Undo this

by | Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Wouldn’t it be great if life came with an undo key-stroke-combination? Just a thought I threw out today during a meeting which led to a discussion of how this could be a great movie idea. Seems intriguing…

Topics related to this post: Creativity | Fun | Personal

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