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Three things have been of note in these last days:

- My hosting company changed my IP and the email they send was not clear on this: as I am not using their DNS services, I didn’t get forwarded to the new IP

- Every time I have to use it it’s hit and miss. Sometimes it’s not really MS’s fault: it’s the wireless card drivers’s lack of WPA-PSK, but for the most part the Windows Standard configuration panel is a pain to use. And the manufacturers’ own utilities are not that good either. I’ve had one from a cheap PCMCIA card that even refused to run in a non-administrator account.

- An old Nokia 7210 died here at home. She told me it was an accident. We went shopping for a replacement. Why do every operator and phone store advertise the price **always** as “XXX, includes 10 euro for the old phone”. All their prices are made to look 10 euro cheaper than they really are. I’d rather smash my phone than selling it to them at this price. And before you tell me it’s for recycling, they only accept working phones.