General: April 2005 Archives

Does anybody know of a "sane" way of doing this with Outlook 2003? I've been scouring the web for the last couple of weeks trying to find a sane solution and have hit a brick wall. The plugins I have come across including this one simply won't work, as they expect me to generate a key based on an email address, which I don't want or need to do. Getting it to work with Thunderbird and Enigmail on linux (ubuntu) or windows is easy. Why does Outlook have to be so awkward?

Entertainment.ie have revamped their design. I'm not sure if there are any new functions but the new design is nice and fresh. Edit: There are new features, including a customisable view, however there is no verification of the email used for signup! NBIf you arrived here via Google or another search engine please note that this site has nothing to do with entertainment listings in Ireland.

I am getting really annoyed with having to deal with silly amounts of spam submissions to search.ie every day. The site gets approximately 50 new submissions every day, which could be seen as a positive sign if it were not for the quality of the submissions (or more importantly the lack thereof). What does a site selling pet urns in Texas have to do with Ireland? The idea that anybody would want to cremate their pet and store its remains in an urn strikes me as quite bizarre anyway, but I fail to see what relevance it has to Ireland. The hardcore p0rn submissions are not as numerous as they used to be, but are easy to spot in any case. Last weekend I did a cleanup of the submission queue and got it down from over 700 pending links to a more managable 10-15. After struggling manually through a few pages of junk I ended up doing most of the pruning directly on the DB and removed all submissions that included URL redirectors, affiliate code or submissions from my "favourite" spammers. I'm hoping that Gossamer Links SQL will make browse.ie easier to maintain.

Somebody posted a link to a very good article that explains the concept of overselling in a clear and balanced way. It's definitely worth reading if you are getting tired of reading marketing junk from hosts claiming NOT to oversell. Of course they do, they just don't like admitting to it. Even if they think they aren't they are still part of an oversold chain. Read the article for yourself: Overselling Hosting

Irish ISP Test was chosen by ENN as their "website of the week"

El Pais have published an excellent multimedia guide to the papal elections, spanning from the pope's death to the end of the conclave. There is a lot more multimedia content on their site, which is well worth a visit. Yes, it is in Spanish :)