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April 24, 2006

Manitoba Blogs

Published in: Housekeeping, On the Net @ 8:31 pm

New! I was browsing and searching the other day and discovered a nice little list of Manitoba bloggers:
http://manitobablogs.blogspot.com/. It’s not a huge list, but I assume not all the MB bloggers know about it. I had no idea about its existence until a few …

Chechens

Published in: Weekly Buzz @ 8:03 pm

Russia/Chechnya
The tiny red portion is Chechnya in the Russian Empire

Years ago I have spent quite a long time in Chechnya. I used to work there as the head of a humanitarian aid agency’s mission. It was war, it was amidst unbelievable circumstances for …

April 22, 2006

Blog banned during elections in Singapore

Published in: Asides @ 8:43 pm

The current government, the People’s Action Party (PAP) has explicitly banned all websites, blogs, and podcasts from political discussion until the conclusion of the elections.[..]

Feel like complaining about your rights? Try blogging in Singapore…

April 11, 2006

How NOT to do business…

Published in: Weekly Buzz @ 7:14 pm

If you spend a lot of time on the net — sooner or later you will end up having your own domain and your own website. (Domains are the “addresses” you type in the address bar of your borwser: whatever dot com, dot org and so on. I also happen …

Found on the net

    12/05/2007: - comments: 0

    Source: Carol Bentley’s blog. Read about a very elaborate credit card scam when they already have all your data, including your card number… except the little PIN code on the reverse of the card. Don’t fall for this trick!


    12/03/2007: - comments: 1

    Source: Blog Gigs, Who created the Google-stein? i.e. the frankenstein of the net? - We did, all together. Yes, I remember, too, when G. was just the very new guy a few years ago…


    11/17/2007: - comments: 0

    Source iknownil: He is right. The students are in debt for many years, the government workers are overpaid and they rarely are up to their tasks, the taxes are high. Very high. I even wanted to comment on his blog but I never do that if the stupid “you must be logged in to comment” is in effect. No wonder nobody is commenting on that blog. People don’t like registering just to post a short comment…


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