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Be Warned - Geek girls (and other readers of the gentle female persuasion) may be excited after viewing the following notices of clothing on sale! Boyfriends and husbands should watch for signs of wallet fingering and wardrobe shuffling and muttering – “There’s no room i here - what can i throw out to make room for all these yummy clothes?” Spyjournal takes no responsibility for sudden increases in credit card limits.

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Brisbane

Madaboochoo are having a massive warehouse sale where you could win $5000* worth of new season designer clothing.

All you have to do to win this amazing prize is come along on the day of the sale and purchase any item of clothing.

*Please see the website for full terms and conditions of entry www.madaboochoo.com.au

WHEN
Saturday 25th July, 2009- one day only.

WHERE
Unit 9, 21 Duntroon Street, Brendale, Brisbane

The Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane - Dinner 5 is on this week – and the girls are going to be doing guitar hero and more at the Microsoft Offices here in Brisbane. As usual Bronwen Zande from soul solutions is doing a stirling job organising it if her facebook entries are anything to go by!

They will be spoken to (in between bouts of guitar hero hilarity and girly giggling) by Tracey Whitelaw.

Tracy Whitelaw is a self-confessed geek and gadget girl who creates robot brains in her position as the Chief Knowledge Engineer at artificial intelligence company 'MyCyberTwin'. Based on the Gold Coast, Tracy works in an environment that delivers fully customised personalities and characters to a number of companies and businesses including NASA, AMP, NAB, PBL Media and others.

I’ve mentioned this site before, the Missy Confidential website. It is an awesome site for our Australian Readers to find themselves great bargains shopping for shoes, fashion clothing and accessories, lingerie, designer gear and cosmetics etc. They also have a blog, competitions and forums.

The Mom Blog Network is huge. The nest mom in the world – My wife Judith – has her blog connected to this site now. Feel free to subscribe to her cooking and craft tips and see the goss from inside our family life! or get it direct from her site at www.rasita.biz

Today’s list of cool tools and weird things is brought to you by – well actually just me. But Kitty can hold her iPhone next to her Dell Laptop showing that she loves both PC and Apple. and yes pink is her favourite colour!

Lets start off with some Microsoft Technologies

Amit has written a good how to article explaining How to Insert Images in a Word Document without Embedding

john has written about his ongoing OneNote testing as part of the OneNote development team in at Microsoft. Interesting stuff. We love OneNote here – its our primary team communication tool (after Outlook) and we use Livemesh to synchronise our shared notebooks with our team spread around the world.

www.ferrari.com is written using Sharepoint Designer (now being offered for free) and is published with a Sharepoint Backend. Awesome! I like the 612 Scaglietti best.

Philip writes Exchange Integrated Outlook – Recovering Deleted Items. A good detailed how to.

Weird and wonderful

Cake Wrecks has some photos of awesome cake decorating – Stargate style!

PayPal can be used to send and receive payments online. Once you sign up for PayPal, you can send money to anyone with an email address or mobile phone.

You can use money from your PayPal balance or from another payment method of your choice, such as bank account, credit or debit card.

Recipients are then notified by email that they have received a payment from you. Simple.

What are the benefits of using PayPal?

It's trusted
PayPal is a leading online payment provider that offers fast, easy and secure payment.

It's easy
PayPal enables virtually anyone with an email address or mobile phone to send and receive money in real time.

It's preferred
PayPal is the most preferred way to pay online, supported by Australian online shoppers.*

It's private
PayPal never shares your financial details with sellers or online stores.

It's convenient
You can add bank, credit or debit card or use your PayPal balance to pay for any purchase, you choose.
*Source: Nielsen Consumer Report 2H 2007 and 1H 2008.

The text for this article was taken from an email sent to me by PayPal. I receive no affiliate payments or commissions from PayPal and received nothing for posting this article. This is simply an explanation for you.