Aussies2007

@Aussies2007 (5336)

Australia • Age 73

Joined myLot 17 years ago

I'm too old for this Sh*t

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Aussies2007's Discussions

Internet Explorer glitch

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 23 Nov 10

I have an annoying problem Everytime I click on an internet link in my emails on Outlook Express, the link opens in a new window instead of a new tab. Does anyone knows where the setting is to make it open in a new tab? And...

internet explorer

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Smokers called to stand united

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 6 Jul 10

WE SMOKERS are a tolerant lot. We have watched the taxes on our pleasure grow over the years and rarely complained. We have conceded territory inch by inch as the health police decided we could no longer smoke in the office, on a...

smokers

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Hackers hit Shell customers' accounts

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 16 Mar 09

Online hackers have stolen personal information from almost 6,000 Shell customers in New Zealand and Australia. Shell spokeswoman Jackie Maitland confirmed to NZPA on Tuesday that 4,500 Australian and 1,400 New Zealand...

customers

hackers

shell

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What is your favourite current TV program? And why?

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 13 Mar 09

I have not been watching television for 3 years... and I am out of the loop. So I really need your help on this one. I want to buy some TV serial on DVDs... but I don't know what to get. So the real question is... What...

dvd

program

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FACEBOOK... Do you use it?

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 16 Feb 09

I tried to sign up in Facebook a couple of months ago... and when it asked for all my personal information and demanded access to all my information stored into my Yahoo account... I said "No Way!" People don't seem to realise...

facebook

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Bosses 'ignore workers' mental health'

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 6 Oct 08

Most Australian bosses ignore their workers' mental health, a new survey shows. The nationwide survey of 1,000 workers found 70 per cent of respondents' workplaces do not offer programs to support employees' mental and...

mental health

online survey

workers

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Identity fraud 'fastest-growing crime'?

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 6 Oct 08

With identity fraud becoming the nation's fastest-growing crime, Crime Stoppers has urged Australians to stop throwing personal information into rubbish bins. Identity fraud has claimed half-a-million victims in the last 12...

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Hope we sill here tomorrow to talk about it

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 10 Sep 08

A trip to the beginning of the universe In temperatures colder than outer space, massive streams of protons will hurtle in opposite directions through a 27-kilometre long tunnel beneath Geneva later today, in an attempt...

Government names our most petrol-hungry cars

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 20 Jul 08

The Holden Commodore has been outed as the most petrol-hungry of Australia's big-selling cars, as motorists mull over how to combat high fuel prices. The federal government has released a list of which cars use the most petrol...

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Kidman splashes out for house in country

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 13 Jul 08

Playing aristocratic cattle rancher Lady Sarah Ashley in the soon-to-be released film Australia has gone to Nicole Kidman's head, with reports the new mother has bought a $6.5 million property in the NSW Southern Highlands. The...

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Yahoo rejects a new Microsoft deal

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 13 Jul 08

Yahoo said Saturday it has rejected a "ludicrous" deal with Microsoft orchestrated by corporate raider Carl Icahn, who is bent on overthrowing the struggling Internet search pioneer's board. Yahoo said a "take it or leave it"...

microsoft

pioneer

yahoo

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Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread'

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 10 Jul 08

New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat...

antarctic

global warming

press release

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Oil giants lining up for slice of Iraq

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 20 Jun 08

Global oil giants are preparing to return to Iraq after being chased out of the oil-rich country 36 years ago by the late dictator Saddam Hussein, reports said. Shell, BP and ExxonMobil are all eagerly lining up to tap into the...

iraq

oil

secretary of state

Australians are world champion 'fatties'

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 20 Jun 08

Statistics showing 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost four million - are obese, were "staggering", Health Minister Nicola Roxon said. America has a 25 per cent obesity rate. Ms Roxon said the report, Australia's...

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