No doubt this is preaching to the converted but it has to be said.

Start using Firefox.

Go and download it, install it, love it.

Now.

I can’t believe it hasn’t been part of Outlook since the beginning.

I’ve had it for like a month. I stopped noticing how hard it was to search through Outlook’s folders a few years back because I stopped *trying* to search through Outlook’s folders. It was too pointless an exercise. I just found other ways to do things. I treated Outlook’s search feature as damage and routed around it.

Now, I want to know the IP address of the XYZ Server, I search my mail for “XYZ Server.” I want to know when we’re supposed to be at the restaurant, I search on the name of the restaurant.

In hindsight, I can’t believe how much Outlook sucks at some things.

–Jekke

(oh, yeah. Lookout is available for free at http://sandbox.msn.com)

WordPress 1.21 is out. Bug and security fixes. Upgrade City, here we come.

I was checking Amazon for a 2nd hand copy of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL, Second Edition. I found one only to be a little perplexed. Maybe ‘low’ means something different in Amazon land.

I bought a new USB key yesterday and plugged it in. All went well and then I received the following message :

Your device is installed but may not function properly until you reboot.

How many people these days would know what boot/reboot means? Don’t most people ‘start’ ,’shut down’ or ‘restart’ their computer? It’s similar to the icon tray icon for Microsoft Money – ‘Run Money’ is one of the right click choices. Most people these days would ‘start’ money.

Computer related language has changed and we geeks need to take this in to account when letting non-geeks know what’s happening with their software and hardware. It’s time to unlearn.

Just so you don’t think Gmail is perfect… It displays most HTML mail okay, but see how it displays replies from its own invitations: