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		<title>Is it unreasonable to expect telco gouging to be stopped?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 09:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague, knowing that I had recently fallen foul of yet another telco for thousands of dollars of &#8220;excess usage charges&#8221;, sent me this link, presumably thinking it might make me feel better. Instead, it prompted me to recall that &#8230; <a href="http://nigelball.org/2010/05/02/is-it-unreasonable-to-expect-telco-gouging-to-be-stopped">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of bidpax.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago Facebook carried an advertising campaign for a business called BidPax, a so-called penny auction site. Briefly, you pay BidPax for bids to be placed on their auctions. Each bid costs about $.70. When an auction starts, &#8230; <a href="http://nigelball.org/2009/12/16/beware-of-bidpax-com">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Odd currency conversion from Paypal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was about to buy an eBook about iPhone application development for $USD7.99 Luckily enough I happened to notice that the currency conversion to AUD was not only wrong, but out by a factor of 100! I was just a &#8230; <a href="http://nigelball.org/2009/12/05/odd-currency-conversion-from-paypal">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft believes I am totally STUPID</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and hopes that my employees are too! This week my colleague Greg and I both received a CDROM in the mail from Microsoft. Since my personal computers run OS X or Linux, I didn&#8217;t even open the envelope at &#8230; <a href="http://nigelball.org/2009/04/03/microsoft-believes-i-am-totally-stupid">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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