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♦ Color me impressed - the new camera lenses that I ordered not only got here with all of the items listed, but it got here before the paypal payment cleared the bank! (Ordered Sept. 5th, arrived Sept. 6th via standard ground mail.)

Now I want to go outside and play with my new wide-angle and telephoto lenses! ♦

♦ I am an angry squirrel with a fluffy tail that hates people in general. In order to be sensitive and emotional I first would need to give a damn. Did I mention my fluffy tail? ♦

♦ I certainly hope despite this new find we continue pressing on for the development of alternative, renewable fuels. ♦

Google brings the world free books
By Stan Beer
Thursday, 31 August 2006

Google search now gives users the option to search for book titles and download PDF files files of books out of copyright for free. However, the choice of downloads is still very limited. More...

Don't keep secrets on your cell phone
Others can retrieve data even after you believed you have wiped the slate clean.

By Ted Bridis
Associated Press
Thursday, August 31, 2006

The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days.

Later, the married man bought a new phone. He sold his old one on eBay, at Internet auction, for $290.

The guys who bought it now know his secret.

The married man had followed directions in his phone's manual to erase his information, including lurid exchanges with his lover. But it wasn't enough.

Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.

And it can be resurrected using specialized, inexpensive software found on the Internet.

A company, Trust Digital of McLean, Va., bought 10 phones on eBay this summer to test phone-security tools it sells for businesses. The phones could work with corporate e-mail systems.

Software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between lovers.

The other phones contained:

* One company's plans to win a multimillion-dollar federal transportation contract.
* E-mails about another firm's $50,000 payment for a software license.
* Bank accounts and passwords.
* Details of prescriptions and receipts for one worker's utility payments.

The recovered information was equal to 27,000 pages -- a stack of printouts 8 feet high.

"We found just a mountain of personal and corporate data," said Nick Magliato, Trust Digital's chief executive.

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