Hmm, I wonder if this means I won’t need to worry about maintaining SquirrelMail or IMP installations any more? Google is apparently planning to offer a webmail service in competition with MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. Their service will be called GMail, and features an extraordinary 1Gbyte of storage for each user. The idea, apparently, is that users will never have to delete their old email, and will be able to make use of Google’s search capabilities to find old messages with ease. More coverage is available from CNet and Slashdot, as well as the the Google press release itself.

I have just about had it with idiots that want their hands held. I usually pester Tocsic or someone else if they have done it before ’cause it is a lot quicker then learning it myself, but if all else fails I can RTFM. In any case, the above links is one I stumbled across when looking for compiling instructions for Cygwin Mythtv (which I have given up on … I need Cygwin, DirectX, and QT, MySql, etc … the KnoppMyth is much faster) …

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I never noticed it before, but today I was looking at a picture of Bram Cohen [bitconjurer.org], authour of Bittorrent, and realized how much he looks like Adrian Paul, star of Highlander the Series. Ãœber Creepy.

A Russian woman by the name of Elena apparently likes to take motorcycle rides through the “dead zone” surrounding Chernobyl. It’s actually quite interesting looking through the numerous pictures she’s taken, and read her commentaries on Russian life and the events of the Chernobyl disaster. (In case AngelFire decides that she’s hit her bandwidth limit, there’s a mirror.)

Remember when I said that the Napster Bad flash stuff was still on the web? Well thank’s to Fyn’s post, I instantly remembered where, campchaos. So popular are these flashes still, there is a link at the top of the screen to the them.

This is a great rant about the messed up semi-metric, semi-imperial system that Canada is stuck in.

Without Garett close at hand I’ve come to experience a lack of historical anecdotes. Luckily we have Real True History to provide historical edification.

I’m going to go to sleep now.

Hi everybody. Since I doubt most of your read other blogs, you probably haven’t heard of TypeKey yet from SixApart. TypeKey is much like registered IRC nicks, imo, and really isn’t an overly big deal to me, since this is primarily a private blog which requires one to be registered to comment. Of our 8 registered users, I’ve all met in person and they are all my friends so TypeKey is of little use to me, but to others, it is a major deal.

How does TypeKey work? A person registered with SixApart, and if a blog supports TypeKey, you log into SixApart’s at the blog, it authenticates you and let’s you post coments on the blog. The advantage? If bobby posts on blog A and that blog requires TypeKey and bobby posts on blog B and that blog requires TypeKey, you know that bobby is bobby on both blogs and not some random troll pretending to be bobby.

It’s a big deal to some, and a nightmare to others. To others, though, the situtation is a little more humourous. Dive into Mark, for example, has a much more interesting look at TypeKey that has me ROTFLMAO. Over on idly.org, they have many posts devoted to it like this one, this one, and this one. I personally find all the fuss over this vapourware product amusing, but that’s just me.

Four days ladies and gentlemen. Four days before Penny Arcade and Slashdot (whom I’d like to note referenced penny-arcade)