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Your favourite story was JP Kamath's video review of the new Aldo £600 notebook, which he recommends as a good purchase for students, but not for professionals.

1. Video review £600 Aldi Medion Akoya MD 96640 multimedia notebook

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Facebook was in the news again last week as the social networking site was used to organise a huge water fight in city centres across the country on Bank Holiday Monday last week.

The Facebook posting saw about 350 people gather at Leeds's prize-winning gardens that were named after former South Africa premier Nelson Mandela, the gathering and water fight caused thousands of pounds of damage.

Leeds council has vowed to find the culprits and the police may press charges for criminal damage after reviewing CCTV footage.

Of course, you don't need to be in the Police to see who was taking part - just go to to YouTube where they're several videos of the event taking place.... perhaps not the brightest way to hide the fact you've been involved in criminal activity!

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We have just moved house from London town to rural, sunny Norfolk. It's lovely and has all gone fairly smoothly, apart from my wife's running battle with BT's customer service team to get our broadband set up. Of course, the fact that BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen confirmed his departure last week has nothing to do with this event in the Garner household, although I can confess that my wife is a formidable woman and not one to be trifled with!

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This evening I have been trying to get a payment from an eBay sale through PayPal. Unfortunately for me, I have always been more of an eBay buyer than seller, keener to find a bargain, than I am to sell off my useless hoarded wares.

So having made a sale using PayPal I was confronted with the uncomfortable situation of not being able to remember two out of the three security criteria I had input when I signed up to its services. Hence I couldn't recieve the cash or find the buyer's address to send the goods to.

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Reading this blog? Read others too? Comment on some? Or perhaps you blog yourself? Well, ComputerWeekly.com is searching for the best blogs from and about the UK industry, and to do that, we need your help.

Whether you're a blogger, a commenter, or just a reader, we want to know what blogs are in your favourites folder, or have got you hitting the subscribe button in your RSS reader. Just email ITblogs@computerweekly.com with the URLs of your nominations, or visit our Blog Awards web page for more information, and a full list of the categories.

You can even nominate your own blog. And everyone who sends in a nomination will be entered into our prize draw for a £50 Amazon voucher. (Don't worry, we won't use your email address for anything else, only to contact you should you win.)

However, if you're still not convinced by this whole blogging business, take a few minutes to watch this video from CommonCraft: Blogs in Plain English (over the jump). It may not convince you to browse the blogs, but you'll understand why others do - and if you remember Fingerbobs, you'll love the homespun approach to animation, too!

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Olympia Framework
Originally uploaded by OctaviusPie

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This week we take a look at twitter.... my fellow CW blogger Ian White has been analysing social media stuff this week and has posted on twitter and has set up his own twitter stream.

Anyway while Ian is busy experimenting with twitter, some have had enough of it already. See this video from Rocketboom.com .......

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I've just been to a session that discussed the future of the e-Crime Unit, which the police are looking to set up to tackle online crime. It's been a bit of a "will it" "won't it" story so far, but progress is being made.

Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who is heading up the e-Crime project, said today that it hasn't actually got its funding from the government yet, the Home Office is considering the business cases as we speak, but she was fairly bullish that it would.

She expects to know more in a few weeks time, but can't be 100% sure it will get the green light.

Let's hope that's a case of "don't count your chickens before they're hatched" as internet crime is growing at such an alarming rate that the £5.3m the police are asking for seems a drop in the ocean to the size of the problem.

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