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Previously, I wrote about The Art of Noise. While they certainly make creative, experimental music, beauty is not the first adverb that springs to mind when thinking of them.

It’s time to introduce to my other favourite band, Madredeus. Simply beautiful Fado music, featuring the beautiful voice (and person) Teresa Salgueiro.

And the song Guitarra that started it all (from the film Lisbon Story by Wim Wenders that started it all):I had the great fortune of meeting Mr. Wenders twice. He said that under the filming of Lisbon Story, the whole crew fell in love with Madredeus’ lead singer.

If you want to add some very beautiful Portuguese music to your collection, I would recommend you to start with the soundtrack.

Over the years I have tried a couple of different hosts. Last year I briefly gave one.com a try, but found their services too restrictive and moved the one web site I had with them (they only allow one) to my favourite host. So I was surprised when I received an invoice for my upcoming renewal for my hosting plan at one.com. I sent a friendly e-mail explaining that I have stopped using their services a long time ago, and that I had moved the domain name as well. One.com replied that I had to pay anyway, even though my account was now closed - because you have to terminate your account 45 friggin’ days before the renewal date. That’s like half a digital year. Obviously that clause is there for the sole purpose of extracting money from disgruntled customers.

Well, it served its purpose. I paid the bill, and I am now an (annoyed, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, cranky, critical, disappointed, discontent, discontented, displeased, dissatisfied, griping, grouchy, grousing, grumpy, irritable, irritated, kicking, kvetching, malcontent, malcontented, peeved, peevish, petulant, put out, sulky, sullen, testy, uncontent, ungratified, vexed) ex-customer. Now effectively I had to pay 24 months for a service I used maybe two of.

One.com is neither the cheapest, the fastest, the friendliest, the most open, most flexible hosting provider out there. I for one (sorry for the cheap pun) recommend Media Temple.

For Norwegian google users: Ikke bruk one.com; one.com suger.