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I was told that the “Panda GateDefender Performa” software, from pandasecurity.com, refuses its users access to my site, arturmarques.com, even after adding it to its white list, under the argument that the site is about “piracy / illegal software”!! This is just absurd, incredible, and very informative of the (lack) of quality you can expect from “Panda [...]

I just bought a couple of phone batteries for my very old Ericsson T29S, fromhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=320293795383 I will be paying 19.74 EUR for the two batteries, delivered from Hong Kong to Portugal. The price is computed this way:2x 1200 Mah batteries = 12.82 USDdelivery = 11.50 USDoptional insurance = 1.50 USDtotal = 25.82 USDeBay/Paypal EUR/USD exchange rate = [...]

When you are working with cells formatted as having dates, if you subtract them, you get how many days separate those dates. Problems might arise when you are writing a “date” on some cell, but you are using a custom format for the year, month and day.Because of the custom format, functions like “DATEVALUE”, that [...]

2008, the worst year for stocks, since the great depression, is over.Chances are that 2009 will be better, for stocks. The pictures below are snaps from http://finance.yahoo.com/. DOW’s 2008 (bottom on 2008–11): NASDAQ’s 2008 (bottom on 2008–11): SP500’s 2008 (bottom on 2008–11): Tags: money, stocks, 2008