We all know that “the name you want” is never available on Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail. The hallmark of those services seems to be e-mail addresses with huge strings of numbers and weird spellings in them.But what if you could have yourfirstname@ instead? Well, you probably could if the domain was @poweredbycoffee.net.
I had a (very) short chat with my e-mail provider this morning. And the number of e-mail accounts I can host has been bumped to a ridiculously high number I will probably never use. Those of you who have used Gmail will be right at home on this system because it’s identical. You even have the option of using POP3 or IMAP if you wish. Google’s phenomenal spam filtering is also included.
I like to think I have a somewhat cool domain name, even if it’s a little on the long side. Trust me, your fingers get used to it after a while.
I don’t often click advertisements on websites, but I saw something that caught my eye and it looked like a Canadian business, so I decided to take a look around.
I’m not sure I’m going to buy anything from them, but I spotted this at the top of their website and burst out laughing. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
For those of you who are puzzled as to what exactly happened yesterday at Mac Expo, my good friend Veronica Belmont (and her team of trained chimpanzees at Mahalo Daily) have produced this video, which summarizes the 90 minute keynote address by Steve Jobs in 60 seconds.
[P.S. It amuses me greatly that I posted this three days before the Almighty TUAW.]
The story the other day (in the last post) about the 85 year old was pretty funny.
More recently though, the street racing law found itself being enforced at the other end of the spectrum.
An 18-year old with a G2 license was (presumably) on the 401 between Chatham and Windsor in his parents’ new Chrysler 300 and pulled up beside a Chevrolet Impala with dark tinted windows, and tried to get the the driver of the Impala to race. See, the only problem was that the occupant of the car was the detachment commander of the Chatham-Kent OPP.
He stopped the kid when he hit 160 kph. For the record… the old guy was going faster.
Rarely do I get two great stories that are so close to home.
The clear winner of the two — no pun intended — has got to be the 85 year old who had the distinction of being the first person in his age bracket to be charged under the new street racing law. Driving an Oldsmobile Intrigue, he was clocked on the 407 doing 161 kph. For my American readers, that’s about 100 mph. I’ll say it again. 85 years old. Under the terms of the new law, his car was impounded immediately and he faces a minimum $2,000 fine if found guilty.
A little closer to home, the Durham Regional Police seem to have a bit of a hacker problem. See, I’d link their site, but it’s down because some Turkish hacker plastered his greeting all over the front page. (There’s a picture of the defacement on the link.) At the time of writing their site is completely dead. I’d love to know what they’re doing to it. I’d also love to know how ridiculously stupid their security was before this alleged hacker defaced the site.
My traffic (measured in raw hits) is down about 13% over last year. I’m not too upset about it. I wasn’t as much of a blogging maniac as I was last year, and I was a little more focused in other areas. I’d like to think I picked up some steam at the end of the year, but we’ll see if that shows in next year’s numbers.
When I first became involved in the World Wide Web, Netscape was my browser of choice. I’ve always hated Internet Exploder, and Netscape - for many years - was a viable alternative. In later days, Netscape got bought by America Online, and Mozilla and Firefox became “the good browser”, but it was still based on the original Netscape.
Today America Online announced that Netscape development will cease on February 1st, 2008. With an estimated market share of less than 1%, I guess they decided it was time to pull the plug.
I haven’t used Netscape in a long, long time but I will still raise a glass to it’s departure from the blogosphere. Thanks for a great ride, Netscape. You were the bomb, and no I don’t mean the bomb icon.
The story the other day (in the last post) about the 85 year old was pretty funny.
My traffic (measured in raw hits) is down about 13% over last year. I’m not too upset about it. I wasn’t as much of a blogging maniac as I was last year, and I was a little more focused in other areas. I’d like to think I picked up some steam at the end of the year, but we’ll see if that shows in next year’s numbers.
When I first became involved in the World Wide Web, Netscape was my browser of choice. I’ve always hated Internet Exploder, and Netscape - for many years - was a viable alternative. In later days, Netscape got bought by America Online, and Mozilla and Firefox became “the good browser”, but it was still based on the original Netscape.