All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Gmail is continually improving. With the additional space, they’ve added Rich-Text Formatting. Would you use this? Do your contacts have their email clients to read that formatting, or are they content with simple text? With simple text, email would take a smaller amount of space. Of course its negligible, but in a world where time is money, each second saved waiting for that message to download could save you a bit in the long run. “Input, input!”

“To celebrate our one-year birthday, we’re giving everyone one more gigabyte. [...] Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able.” It’s not an immediate upgrade. It’s been increasing slowly from 1000 MB. As of now, I currently have 1103 MB of space, but I’m not using that much anyway. It’s still nice!

“The Count of Monte Cristo” - great movie!

Is there any way to repair Internet Explorer 6 in Windows XP without the Windows XP CD?

Since the release of 1.5, WordPress has included an “update-links” program that you can call periodically to check the latest updated time of the links in your link roll. This program queries Pingomatic, which returns a list links and update times.

However, if the links in your database are of the format “http://www.timeistight.com,” the Pingomatic API won’t recognize them, even if the site pings Pingomatic religously; the Pingomatic API responds only to links without the “www,” e.g., “http://timeistight.com”.

I first caught this in the forums, and immediately went to my Links Manager. It worked! (Thunderous applause: Time Is Tight)

This solves the following posts: Update links, Not all blogs updating?

Have you just installed WordPress? Why do the RSS feeds at the bottom have a feed: prefix? Because if you have a news aggregator installed, such as RSS Bandit, it’ll detect your clicking the link and prompt you to add that feed.

That’s the simple reason behind that prefix, and why I put it back there when I moved my RSS feeds. On a side note, I need to get a RSS button and place it somewhere, so it’s easier to spot my RSS feeds.

I just caught up on reading through 130+ items in RSS Bandit, and I have yet to go through the flagged items. I can’t imagine what Robert Scoble must go through when he has over 1000 feeds. That doesn’t include how many new items each feed has. Insane! Will I catch up tomorrow? (Um, I mean later today.)

“Log into Skype in multiple locations. Have a chat. Notice how the chat is mirrored in both locations? [Now] does this mean that someone could eavesdrop on your conversation without your knowledge? Yup.” (Golf clap: another_pseudonym speaks)

CLCL (Clipboard Caching Utility) - I think that it’d be a good program for when you’re copying and pasting lots of stuff, and you accidently copy over some huge text. Plus, it’s free!

Surftp: Web-based FTP. Secure? Not anymore secure than a FTP client not on Secure mode. Anyone have the guts to try this out?