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Moving Melbourne

If you live in Melbourne, are looking for an environmentally conscious mover with great rates and only need to move a one bedroom apartment, two bedroom house up to an average sized office, baby hippo, juvenile elephant or I assume any other form of infant jungle/african plains animal (probably not girafes) then Man with a Van is the mover for you!

Their fleet is a registered part of Greenfleet, which means they avoid & reduce emissions where ever possible and offset the rest by planting native forests to soak up all those green house gases. Being carbon neutral means they're certainly playing their part to sort out the environment.

And with prices starting from just $77 per hour they certainly aren't passing on any offset costs to the consumer. Nope man with a van are just an aussie company with old school aussie values. They're friendly and helpful and do best by their customers. So if you're in Melbourne give Man with a van a call or submit a quote inquiry through their website, you won't be sorry you did.

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Where did you get that shirt?

It's happened to most of us at one time or another, you're walking down the street and someone walks passed wearing a T-shirt with a design, slogan or logo that you just have to have! You look everywhere for the shirt, in the designer shops, in the department stores, in the specialty boutiques but alas you're left shirtless and pondering where they got the damned thing.

Chances are they found it at one of the numerous online T-shirt shops, and with often reasonable prices why wouldn't you open yourself up to the 100's of millions of T-shirt designs on offer online, 24/7. Most fan based websites have their own store and merchandise, including even US! The TJandSarah.com webstore offers loads of great slogan T-shirts and other merchandise so you can show off your wit to the world. But of course, our products aren't going to be everyone's cup of tea, nor (unfortunately for us) would you want to shop exclusively with us for your T-shirt needs.

For the younger reader (or their parent/guardian) Emma-Lee Tee is a great place to start. They have a good selection of T-shirts for every type of teen; from the ultra hip to ultra hippie and with their Annabel collection they even have emos and goths covered too. As a bonus if you live in the USA or Canada shipping is free, but here is the best part if you're an international customer shipping is a flat rate $8! No more nasty surprises at the check-out.

After a T-shirt to make passes by laugh? T-Shirt Hell & CharGrilled are two places to find some pretty funny shirts. They offer a wide range of hilarious T-shirts to suit most styles of humor, from the in your face, to the most subtle satire. But of course they are only 2 of many websites offering hilariously slogan tees, so you also might want to hit your preferred search engine if you can't find what you're looking for there.

Of course for some of you the creative bug might hit and you'll want to design your own T-shirt; there are services that offer that too. Zazzle is a printing service which offers a wide range of product, style and colour options on which you can place your own designs, slogans or logos. Incredibly reasonable prices to! And if you feel so inclined Zazzle will even let you SELL your designs to the public too! Custom your shirt is another fantastic service offering things like stubby holders that Zazzle don't. The only draw back is you have to submit for a quote instead of the whole process being DIY.

So there you have it, a new window into the world of T-shirt design. Now you only need go forth and find that T-shirt you've been looking for, for the better half of a decade.

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EASTER SCAM ALERTS!

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued an alert for Australians to be on the look out for the following scams during the easter period.

(1) As there is often a lot of charitable work done during the easter period, scammers dress up and pretend to be accepting donations on behalf of charity groups or schools. The scammer(s) my work singularly or in groups and may approach you in the street, at your door or by telephone. Please be aware of this scam before you give to charity.

If you wish to give to charity it may be a good idea to call the charity directly and pledge your donation that way.

(2) Holiday & Accommodation scams happen most often during periods like easter. If you receive an unsolicited phone call or email offering you a discount holiday or accommodation this could be a scam. Do not give payment upfront to such persons and demand a contact phone number and address for the agent offering the holiday special. Hang up, search online to make sure they really are legit and if so call them back to confirm the holiday offer.

(3) If you get emails wish subject lines like "Your friend has sent you an easter card" this is probably a virus/trojan. If you open the email your computer will become infected. It's best to ask your friends to tell you before hand if they're going to send you an electronic greeting card over easter. If you get a card which no one has told you about, DO NOT OPEN IT, simply delete it. And of course as always make sure you computer has up-to-date anti-virus definitions and firewall protection.

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How to combat Cyberstalking

As some of you might have noticed I've been the victim of Cyberstalking for quite awhile now. They take breaks when they get bored, but for some reason they always come back. They are of course made up of ex-lovers who seemingly can't get over the ex part. I suggest that some of them are also made up of the misguided friends of some ex-lovers. At any rate, while it isn't life threatening or anything, it does get rather tiresome. So as I have taken steps to squash the matter today, legally once and for all.

The following are some ideas if you are the victim of cyberstalking, on how to squash the problem once and for all! Of course it all leads to the police and court in the end, with a cyberstalking conviction resulting in up to 10 years imprisonment (depending on where you are) for the fool who tried to mess with you online;

(1) SAVE EVERYTHING! If it's emails, make sure you keep them and print them off. If it's comments on a website, hit the print screen button on your keyboard (prt scr) then paste the resulting screenshot into MS paint or whatever imaging program you prefer. Make sure a record is kept of EVERYTHING! Including any replies you might make.

(2) IF it's on a website you own, or it's through email, be sure to save their IP address as well, this is VERY important. IP addresses can eventually help police find out exactly who is doing it and show a pattern of harassment. It doesn't matter if the IP is static or dynamic, ISPs keep logs of what accounts hold what IP addresses at what dates and time periods. You can find someone's IP address from an email by looking in the email source information.

(3) Buy a exercise pad. You know the type you wrote in at school? No, not the text books you drew all over, the lined exercise books you wrote in. You need one. Everytime your cyberstalker interacts with you record the date, time, what was said (for longer comments/emails subject lines will do), their IP address (if known), their email address (if it's an email), where the contact took place (email/URL of the website/etc) and the file name(s) of any screenshot(s) you take to document the contact.

(4) Join a group; there are plenty of groups around for people who have been cyberstalked. By joining a group not only do you know you're not alone, but they can help you with other ideas on how to combat the problem.

(5) After a few months, when a pattern of cyberstalking and harassment can definitely be shown it's time to bring in the law. For this you want a two pronged attack if possible, comprising both the Police and a lawyer acting on your behalf. When it comes to the Police don't take no for an answer, cyberstalking is against the law, if you've been able to get a lawyer they will be able to help you get the police involved. Once you have the police involved they can watch the activities of your cyberstalker (and find out their IP address if you don't already have it) which will further show the pattern of cyberstalking and harassment. Make sure though that you continue all the other steps even after the police have become involved. Your lawyer will be able to help keep the police on track with the investigation and perhaps even lodge their own private investigation into the matter.

If you follow these steps, then it should be easy for the police to get a conviction on your cyberstalker, sending them to jail and giving you some peace and quite. :))

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Apparently I'm a dog...

Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can't be human.

The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz
Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!
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