I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. This was the joke that gave comedian Nick Helm the award for best joke at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It may also be the best advice you hear all year. The last twelve months has seen an increase [...]
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After almost seven years of membership I have been forced to delete my Plaxo account due to security concerns. Yesterday I received notification that “Artur” had accepted my connection. This is a highly unusual name for Australia and if I’d ever met an Artur I would have remembered. Plaxo support guessed this was an outstanding invitation [...]
I’m churning internet providers from Comcen to Bigpond (we were going to stay with Comcen but they don’t have the ports for ADSL2+ on my sub-exchange). Anyway as part of the deal Bigpond have sent me a wireless router at no cost. I thought great, a single unit to replace my current dlink wireless router/adsl [...]
