From the monthly archives:

September 2004

Email needs a rethink

September 27, 2004

Email is one of the biggest advantages of the internet. It’s one of the most prolific advances in global communication the world has seen since the invention of the telephone. It’s liberating and very convenient to be able to send of a virtual letter and know that it’ll be received almost immediately.
Email is one technology [...]

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G(oogle|mail|browser)?

September 21, 2004

The rumour machine is in full swing over at the Google camp.
The New York Post published an article about the speculation that Google is recruiting some of the best brains on the internet (explains why I didn’t get asked) – specifically “the” java guy and several Internet Explorer developers. They can afford it to as [...]

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Cookies Suck

September 16, 2004

No, not the baked chocolate chip kind. They will never suck. Ever. If the entire world was sucked into a black hole, the only thing left would be chocolate chip cookies. Because they never suck.
I mean the digital variety that don’t sound even as bit as tasty. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t Sometimes browsers [...]

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New Spamless, Virus Free Email System!

September 14, 2004

I am in the middle of writing a new email system to replace the current email system.
It’s guaranteed spam free, virus free and it’s never wrong. I’m calling it Femail.
On the surface it works just like an ordinary email system. The basic concept is the same. The real beauty of the system is in the [...]

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GUI-Ga-Ga

September 13, 2004

There aren’t many brave developers out there anymore. We’re too scared to break convention – even if it’s begging to be broken – because we don’t want to be the pioneers that start a new trend. We only hear about the successful pioneers; the ones that really made a difference. We rarely hear about the [...]

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