I don’t check my Hotmail very often anymore (since switching to Gmail quite a while ago), but I did today just to clear the alerts I keep getting from MSN Messenger (where most of my IM contacts are). I noticed a fairly garish and green button inviting me to check out Live Mail Beta and decided to have a look.
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Microsoft Live Mail
April 10th, 2006Joga update
March 30th, 2006The Official Google Blog has just posted about Joga – gives a good overview of what’s on offer there. Joga is still in ‘invite only’ mode though; so the world may have to wait to see my hot football skills (ahem!).
A Look at Google Page Creator
March 22nd, 2006Well, I got an invite to check out Google Page Creator today. The good news is I doubt this will threaten my career; the bad news is… actually, there isn’t really any bad news (except perhaps some of the tacky templates available, but to be fair, they look pretty slick compared to the good old days of Geocities).
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Google and Nike Launch Joga.com
March 20th, 2006Google and Nike – perhaps a less than obvious pairing – have launched Joga (via Slashdot), which purports to be social networking site for Football fans around the world. Of course at the moment its got the usual ‘Invite Only’ status everyone has come to know when it comes to new Google products.
I find it interesting that this site appears to have video and photo sharing — is this the first we may see of a Google photo sharing service? Such a product seems to be strangely missing from Google’s product line up, especially considering its very offline photo organising service Picasa.
Maybe Google aren’t quite ready to challenge Flickr (and Yahoo!) just yet.
British Design Museum and Accessibility
March 3rd, 2006According to the British Design Museum website, they are:
…well-equipped to welcome visitors with disabilities. Our facilities include: lifts, wheelchair access, adapted toilets, and audio guides for selected exhibitions.
The irony of all this is that in the HTML version of the site (as opposed to the Flash) this text is rendered in a GIF with no alt text (and not considering the fact the site launches several pop-up windows). So unlucky if you’re visually impaired.
Or does this raise the question of whether you could truly appreciate a Design Museum if you were visually impaired? Or an art gallery? Or museums in general?
Regardless I do love the irony of disability services information appearing in probably the most inaccessible way possible.
Now Brought to You From London!
February 5th, 2006That’s right. As of Friday the 3rd of February, 2006, our new home is West London. The holiday is over; from Singapore to Munich we had a ball through eight countries. Now it’s time to find a job!
I was very slack updating this site along the way; Angela was handling the journal writing more than adequately for both of us (rather spectacularly, actually). However, I did managed to upload a fair few photos to Flickr along the way (with surprising ease in even backwaters of South East Asia) – I’ll upload plenty more when I get the chance.
Ho Chi Minh is Mint
November 30th, 2005Well so far Ho Chi Minh City is nothing like what I had expected. All the guidebooks and websites make you think it’s a pickpocket’s paradise where you are having everything snatched off your face by scooter-riding thieves and you’re being ripped off left right and centre. The traffic is pretty heavy and its quite noisy, but it’s nowhere near the levels of Bangkok. Crossing the road is fun: just walk. Don’t look. The scooters will move for you, and if you move for them, then you just mess with the whole crazy system.
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Please, No More Food
November 27th, 2005We’ve been in Singapore for two nights now, and we’re absolutely stuffed. Our family friends, Diana and Phillip have been incredibly generous in ensuring we sample as much of the local cuisine as possible. Curries, noodles, roti, satay, durians, mangos, snake fruit, dried ginger… oh my. But the food here has been incredible. Anyway, I’m busy uploading photos, check some out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joffley/sets/1461945/. More to come!
Australia Finally Through
November 16th, 2005We finally made it. Our four-year old nemesises Uruguay lay shocked after their ‘divine’ right to qualify for the 2006 World Cup was snatched from them by an impressive show from the Socceroos. After years of agony, we finally made it. And how sweet it is.
37 Days and Counting
October 19th, 2005In 37 days Angela and I leave for the motherland – warm beer, cold weather and probably more reminders of the recent Ashes series than I’d care for. Hopefully they’ll even let me build some websites over there (that’s the plan, anyway). Before we arrive in London in February, we’ll be jaunting around South East Asia and Europe. Want to follow our travels? Well this blog will be full of updates along the road, hopefully some nice photos too. Check out our travel site for the big picture from both of us.