Category: Personal Ramblings
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Nice tech rally today
The stock market has already recovered quite a bit since the crash earlier this year. The Dow Jones closed at 13,010 (+1.48%) today, the highest level since early January. Especially tech stocks did really well today, Nasdaq gained 2.81% and is now at the highest level since mid-January. The markets seem to be happy as…
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Canon EOS 450D – New camera has arrived!
I received my Canon EOS 450D dSLR this morning. Canon announced this camera in January and after weeks of waiting it’s finally available in some retail stores. I bought mine at a webshop called digicamshop.be and I’m very pleased with their service, I placed an order around 5 P.M. yesterday and I received the camera around 10.30…
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Argh.. downtime
Argh.. my online properties were down for more than 6 hours today . Fortunately my webhosting provider has very little downtime (except scheduled downtimes for server maintenance) but when it does happen it’s very inconvenient. Each minute of downtime means visitors won’t be able to reach your site and less traffic equals less income. I’m…
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Misc. ramblings – March 30, 2008
Razer Destructor review I’ve been slacking a bit this year but I finally got a new review online. The Razer Destructor is a $40 mousepad that ships in a very neat carrying case. Currently I’m working on a review of the Spire Edge laptop sleeve and a review of the OCZ Vendetta 2 is also…
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When do you stop working for your government?
I just read an article over at CNN that this year’s Tax Freedom Day in the U.S. is April 23rd. Tax Freedom Day is a purely theoretical date that helps you to visualise how much the government steals from the income of an average American. It depends a lot on the state you’re living in…