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Surprise finds

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Got these yesterday from a second-hand book shop here in Cabanatuan City: (from top) Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ; Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead ; William Gibson's Virtual Light ; and Programming Perl, second edition , from O'Reilly. All for Php99 each. Not bad at all.

It's tax season

And what do you know? I recently received a refund from the IRS. Wow! After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $480.23. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to process it. A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline. To access the form for your tax refund, please click here . Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time. Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated. Regards, Internal Revenue Service Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved. Err... Thanks, but I'm not even a US citizen. Unless our BIR offers refunds in dollars now? The link points to an IP address registered in Latin America. It gets better: whois info shows the following: OrgName: Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry OrgID: ...