I don’t use any of the personalised home page services like Netvibes or PageFlakes but I thought I’d check out the new themes you can select for Google’s one.
As you can see a colour blind monkey with herpes must have been left in a room with crayons and open tins of paint.
I wouldn’t normally pick on Google over design/style issues because they never even try. They just make usable interfaces and leave it at that. I use those interfaces all day (GMail, Calendar, Reader etc.) and think they are fine.
But when they do try, as above, they get it spectacularly wrong.
(If you are the guy at Google who did these themes then I apologise for making fun of you, I really don’t want you to feel hurt, I just think the themes are hilariously ugly.)
St. Patrick’s day yesterday was absolutely massive. I was part of Waterford’s St. Patrick’s Day parade onboard the ACSE boat which was a new and fantastic experience for me. Then it was off to the pub to watch Ireland hammer Italy in their Six Nations game. The 51-24 result meant France had to score 24 points more than Scotland in the following Six Nations game. That seemed a big ask and with Scotland doing well out of the gates we all thought Ireland had a good chance of winning the championship. France though started pulling ahead and at one point looked good to win. Somehow though Scotland pulled a try back and left Ireland in the lead. The pub went wild, celebrations about to begin when France in the last move of the game went over the line. But a Scottish defender had an arm under the ball and not even on the replays could anyone see if the ball was down. Somehow the TV ref gave the try and France won.
I have to say I haven’t felt that gutted over a sport’s result since South Africa failed in a Cricket World Cup years ago against Australia.
The day wasn’t over though and we happily watched Wales beat England.
Then the most amazing thing happened; Ireland beat Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup. Ireland beat Pakistan, who are ranked fourth in the world. Absolutely incredible. Easily the biggest shock of the CWC so far and probably for the rest of the tournament.
Key Users Will Bail Ah, the double-edged sword of network effects. I suspect that once the community anchors in Twitterati start to give up on it (and they will; wait for the SXSW hangover to take effect) it won’t take long for the entire house to crumble.
I just want to say that I don’t follow Scoble or any of the Blogerati who are on Twitter. I don’t much see the point as I follow those folk through their blogs.
I use Twitter much more locally than I do blogs. So there is no Twiterati for me and I suspect for many others. Those following the Twiterati now will probably start dropping off and localising who they follow.
Well done to Ireland for drawing their game against Zimbabwe in the Cricket World Cup today. A draw in one-day cricket is pretty bloody amazing. 221 each. Zim really fumbled it at the end it seems.
I would have been happy with either team winning as I’ve lived in both countries (Zim as a kid and Ireland now.) Great places both and some of the best people I have known.
Mozy is backup made easy. Create an account, download the client, select the directories you want backed up and then just leave it in the background. On a fast line I had my 2gb free account filled up in a few hours. Restoring files is easy; just request a package of files you want restored and a few minutes later you are emailed a link to download the package.
The unlimited version is $4.95 per-month which is peanuts really.
One thing to note is that this isn’t an Amazon S3 competitor. I can’t share my Mozy backed-up files with anyone else, I can’t even view a file “hosted” by Mozy. It is a backup service, nothing more and nothing less. For this it is much cheaper than Amazon S3.
One missing feature in the beta Mac OS X client I am using is external HD support. It is available in the Windows client but is “a few months away rough guess” in the Mac OS X client. Most of the files I want to backup are on an external HD so I will just have to wait. But the test I did with 2gb worked very nicely so I am confident the 150gb on my external HD will work fine too.
If you are a web-developer in Ireland, or willing to live here, and want to be involved in a public RSS project then drop me an email. We are looking for someone who knows CSS, XHTML and JavaScript. That means you can do it in a text-editor, not dragging-and-dropping in Dreamweaver. It means you either already do OO in JavaScript or are willing to learn. Ajax and all that goodness too. Experience, qualification etc. requirements are not set in stone, if we see the steely glint of a web-dev in your eye it will be good.
Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
COPY the ENTIRE List below and add it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.
Take “My Adds” and move them into the “My Originals” list.
4) Add 3 Brand New Narcissistic Bloggers that you know of
