fog Creek Copilot—the easiest way to provide remote tech support over the Internet, with nothing to install or configure.

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