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When deciding on a web hosting deal, it is beneficial to go beyond host web site hopping. In fact, you’ll be much be much better off visiting web hosting review sites and building your shortlist from there. If you’ve been to web hosting review sites, you’ll understand that getting useful information requires about potential hosting providers can be tiring. In fact, at the end of the day you’ll end up with too much data but not enough information to make an informed decision.

A new web hosting review site that tries to make a difference from the start is webhostingbluebook.org. This is my review of Web Hosting Bluebook, and I hope it will be useful for web hosting seekers out there.

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If you’re a regular reader of HTNet, you’d know that I’ve been looking for a new web hosting provider. The good news is that the server has been reasonably stable since then. The bad news, for my current hosting provider that is, is that I’m still going to switch to a competitor.

As server operating costs become lower by the year, you can now get decent hosting packages at reasonable prices. Heck, some annual packages now cost less than a monthly fee ten years ago!

However, with this benefit comes a curse; where can you find reliable quality hosting at affordable rates?

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I’ve accepted a ReviewMe offer to check out Say The Time, a Windows application that claims to help us get organised - the fun and easy way. Features of Say The Time include:

• Audio reading of the current time
• Customizable reminders
• Definable taskbar display modes
• Synchronization with time servers
• Built-in calendar
• Stopwatch and countdown timers
• International time viewer

On the surface, Say The Time looks like a pretty simple application. The objective of my review is to see whether it lives up to its claim of helping users get organized in a fun and easy way.

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I currently use credit cards supplied by one bank. Why? Because frankly, I just don’t see the benefit of having multiple credit cards from numerous financial institutions. Credit card interests are almost identical here in Malaysia, regardless of where you get your credit cards from.

If you have proof that shows otherwise, by all means, please let me know.

Sometimes I envy folks from the US. They have literally hundreds of credit cards to choose from. Talk about having choices! However, having lots of choices means you also have lots of analysing and selection to do. Ideally, you should only pick the most suitable credit card(s) for your lifestyle.

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Bruce Willis is one of my favourite actors. This is one of the major reasons why I just had to watch Die Hard 4.0.

The storyline is simple. Thomas Gabriel, a talented hacker, is systematically getting rid of all “competition” prior to executing his masterplan; a firesale that will cripple the USA. Next on the list is Matt Farrell.

Fortunately for Farrell, John McLane managed to get to him before the evil hacker’s goons smoked him. What follows is about a dozen shoot-em-up and unbelievable vehicle manipulation scenes before the bad hacker is finally smoke by Mr Yippee-Ki-Ay himself.

So how’s the movie? Well, I’m definitely not impressed! The plot is so underdeveloped that I have no doubt that this is the worst installation of the Die Hard series.

Nothing is wrong with the plot itself; evil hackers taking over the world stuff has been rehashed and regurgitated by Hollywood for quite some time already. I doubt that Die Hard 4.0 will be the last on the topic.

What spoils the movie is that in the process of creating the villain, too many corners got cut. No clear motives (except of the ultimate plan, of course), no sense of character development, no build up. Basically, the villain could’ve taken over the USA without going through all the techno-scheming.

It’s like he’s choosing the hard way just for the hell of it… and sucks at executing the plan.

Overall, I can only give Die Hard 4.0 a rating of 3/5. It’s an average movie that doesn’t do justice to the Die Hard franchise.