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Skype is doing phenominal. They are doing so well, in fact, that their competitors are exercising unfair business practices to deny Skype business. In one of my blog posts I wrote about how Telmex Blocks VoIP Traffic and Skype.com Web Traffic, and it should also be noted that teh United Arab Emirates is blocking Skype.com as well. I suppose these people are pissed that Skype is offering a service for free which they were hoping to charge customers for.. It's true that Skype is changing the way people communicate and traditional phone service providers are going to have a difficult time competing unless they keep up with the times. =)

Would someone do me a favor and tell me why this is newsworthy? Alright so Microsoft announces eight security fixes. Fantastic. They've announced five thousand before this, and they're gonna release five thousand more. Do yourself a favor and setup your box for auto-update, install a good AV program, use Firefox instead of IE and make sure you're running XP SP2, and just consider yourself relatively safe. It's a windows desktop for christ's sake. Who cares if it gets owned. You're an idiot if you have anything important on there in the first place. ;-)

Since hamar.sk is getting slammed by slashdotters, I setup a quick download mirror of The Sphere XP on subterrain.net.

Just in case this site gets slashdotted, I setup a quick mirror of the research paper: DSTbreak.pdf

oops! looked at a few hobby type sites - a 20W CO2 laser can be built for roughly £70. This site: a funky CO2 laser has some nice pix.