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I see this: I change to this: I click on Postpone.... 10 minutes later I see this again: I mean, for chrissakes, the minimum reminder is 10 minutes, so why am I being nagged within less than 5 minutes????
Check out this URL: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=65660 See this quote towards the very end: "In Australia earlier this month, a majority of Sensis websites including Whitepages, Telstra Bigpond and Yellowpages had to remove...
I kid you not - this is an email that I received - I presume "the site" that the correspondent complains of is www.ie-vista.com , because that is the site that was used to send the following diatribe: "The site stinks. It doesn't display...
I took delivery of a new dx7300 last week and turned it on for the first time yesterday to add it to the network. First off, the PC was running Internet Explorer 6 - excuse me but IE7 has been out since last October!! Secondly, the Google Toolbar was...
A while ago my boss (a Mac aficionado) pointed out the Mac v PC bloat video as just one more piece of evidence proving that Macs are better than PCs because, and I quote what he said, "Macs don't come with any of that crap". Video in question...
Yep, that's right folks. As we know, Google have purchased Feedburner, and they have also decided that if you don't want Google to have your data, then you can't have it either. I saw this notice today when signing in to Feedburner on a different...
Check this out - yep, the "Skype Extras Manager" (skypePM.exe) is taking up an amazing 50% of CPU cycles, and 741,164K memory * even when Skype itself is shut down * , and slowing my very beefy Ferrari 5000 with an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.00...
Frustration levels are high. *Very* high. And Telstra is the focus of said frustration. We got home from work yesterday to discover that there had been a power failure, and that not only was our internet access (which is cable) not working, but Foxtel...
Edited to change subject line that was offensive to some I honestIy can't believe this. Julie Amero's sentencing has been delayed, AGAIN, this time until June 6. This is the fourth postponement of Julie's sentencing. Can you imagine the emotional...
I've worked in the legal field for close on 20 years, and keep an eye on various law-related blogs because of this. An article published on Overlawyered piqued my interest today - it talks about a lawsuit between Suzanne Shell and Internet Archive...
Now I really *have* seen everything. Yesterday was 'hair and nails' day, so off I went to my local shopping centre for some well earned pampering. Imagine my amazement when I noted a new piece of equipment in the ladies' loo - the hand dryer had been...
"A British reality television program to be filmed in Australia this winter will force fat children to hunt for food with Aborigines. In 'Fat Kids Can't Hunt' 10 fat youngsters will live with Aboriginal tribesmen in Australia for a month. If the children...
Today is PROSH Day ( information here ). PROSH is an annual charity supported by the UWA Student Guild and The University of Western Australia. Unfortunately what started out as a fantastic charity event years ago seems to be corrupting more and more...
So I spotted something in a Technorati search the other day... a site hosting www.ie-vista.com via a frame in a remote site, with a banner advert plastered across the top of the screen, the only goal being to earn easy cash from *my* hard work. I hate...
Source: http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=ada62a41-2482-4bf2-bb34-cc00c5ead4a9&k=43298 "The public is being warned about the dangers of purchasing medicine on the Internet following the death of Quadra Island resident Marcia...
Ok, so my youngest offspring, my daughter, is unwell and showing all the signs of having developed an ear and sinus infection. We headed down to the medical surgery that our family has been using for more than 20 years to see about treatment. Ours is...
The subjectline of the spam was "The anti phishing thing in IE makes getting to a web page feel like Im on dialup - when Im on cable." Gosh darn it, I'm an IE MVP, of course I'm going to open something that looks like a plea for help from an IE user....
Part of this article may fall to the bottom of screen on smaller displays - scroll down if this happens to you. Edit: I should point out that MSN Messenger's proper name is now Windows Live Messenger. Pushers of the malware known as winfixer managed to...
As my regular reader(s) know, I went to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show and a Windows Vista Lab courtesy of Microsoft (Microsoft paid for flights, I paid for accommodation). Although the frequency of my travel has reduced over the past 6 months...
It would be real nice if Andy Beal and his comrades in arms in various online news sites would concentrate more on accuracy, and less on sensationalism. If there is one thing that is sure to raise my hackles, it is misinformation, and grudging "updates...
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