Category Archives: Websites

hotmail ist sehr Scheisse

April 21, 2005 – 4:30 pm

Puzzling. Crap even. Hotmail that is. It treats any mail from gmail.com as spam by default, resulting in lost e-mail and frustration all around. The story is as follows: A friend is currently travelling and working in Germany. Said chap has a gmail account, and has used it to stay in touch with family and friends [...]

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Trying out FeedBurner

April 18, 2005 – 5:52 pm

I’m giving FeedBurner a tryout to better manage the RSS/XML/Atom feeds at leyton.org. Aggregators (well, those that are pulling the index.xml files) will probably show all stories as updated, but in due course - and with fingers crossed - there are some features I’m hoping will prove a bit more useful for readers as well [...]

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Slashdot officially jumps the shark

April 13, 2005 – 6:37 pm

I’ve been getting fed up with /. for a while now, but today it officially “Jumped the Shark“. They posted a made up quote from Linus Torvalds that was used to illustrate a point in an article at The Register. A point that was deliberately provocative and hard to believe, to draw attention to some [...]

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