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    The day I nearly lost my family

    Jul 28, 2021 3 minutes

    I am hoist by my own petard.

    I offer myself to you as skilled in internet matters. Yet I have almost been caught out by one of the most easily foreseen and old-fashioned of online pitfalls. One of the online services I have recommended for years has closed because it couldn’t make enough money.

    Fair enough – that’s life. But I almost didn’t notice, and so almost lost everything I

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