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Article: Austin, Texas, High-Tech Workers Offer Wish List of Holiday-Gift Ideas.
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- Austin American-Statesman (Austin, TX)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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Dec. 22--Three shopping days to go until Christmas, and you've still got gifts to buy for the techies on your list? No problem. Here are some gifts that Austin tech workers told us they'd like to find under the tree or in a stocking this year.
--Name: Charlie Thompson
Job: Chip design manager at Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Dream gift: Bushnell Speedster speed gun
Let the record show that Charlie Thompson likes gadgets. A lot.
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