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Unfortunately my GMail account martin [dot] mcdowell got somehow hacked today and someone (or something) in China sent a spam message to all my 119 e-mail contacts in my address book at 15.35 this afternoon. The IP address the hack originated from was 115.52.213.93 and is assigned to the Chinese ISP CNC Group CHINA169. It looks like [...]

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After many problems that I had with the previous hosting provider Bluehost I have finally decided to uproot this blog and move to another provider. Instead of using a provider in the U.S. I have opted for somebody local, not just locally in Europe, but actually in the UK. The infrastructure they seem to be [...]

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When I looked up my GMail account this morn morning I saw that they activated the GMail phone feature for me and so far it is looking much better than Skype. These are the per minute call rates to a landline to Slovenia. Skype (PAYG): 0.041 GBP/min Google Voice: 0.026 GBP/min Prices above include VAT [...]

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Google StreetView’s coverage has been extended to about 90% of the country and that now includes Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire. The images are pretty high quality. I have heard there is a bit of an anomaly with the High Street in Pembroke Dock as part of it was filmed in once season and the other part [...]

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Logic dictates that an e-book should be cheaper than its paper counterpart, yes? One of the main reasons why people should buy e-book readers is the fact that you don’t have to pay for the overpriced printing and hopefully can save a few trees at the same time. OK, lets ignore the fact that a [...]

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The surprising thing for me here is that Vista came in third. In other boot speed tests I have read about it usually cam in dead last, with Windows 7 being faster, but not faster than any of the two Ubuntus. Speed test courtesy of Tuxradar.

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