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Mail wars

Hotmail counters Google e-mail Hotmail is boosting the amount of storage space for users of both its free and paid e-mail service. From July the basic Hotmail allowance will be boosted to 250MB and paying customers will get two gigabytes. The move is widely seen as a response to Google&

Googleblog

The official Google blog is up. (link via Jordon Cooper)

Not so you'd notice, but...

I just finished overhauling every single page on this site, blog included. The end result is absolutely no visible change whatsoever. You won't even see it with a "View Source." But now I can skin the whole site from within two files, instead of having to

Superstitions

I'm trying to resuscitate my software project, Chronicle . It's a Java blog publishing program, or it will be. It was a tragic victim of the SourceForge Kiss of Death. Fledgling software projects get registered on SourceForge with great enthusiasm, until the Kiss of Death strikes, and

Strange searches

Someone landed on my site via a Google search for "Tea Turtle," which probably landed them on my Yertle the Turtle page. I'm on the first page for that search, but I wonder if they meant to look for "teetotal," as in no alcohol.

Exceptional

Interesting what you find in the Java SDK 1.4.2 API docs. This from the entry on the GregorianCalendar object: Historically, in those countries which adopted the Gregorian calendar first, October 4, 1582 was thus followed by October 15, 1582. This calendar models this correctly. Before the Gregorian cutover,

Wallpaper

If you're going to stare at a screen all day, it may as well have something decent on it. I like computer generated artwork, usually landscapes and planetscapes, and these are my favourite artists: * Digital Blasphemy * Rob Randtoul * Ensar Yanar * Inga Nielsen * Ferenc Haraszti * Karen Williams * Juergen Eilts

Blogdom Kerfuffle

The "Blogdom of God" kerfuffle has been mentioned on several blogs of late (Bene Diction, Irene Q, Can You Hear Me Now and others). I mention it partly as an excuse to use the word "kerfuffle" in a semi-serious context. The Blogdom is an aggregator for

Pepys Project

I've mentioned the Pepys Project before, it's a blog listing by country and city, maintained by Mike of aka cooties. Pepys is a jolly good list. So if you're not signed up on Pepys, go get listed. And if you have a burning curiosity

Blogrolls and rankings, mountains and molehills

Bene Diction posted about blog ranking systems yesterday, and the post got me thinking. The blogroll on this page is for me to use. When I get home and check on blogs, I want to go to one page, and Ctrl-click on all the blogs at once (tabbed browsing plug,

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