Google Calendar access?

  • April 14, 2006
  • James Skemp
For the last 10 minutes, while downloading the latest Microsoft patches from Tuesday, I've been trying to access Google Calendar. I'm prompted to login, after a long wait, and then I wait some more, only to be sent to my Google Account page. So, are they limiting access to the Calendar now as well? I like Google - it's the only search engine I use (and it's the engine most people use - for better or worse) - but they need to make sure they can handle the heavy demand's that their launches bring.

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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

  • March 29, 2006
  • James Skemp

Here's an interesting article out of the Googleplex: Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics.

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Found: 40 free HTML/CSS templates

  • March 24, 2006
  • James Skemp
Alessandro Fulciniti, along with an unnamed number of people, have create 40 CSS-based templates, free for download, available at http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/. They've got near every possible layout that I can think of, along with a number more. Stick on a stylesheet, and you're golden. The only real problem I see is that navigation items should, according to some sources, come before the main content area. After all if the CSS disappears, then you'll still want navigation to come first.

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Upgrading (our local install of) WordPress

  • March 11, 2006
  • James Skemp

In a previous guide, we walked through installing WordPress on a local machine. This time, we'll be upgrading WordPress. For this guide, we'll be upgrading from WordPress 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. Note that this guide will work equally well for upgrading to 2.0.3, 2.0.4 or 2.0.5.

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'All Marketers are Liars' - Seth Godin speaks at Google

  • March 6, 2006
  • James Skemp

If you have the bandwidth, there's a great little video available from Google - Seth Godin's speech at Google.

"All Marketers are Liars" - Seth Godin speaks at Google

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RIAA wants CD ripping to be illegal?

  • February 16, 2006
  • James Skemp
It's true, at least from news stories currently coming in. RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use and RIAA now says ripping is illegal. I think we're finally getting down to the basic point now.  Is file-sharing bad?  No (again, as I've stressed elsewhere, p2p networks allow the sharing of more than just copyrighted material).  Is the RIAA losing money bad?  Looks like it. Yeesh.

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Gmail accounts - and Gmail-Talk interaction thoughts

  • February 15, 2006
  • James Skemp

First off, Gmail accounts are basically a dime-a-dozen these days, but if you're still looking to pick up an account, I have a number of invites I'd be willing to shed.

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Yes, I do like the Internet Explorer 7 ad

  • February 10, 2006
  • James Skemp

Bink.nu has a link to a WMV file of the IE 7 teaser video. To say the least, it's cute - in a very good way.

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The Internet - critical mass?

  • February 9, 2006
  • James Skemp

Having moved from items written in January of 2006, to items written in late-2005, then to 2001, and then back to mid-2005, I have realized for myself what many have already realized. There's a problem with the Internet.

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OpenOffice is still a processing hog

  • February 7, 2006
  • James Skemp

Get OpenOffice.org I like OpenOffice, I do. I think that OpenOffice is where things are heading in the future.

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