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Pandora outside USA – and yes, it actually works.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

After stuffing around with various proxies and Firefox extensions ad nauseum, I recently discovered a great solution for Windows by CfDan. It involves a mashup of Tor and Pandora’s Box – and it works.

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The most bizzare animal on earth – with pics!!!

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

A rather curious characteristic of the bipedal life form, is their unwavering belief that they are special, and in some cases; the belief they can experience life after death.

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How your forum gets spammed, and the culprits responsible

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

“Forum Poster allow you to post any message you want to over 40000 forum boards. Includes PHPBB, Invision, Vbulletin and more. Automatically registers a user with the username, e-mail and password. All made automatically. With just one click.” Clearly, this software enables anyone with half a clue to become an effective forum spammer.

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Schapelle Corby: read her book ‘My Story’ – wrongful imprisonment or badluck?

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

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With the question over her innocence or guilt remaining a controversial question, I have put to together an exhaustive list of resources in order to get a better understanding of the situation.

So what’s my verdict? I think the odds are that she is guilty. And before I run the risk of being labelled a redneck simpleton, let me explain…

The facts say she got caught red handed with drugs, which sucks for her, and her family. Some of Australia’s best sentiment and I dare say some pretty hot lawyers too have not been able to convince the Bali court otherwise. The facts simply don’t go in her favour. Note: I mean facts as in documented reports, I do understand that documents and reports are not always right.

So according to law, and according to the rules, Schapelle Corby is guilty as charged. That is the reality, and like it or not, that is what is happening right now.

Okay, i’ve talked abut the technicalities, but here’s how I feel about the matter;

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Aussies get ripped off on bandwidth costs – and now i’m really mad

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

“Hello, this is 1999 calling, we have a great hosting deal for you”

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Microsoft Vs Scarface – Say ‘ello to my little friend!

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Let me start by saying;

I hate Internet Explorer 7

Now before you think to yourself “lame, another anti-microsoft rant, i’m clicking my back button” allow me to qualify the previous statement because I really tried to get excited over this latest offering from Microsoft, I eagerly downloaded each beta and really wanted to believe that things would be different this time, the Microsoft Blog said “hey, we’re working for developers”, there were Tabs to look forward to, new RSS support, better security measures, a new interface, and the world was peachy.

But something happened along the way.

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