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jeffrey heer >> blog >> search (and destroy) (heerforceone)Post on Kaltix recently acquired by Google. Company working on tailoring individual searches so that is why google bought Blogger. The search engine will know the sort of things that interest me through my blog. Will be very helpful when I go ga ga
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Geoff advice to anyone buying a new Microsoft WinXX machine is to MAKE SURETHE STORE supplies it with all latest updates installed!. After the fiasco with Mary’s machine where it picked up viruses in the short time of connecting to cable modem. Also the downloads are so large that you will find it very dispiriting…
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Lovely catch22 from NTL. When fitting cable modem disable all virus protection, you then get welchia virus twice during registration. You call NTL help to be told no help is given unless virus protection is installed!! That little saga equals 3 hours of my life!
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The full report here about the threat to security because Microsoft has such a dominant influence on home software. I think its probably correct especially the way its impossible to seperate the software into its components ie impossible to remove media player with all its hidden parts that can be activated remotely.
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A bank offering very high interest rates with security as long as your cash is tied up for 5 years and your capital helps dis-advantaged communities. Triodos Bank
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Here is the best justification I have ever read about blogging and its future importance, Wth the Salam Pax piece in The Guardian.
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A very sad day indeed poor old Concorde “ Concorde will be visiting Toronto (1 October), Boston (8), Washington (14) and points around the UK after that. The final scheduled flight lands at London Heathrow on 24 October, when it’s being said that three will land on the south runway one after the other. I’m…
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Apparently NTL have blocked out cable modem users from accessing Hotmail etc. This is certainly affecting Tony and others. A solution has been posted on the bigblueball forum here and there is a load of spiel from Robin Walker on setting up proxies at NTL here ——————————– Instructions for Tony 🙂 Goto Internet Options in…
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Succumbed to the google toolbar today creating a new blog at http://geoff-cool-links.blogspot.com/ so taht I can easily add links from sites that I like. Better than favourites as I can use them anywhere and add descriptions.
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Added the apartment in Les Gets to the website tonight, after much huffing and swearing because you can only post a limited amount of text into each text field on the Trellix template then struggled with ftp stuff finally using WS_FTP, excellent and free.