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US Government warns against Internet Explorer

i just read that the US government has recommended that people just fucking stop using IE.

more info here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16922

i've been using Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix as my primary web browser now for over a year, and have never looked back. it does everything IE does, plus a metric fuck ton more - through built in features, extensions, and themes.

the current version of Firefox is 0.9.1, and you can get more info and download it from here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

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i got Gmail!

i just got an invite from someone already using the Gmail service, and got myself a Gmail account now!

the address is: xenomorph AT gmail.com. (i'm typing it like that in the hope that spam spiders don't pick it up.)

you can visit HERE to read a bit about Gmail. it's basically an e-mail service provided by Google that offers 1 Gigabyte of e-mail storage (compared to just a few megs from services like Hotmail or Yahoo).

the Gmail service is in a closed testing state right now, so you can only get an account by first receiving an invitation from someone who already has an account.

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