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Ian Smith has been an absolute king when it comes to documenting the Vista Squad meetings.  Dragging his equipment around London means we as a usergroup get amazing content to show users who could not make it to the meetups.

We’re now seeing a good set of content from our speakers and are available completely free and you are even able to download the WMVs if you would prefer to watch them offline or on another device.

Coming soon will be IPhone compatible videos which after seeing a sample on Ian’s phone, I cannot wait for this to happen.

So head on over to our Vimeo site where we host the videos, and download away!

http://www.vimeo.com/vistasquad

I have a Google account that manages my domain (rjb.za.net) for mail.  I specifically use Gmail because of the awesome search abilities of the web client and was wanting to move away from the Thunderbird interface.

Over the past week, I watched my spam count move past the 10,000 mark in total unread spam emails.  I wasn’t too concerned as I didn’t ever receive any to my inbox and I know Google deletes all spam after being in that folder for 30 days.  Which points out another fact in that my amount of spam is increasing.

On one bored day, I emptied the spam box manually for no specific reason.  This seems to have been a bad idea, as now I’m being hit by at least 20 spam emails to my inbox per hour.  Does Gmail look at your spam folder?  Is there another heuristic that means its a good idea to keep the spam box untouched?

Gmail’s spam catcher has always been outstanding, never a single false positive but the amount of spam that now actually makes my inbox is increasing.  This is also coupled with the delays in mail getting through to my inbox.  On Friday, I received a response to an email chain (a proper chain, not a FW: FW: FW: type chain. ) before I received the intitial email itself.  Checking the headers when the original arrived 30 minutes later, there is a definite 35 minute wait between two Gmail servers.

Not the most promising developments from what was always a perfect experience.  Less labs and more stability please?