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History shows us that on many occasions marrying two music groups just on the merit of them both being cool does not always bare fruit. This definitely cannot be said in the case of the recent collaboration of Siddharta and Dan D, both Slovene rock/pop groups that are very good when performing their own songs [...]

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Winter in March 2007 The meteorological office has been warning about this but a lot of us just thought that they were making another erroneous forecast – it turned out to be absolutely true. We have snow in March 2007!!! Don’t get me wrong, we had snow in March last year, and lots of it, [...]

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I have just read on the Paranoia website, that their skydiving school in Ljubljana will soon be continuing classes, just as soon Aleš, the school’s instructor, will come back from a skydiving trip to the US. Aleš has been away for a few weeks now and am sure there were a lot of anticipating skydiving [...]

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I was going to write this post thinking that such a website does not exist and that my bad experience with this bank is unique. Oh no, I stand corrected, the site does exist, sort of, under the UK domain system (http://www.halifaxsucks.co.uk), but it does describe the banking problems of just one individual which is [...]

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This post is quite a bit nerdy so, readers, beware! [nerdiness=on] I posted this on the Google Apps group last week. I registered my domain martinmcdowell.com through Google Apps and wanted to use the same domain with Blogger, but using a sub-domain blog.martinmcdowell.com. I know Blogger allows the use of your own domain, but I [...]

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Now it seem to be all happening. I received the PD reserve 160 and the Cypres 2 Expert 1-pin AAD last week. I would expect the Cypres to come in a nice packet, which it did, but I didn’t have a clue how the parachute would be packed. Well, it literally came “as is”. I [...]

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