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via: Airbag

If reduced clutter and easy reading is what your after then TidyRead has been released as a Firefox Addon. Note: it is still at experimental stage.

The overlay method makes it easy to use for articles and has the benefit of hiding all those online advertisements.

All of a sudden Gmail 2 is as slick as greased lightening.

I've bitched about it's slow performance before and defaulted to the older version.
Now I'm pleasantly surprised and wonder what's changed.

Apart from a Firefox upgrade, everything else remains the same.

Treating asylum seekers will cost millions

Where do these conservative dickheads come from?

The pollies on the right have their knickers in a knot because desperate refugees from Afganistan or Sri Lanka or any other hell hole dare get in a leaky boat and try for Australia.

So this Doctor, come conservative Health Minister, decides to play politics on Anzac Day weekend bitching about how expensive it will be to treat refugees suffering burns.

He then hedges his bets by declaring that Australia is a compassionate country that always deals with humanitarian issue and that he's proud of the efforts of Doctors and Medicos.

Put up or shut up Dr.Brown. Reaffirm you Hippocratic Oath or piss off.

As a country we spend a lot more on idiot politicians, like you, than we do on desperate asylum seekers.

Read this Dr. Brown.

EasyCGI purchased my previous Australian web host, moving all customers and accounts as part of the deal.

Based on lousy EasyCGI Hosting Reviews, we found a new Australian based provider. Once that was settled we could cancel the involuntary accounts at EasyCGI. Not so Easy

The only way to cancel an EasyCGI account is via a telephone call and because it's from outside the USA, it means full international call rates.
So far it's taken two such calls, with the Easy person wondering why I would want to cancel!!

Why do I feel this won't be the end of the matter? The promised confirmation email still hasn't arrived.

If you buy an offshore business and it's customer base, show some respect for those customers instead of making them jump through expensive hoops when they no longer want your service.

Update: Finally, action. After calling the USA at 4 AM this morning, I was getting testy that I had no promised email of confirmation. Somewhere on their labyrinth web site I found a form. I told my story and to my surprise I got an email requesting I reply. Told the story one more time and within 30 minutes I had a reply that the accounts will be cancelled, deleted and gone within 45 hours.

My thanks to Ken however I still wonder why that couldn't have happened in the first place.

Update: Yes, confirmation that EasyCGI have deleted our sites. There's app $100 I won't be billed for something I never wanted.