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Just noticed this on my Settings screen in GMail:

Haven’t dived in to see what these features can be used for but I will do in the next couple of days….

Testing Tiny Twitter for windows mobile.

I just installed Spaz. A rather unfortunate name for an application.

I am testing the information posted here:

http://www.keyboardface.com/iis-permalinks/

As I use IIS, I have not been able to use decent permalink structures but now we will see.

Is Robert Scoble such an important figure that his moving jobs is such a topic for discussion?

He’s just a bloke who used to work for Microsoft and has spent two years frantically pushing himself to the point where some people think he is important.

Who cares?

OK, twitter is turned back on!

According to the BBC, supermodel Gisele Bündchen is refusing to accept payment for her work in US Dollars because she has concerns about the stability of the currency.

Instead, she has asked for Procter & Gamble to pay her in Euros.

I think it’s the most significant story of the year.

Perhaps a model asking for payment in Euros instead of Dollars is not significant on the face of it, but what if it were not a model, but a major oil producer asking for payment in Euros instead of Dollars?

If the OPEC members railed against the Dollar and decided that the price of Crude oil would be denominated in Euros, then the USA really would be struck with higher prices at the pumps. Not only would they have to stomach the upward creep in the price of oil, they would have to cover currency fluctuation too.

If the price of oil and the Dollar both went in the wrong direction, there is no ceiling on the liability of Americans in terms of what they will have to pay to fuel their thirsty vehicles.

I am a regular traveller and usually book flights from one of three services.

Keeping track of my travel plans usually means copying and pasting parts of confirmation emails from travel sites and airlines into events on Google Calendar. It works fine but it is a touch cumbersome.

I read about tripit.com on techcrunch and so far, it looks like the perfect site for me. The idea behind it is simple, but its execution of the idea is just as good.

When you book a flight, hotel, car hire etc online, you just forward your email from that company to the tripit.com address (you have to register your email address in your tripit account first) and an itinerary is automatically created for you.

The smart thing is that travel items are grouped intelligently so that the flight you hotel you booked in Zurich between two flights in and out of the same city are threated as part of the same trip, so moving items around between itineraries is minimal.

Also, you can mix your travel suppliers so you can get the flights you booked on ba.com grouped with the hotel you booked from Expedia.

The list of sites and travel companies supported is already pretty large. Here is the list of sites supported by tripit.

My only gripe so far is that each day of your trip is displayed on the itinerary, even if you have nothing booked against those days. I don’t need that, to be honest.

Other than that, my itineraries have gone thorugh perfectly. It seems the ideal service for me and one I hope will go from strength to strength.

Tripit.com

So the outage that caused everyone’s Skype connections to go down was down to the fact that a Windows Update required a restart of millions of PCs?

No way, I do not buy it.

If this were to be believable, I would have to accept that:

• The number of installed Windows machines has suddenly reached some critical number that restarting enough of them would bring down Skype, especially as….
• MOST Windows Updates require a restart! You can hardly make any changes to Windows or Office applications without needing to restart, let alone…..
• The fact that such is the crappy nature of Windows that millions of people will be restarting their Windows machines all the time.

Also puzzling was the advice given by Skype  gave to leave Skype running during the outage. How much bandwidth was wasted, how many networks were bogged down with Skype connection requests to a system which they knew could not accept them?

Skype have a lot of goodwill but an outage like this and what seem to be dubious reasons for it have knocked my confidence in them.

I have a Full Access pass to the Podcast And New Media Expo in Ontario, California, On September 28th to 30th. It is paid for in full.

The pass is worth $299.

Unfortunately, I am unable to attend but my misfortune could work to your benefit as I am giving the pass to someone for free.

You do have to do a couple of things to do in order to qualify, which I will explain in a moment.

All qualified entrants will be entered into a draw and the winner will be drawn at random on September 1st 2007.

So what do you have to do to qualify for the draw to get a free pass to Podcast And New Media Expo 2007?

OK. Firstly, you need to post a link on your blog or website to my site - http://andrewbuonocore.com.

You can choose from one of the following links to use:

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Second, you need to give the site a Thumbs Up using Stumbleupon and also add me as a friend on Stumbleupon.

When you have done these two, send me an email to FreePass (at) andrewbuonocore.com and let me know the name of the site where you have placed the link and your Stumbleupon username and that is it!

The winner will be sent a form which has to be faxed to the Expo organisers. It has already been agreed that the pass can be transferred. Only the pass is on offer, no travel or accommodation.

Good Luck!