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You really DO need a firewall!!

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Chris Pirillo put out a good article on why you need a software firewall on your machine and no, that’s NOT the Windows firewall.

Read the article here.

Full Disclosure: I use the firewall that Chris talks about in this article and it’s everything he says and more.

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A victory for the “Take Back the Beep” campaign

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

In today’s column, David Pogue relates what AT&T did.

Pogue’s Post

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Gmail outage

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

As a lot of you likely use Gmail, the fact that it was down (the web interface, not the POP/IMAP side of things) caused you some consternation.

Well, here is the explanation from the Gmail blog as to what happened.

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