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German news portal tagesschau.de are being smart and try to convince us the IPv4 system was exhausted – so the internet had to be shut down for the day in order to upgrade ICANN’s servers to IPv6. I see … If there ever was an April fool’s joke as transparent as this … Oh, and you can find an English translation here. Ecosia is a new, green, eco-friendly search engine. For every search query, approx. 2 sqm of tropical rainforest are saved. Ecosia is being supported by Yahoo and Bing, they run their servers 100% on green electricity and they donate 80% of their advertising revenues to a WWF project saving tropical rainforests wordlwide. You can make Ecosia your default search engine and thus help making the world a better place! This has nothing to do with photography, but I still wanted to share this little episode with you. For weeks now I’ve been getting eMails from Amazon, telling me that there was a payment on my Amazon Marketplace seller’s account which they would like to transfer to my bank accout. Since I couldn’t remember ever having such an account, nor ever selling anything via Amazon Marketplace, I ignored those eMails until yesterday, when I decided to write to Amazon and ask them why they kept sending me those messages. It turned out that back in 2002 I actually did sell something via Marketplace, namely a CD by Glenn Gould, for 9,49 €, and that the money had indeed never been transferred to my bank account. P.S.: I’m working on my review of the Cosmicar/Pentax 25/1.4, so expect it soon! |
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But at least this shows that they thoroughly keep track of the transactions being made via their platform, and that they care about everything going the right way!