Geez, what a couple of weeks they have been. Non-stop desktop instability issues whilst migrating numerous hosting accounts and juggling an assortment of deadlines. A great combination.
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I have always subscribed to the notion that domain squatters are not doing the industry a favour. And while this belief still holds, I’m starting to look at the issue from a different angle: many decent domain names remain available to lucky upstarts (it is becoming much harder to come up with decent domain names).
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Apple’s iPhone went on sale today. It has received an enormous amount of pre-sales publicity. I am not about to contribute much to the buzz around the Apple tree; no doubt it’s a fine design and a decent product. But it’s just another device, or is it?
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Our former ISP had stuffed up. I won’t go into details, but the result was that the ADSL connection on our premises was down for nearly two weeks.
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Recently I purchased two new computers. It struck me that the prices had come down considerably since buying the last one. At the same time the specs had gone up to very impressive levels.

Not long ago, we were pushing our computers to the max running photoshop: it just couldn’t handle the complex mix of styled vector data and bitmap imagery. Much to my delight these latest computers are just ripping through the stuff, while at the same time running Dreamweaver, Illustrator, VOIP software and various other applications.
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