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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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New multi-purpose design tool!

September 10, 2004

I’ve just discovered an amazing new tool! It’s ideal for all your organizational and development needs. It sounds too good to be true, but it is! It is great for leaving memos to other people, great for leaving memos to yourself, great for reminders, ideal for note taking, perfect for roughing out designs and ideal [...]

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Gee, Mail?

September 9, 2004

Unless you’ve been living in a cave or abandoned on a desert island, you’ll know that Google has cobbled together a rather nifty web-email system entitled “GMail” (geddit? Gmail – sounds like Email?) Now, before anyone starts replying with comments about how “spooky” Gmail is and how EVIL they are for having the ability to [...]

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Quit Bugging Me!

September 8, 2004

This blog started off as a two line entry about my pet hate for people starting bug reports off with “This isn’t a bug, but…”. However, as I ate my lunch I remembered some more irritating habits I’ve witnessed over my three million year tenure as a lowly programmer who has to deal with bug [...]

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We’ve got your name!

September 3, 2004

Thanks to the internet being a wholly global affair, owning your own domain name might not be as straight forward as you’d hope. Traditionally, people gravitate towards “.com” first out of habit and then use their own country’s top level domain second. Most businesses tend to register their own country’s domain because usually the .com [...]

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BBEdit 8.0!

September 2, 2004

As some of you may know, I use Macintosh to write my code and my text editor of choice is BBEdit. I’ve used BBEdit since version 6 and every major new release brings great enhancements to the software. BBEdit are of the “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?” stable and it works for them. [...]

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