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If you don't already use WPA-AES, turn it on. Use MAC address filtering. Enable NAT on your router. Enable its firewall and IDS features. Check their logs regularly. Double check port forwarding rules, secure them with IP ACLs if necessary. Setup usernames and (strong) passwords on your Windows system. Use TLS encryption for your emails and especially for authentication. Get good AV for your email. Apply tinfoil liberally. - by Me!
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I like this a lot:

I'm sure it's definitely subject to taste, but the black one is certainly growing on me. They have a website all about it - I do rather like the look and that it can do so much stuff and pause and record to SD card and has a USB port and...
Maybe it's time to retire that yellowing old Sony alarm radio thing I've had since I was 14 perhaps.
As two festive occasions dawn upon us (my birthday, and that other lesser one in late December), here follows a suggestion list of what to get me - just so you don't have any excuses:
- A rather splendid Crystal XBox with mod-chip
- A controller to use with the aforementioned
- Shrek 2
- A Global carving knife (no, really!)
- Grill pan, take your pick of a nice one :)
- Wooden Trivets
- Pervy stuff? Try RoB or Expectations or Fettered Pleasures or MEO or...
- Any of the Eddie Izzard DVDs which I don't have (which is most of them to be honest): Definite Article, Glorious, Dress To Kill, Unrepeatable and We Know Where You Live
- Bladerunner
I'm sure I'll think of lots of other wonderful things as well, so I'll add those as I think of them...
[Edit:] See, I told you I'd think of more things. I spot a theme developing...