Have you ever considered using an online backup service before? What would you do if your computer died on you? Have you thought about how you’d cope in terms of potentially losing your important files forever?

Well I’ve recently got to find out that for myself as one night last week my computer’s power supply died with a loud bang, plunging us into darkness as it knocked off the whole house’s electricity and left me with the definitive smell of dead power supply — definitely not something that I like the smell of in the morning, evening or any other time of day!
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Since it kicked off here in the UK a few weeks ago, Google Street View has courted controversy with the residents of a Buckinghamshire village, Broughton, who refused to be photographed, and the privacy lobby who say that the service is against human rights.

Here at Zath towers, however, we prefer to focus on the fun and beneficial side of the mapping tool. Here are the top seven strange sights we’ve found so far as you take a virtual stroll around these fair isles…
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