Whilst troubleshooting Gmail for Hosted Domains mail delivery issues, I came across Google Apps for Your Domain. It doesn’t appear on my Dashboard, but does on Jaq’s.
It allows for publishing of web pages, stored on Google’s servers, under your domain name.
I’m playing with it now.
I’ve got hosted Gmail for both my domain, and my partner’s. It’s really good - much better than mydomain.com’s crappy email forwarding service, which seemed to fail every odd month.
However, there is one caveat to take notice of. If you create a new account, and set it all up, including allowing POP access (which requires logging in, and agreeing to the ToS), everything works fine. If you upgrade this to an Administrator account, you need to log into this account again, and agree to the admin ToS, else you can no longer download mail via POP.
Took me a while to figure this out…
I’ve had a loan laptop on more than one occasion recently, and I quite liked it. I recieved an email with an advert for salary sacrifice the other day, and did a bit of research. I’d prefer a MacBook, but the group I got the email from weren’t any cheaper than the Apple Education prices.
Anyway, buying a $1700 laptop over 2 years would end up costing me only $15 per week, dropping down to $10 per week over 4 years. I’m due in a couple of months for a payrise of about this much, so I may do this.
From a trackback from Paul’s Time Sink, I came across a Spanish Castle optical illusion. You must see/do this, it’s truly excellent.
I’ve never really liked Steve Irwin. His over-exuberance annoyed me. When he nearly fed his baby to a crocodile, I felt like the rest of Australia was starting to feel the same way as me.
Steve Irwin died yesterday, killed by a stingray. The man who scoffed at the danger of crocodiles was (apparently) only the second person in Australian history to die after a stingray-related accident. The stingray’s tail barb flicked up into his chest, and he died shortly after.
The news programs on Australian television had created tributes to the man by the evening news, and the late news was almost all about Irwin. Apparently the morning programs were even worse. Having died young, killed by a creature he was filming, Irwin has cemented his place in the Australian collective psyche for a very long time. Going out with a bang has made sure he will stay famous.
Of course, had Steve Irwin taken the advice of the anti-skin cancer groups, he would still be alive today. If he’d worn sunscreen, he would have been protected from dangerous rays…
