It seems that Yahoo is going to make an effort to comply with standards for their webmail service, which is excellent news.

Of course in typical “we know better” fashion it sounds like Google is ignoring standards yet again. Of course they still hide the source IPs as well …

If you just send plain text email then none of this will probably matter that much to you, but once you get into HTML email it’s a totally different story ….

Full story here. Picked it up here

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My sister’s boyfriend gave her an iBook G4 for Christmas. The spec isn’t bad and I’ve been updating it and installing a few bits and pieces for her today.

Since she’s a fulltime student she needed some form of word processing package, so I opted for NeoOffice, which is a Mac port of OpenOffice. I also installed Firefox and Acrobat Reader.

As far as I know she only uses MSN, so Adium would be overkill.

What other software would people recommend for a student? Ideally it should be free or open source, but if it’s a really worthwhile addition I don’t mind forking out for a license.

I can’t think of anything offhand…

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Grandad’s latest post got me giggling today. Probably not a wise thing to do, as the glass of Bordeaux was dangerously close to my laptop, but the less said about that the better!

It seems like Grandad was cold called by Talk Talk. I almost feel left out, as they never cold call me. I get to be annoyed by people trying to sell me advertising for publications that nobody seems to read instead. Maybe I can swap?

Of course it takes a lot of neck to make cold calls all day. I for one wouldn’t be able to do it.

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When I was in Spain in the late 90s one of the female groups that was getting a lot of airplay at the time was Ella Baila Sola. I got to see them in concert (for free) in Madrid during the summer of 1997.

For some odd reason one of their songs has been in my head for the last couple of days, but I couldn’t remember the lyrics or the group’s name. Trying to work out who it was and what they were called was a bit of a challenge!

The lyrics helped me to improve my Spanish at the time. I think my girlfriend at the time had given me a tape of one of their albums, but that was probably stolen along with all my other tapes a few years later (long boring story!)

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Most years at Christmas I get a chance to read books that I normally wouldn’t get round to reading.

This year is no different, though my choice of reading has proved to be rather disturbing.

Over the last few days I’ve been working my way through “Bad Men”, which tells the story of some of the Bush administration’s victims of torture being held in Cuba.

Some of the stories are truly horrendous and if you made a film of them we probably wouldn’t think the plot was plausible. Unfortunately it’s all based on fact!

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One of the hot topics at the moment is the exhaustion of ip4 space.
While this may not sound very exciting to “normal” people the impact it could have on you might be quite painful. If ISPs have to pay a heavy premium for more IP space as their networks expand, then the end users may be forced to pay a premium.

Jay Daley, Nominet’s CTO, has an interesting post on the Nominet blog about the possible creation of a market in IPv4 space. It’s an interesting read and it will be interesting to see how things pan out in the coming 12 – 36 months.

Of course if more ISPs were to start actively using ipv6 then none of this would really matter… I wouldn’t hold my breath though, as so much consumer equipment in active use at present isn’t compatible

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Online DVD rentals site ScreenClick went live on the tradedoubler affiliate network earlier today.

I’ve had mixed experiences with ScreenClick, but I joined up as it fits nicely with a few of the sites I run

Their main competitor in the Irish market seems to be MovieStar.ie

Unfortunately moviestar.ie don’t seem to like replying to emails, so the query I sent them on August 10th was read (I got a read receipt) but I never got a reply! (This seems to be a common issue with Irish companies!!!)

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Over the past few evenings I’ve been working on a new site / project. Since the backend software allows me to “easily” add new fields to the database I did. Of course I didn’t test the link submission form after the last update / addition, so it broke.

Moral of the story – testing things saves time.

If I’d taken an extra 30 seconds to make sure that the update was working it would have saved me time in the long run.

Of course working on something when you’re suffering from lack of sleep might not help ….

Or is that just a feeble excuse?

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It’s that time of year again…

Over the next few days you can expect your inbox to be bombarded with tasteful, tasteless, tacky and slick Christmas greetings.

I’ve had a few already, but so far there’s been no sign of Gaddo’s traditional Christmas card (he’s infamous for them!)

Dancing elves seem to be popular this year..

And of course there’s always the retouching of websites to give them that seasonal flavour…

James from Forbairt Media redid the Irish Webmaster logo to give it a gentle Christmas feel

Of course others have done more and less … There’s a discussion over on the site about what people have been doing

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