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I’ve just been invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta, which has surprised me!
It’s loads different to GMail, but not better or worse IMHO. It does seem a mite slower than what you would hope for, but come on, it’s a web app! It does look a little better than GMail, and […]

I’ve been working with one or two clients lately (taking designs and turning them into working xhtml/css and some js), and some of it has been really frustrating. On the one hand you want to prove that you’re capable at what you can do, and thus are able to work their designs into web […]

I’m busy writing something for .Net magazine and thought that I’d post the longer version (I often have to strip down content to make it fit) as I’ve been having conversations on this topic with a few folk recently. It’s not rocket science, but easy to screw up if you don’t join all the […]

Had my first (almost) full night of sleep last night, since coming back from SxSW, and boy does it feel good! Looking forward to catching up with the stuff from SxSW that I said I would over the next few days too

I’m onto my second pot of coffee today. In this weird kind of surreal place where I feel half awake and half asleep, but I’ve got so much work t get out over the next few days I can’t afford to sleep properly ’till then, so I guess I’m gonna have to live on […]

I’ve been using GMail with the same settings for ages now, and it’s never been a problem until yesterday and today - seems that I can’t connect to the SMTP server on ports 25 nor 465 - anyone having the same problem? or know what’s up?
Update:
Error number is “0×800CCC7D” and it looks like other folk […]

My apologies to the three people who actually read this blog - I’ve only started to feel normal after going to SxSWi and not sleeping much in like 48 hours. Anyways, I’ve got a bunch of client work that needs attention this weekend, so I’m going to try post a SxSW review as soon […]

Google have started an interesting discussion after the launch their Payments service on Google Base, which will allow people with a Google Account to buy Google products/services. Still in it’s early stages, Google Base is a logical competitor to eBay (and Craigslist), so the offering of Payments is potentially an answer to eBay / […]

OK, so I’ve never really liked the trackpad that comes on most or all laptops these days, but now I’m starting to get used to it and it’s not soo bad… I’m still missing my mouse a lot though - writing and working with email and Outlook is one thing, but coding with a […]