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If… things go wrong

Apparently even multinational insurance companies forget to pay their bills every now and then. At least that’s what I suspect happened to If Skadeförsäkring AB. The following domains no longer have any DNS records all of a sudden: if.no – If Forsikring AS (Norway) if.dk – If Skadeforsikring (Denmark) if.fi – If Vahinkovakuutusyhtiö Oy (Finland) […]

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Posten Sporing app - screenshot

Posten Sporing app lets me track my packages… and everyone else’s!

I just came across an interesting feature in the Posten Sporing app of Posten Norge AS.This app does the following (translated from the product description on Google Play): Record tracking makes it easy to monitor packages on their way to you with the Post Office.When you register with your mobile number and email we find

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Azure web sites down – February 27th

Azure wasn’t having one of its best days yesterday. The mess started around 07:30 local time, and lasted until almost 16:00. In other words, our sites were down for the full duration of the business day! The following table contains the ‘explanations’ Microsoft shared with the public during the downtime: No mention of the cause.

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