Yesterday afternoon Firefox passed the 100,000,000 download mark. Well done to the Firefox and Mozilla teams! This is an amazing achievement completed in under a year! (344 days, 17 hours, and 14 minutes)
Here are links to Spreadfirefox and the Mozilla Press Release.
Damn coding conventions. I am coding some networking code and came across this warning from the compiler:
Local Variable sex is not used.
The variable “sex” is a Sockets exception so my coding conventions require it to be called sex. Hmmm. 
Some of the best guitar work I have ever seen. It is a guy playing a song by Yngwie Malmsteen called “Far Beyond the Sun.” Absolutely beautiful.
Last night was another of those wonderful evenings out in London called the Geek Dinner. Our guest for this evening was none other than Tim O’Reilly. It was held in a Hogshead pub in Central London near Oxford Circus and turned out to be a great venue. We had the entire basement floor and Ian Forrester did a great job organizing it all. A few drinks, some food and a great 10 minute talk from a very jet-lagged Tim. We finished the evening off with a few beers with Ian, Ben and a few other very interesting people.
Thanks again to Ian who pulled off a very good evening out.
I am watching the video from Channel 9 about the new hotmail version codenamed Kahuna. I got to the part where the question over email size was discussed. Premium users can send and receive 20 megs while normal users will be stuck with 10 megs either way.
My question is why do email providers keep sticking with small email sizes? With bandwidth constantly increasing, the free email providers still hold down the users. What really got me going was the developer who told us that email is not really the medium that large files should be sent through. Fair enough - if you are a techie. If you are Mr and Mrs Smith and are communicating with your daughter with videos; FTP sites or torrents are not easy methods of sending files. Email is the easiest and quickest method of sending files to your contacts.
I wish more developers would step outside their boxes and realize that users are crying out for larger email attachment allowances. If I had the option, I would use email to send my large files. It is so much easier than uploading to a web server and then sending the link. Why not just send the file. My “favourite” MS developer stated the SMTP gateways wouldn’t be able to handle emails which have large attachments. Tut tut. Not true. Any email server that receives a large email should immediately skip spam and virus checking as both virus and spam senders won’t bother sending large emails because it becomes difficult to email in bulk. Therefore the only work a gateway is doing is passing it onto another server or storing it in the user’s mailbox.
We aren’t sitting in the days of dial-up anymore. Bandwidth is plentiful and cheap. Let the users have what they want.
*end rant*
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