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Another test, this time I put step1 in the blogger template , rather than in the web site page Came up with error 550 550- blogger.htmlNo space left on device Error in upload. Web host says I have 6MB left. This is so frustrating! Tried republishing entire site rather than just latest. Comes back with […]
A test to see if Haloscan comments appear
A good site for finding out definitions of some common English words and expressionsQuestions & AnswersIndex Even has a RSS feed so I can get it using bloglines
gmail’s spam filter is getting worse 107 identified 128 let through. That’s two days worth of spam!
Interesting facts about my gmail account. In the 7 days I have had it opened 843 spams have arrived (from a redirection I set on the geoff@cortexcontrollers.com account) of these google succesfully put 424 into the spam box. The spam now occupies 2MB of space so in around 10 years the spam will fill my […]
A cool bike for Cambridge, A mobile hotspot for laptops. Magic Bike :: Wireless Access Bike Perhaps we ought to have a punt hotspot for all the students revising on the banks of The Cam!
An article on how Google may spend its 250 million dollars on its new hardware this year. With 160GB discs costing around 100 dollars thats an awful lot of storage.BW Online | May 4, 2004 | Google’s Big-Bucks Expansion Plans
Natty bit of software that allows you to upload photos rather like an instant messenger. You can set wether they are public/private etc Welcome to Flickr! . Here is their own description:- You can use Flickr to: * Chat and exchange photos live with your friends * Meet people who have the same interests as […]
Interesting new social siteupMeetup: Organizing local interest groups.very simple interface apparently Pierre Omidyar, the founder and Chair of eBay has made an investment in it. No meetings in Cambridge yet!
Now been running the geoff@cortexcontrollers.com into my gmail account. In little over 2 hours it received 22 spam messages of which gmail only managed to filter 10 as spam. Obviously the google guys have a lot of work to do. The spam messages were very straightforward ones mailwasher would have disposed of them instantly.