You can now have Google Start Pages for Hosted domains. I’ve found one bug – my calendar on my start page doesn’t reflect the entries that are in it. And I can’t find where to report this bug…the link that should work gives me an error saying that page isn’t within the pages for hosted domains, or something. It will be cool to be able to have calendar, inbox and ToDo items on the one page, though.
I’ve started playing this game, but have hit some hardware or software issues. I keep getting system crashes, and Windows crash reporter isn’t much help. I think it’s my graphics driver, and I’m downloading an update. In the meantime it seems to have killed my Direct X installation too, so I’ve updated that. Since I installed, I haven’t been able to run WoW either, so I hope that’s just a temporary thing since the last crash, not a fuckup of the Direct X installation. Update: It gets better. Checkout this error when I try to run AOE III demo: 
Apparently, my GeForce has no memory.
I noticed a few new features in the Dashboard for Gmail for Hosted Domains. Domain alias – it’s now possible to have multiple domains using the same mailboxes. That is, you could have company.com, and company.net, and have users only have ot have one account – all mail delivered to username@company.net can be forwarded to username@company.com, and each user you set up on company.com has the .org address too. Much neater than having a heap of forwarding addresses. Better sign-in URLs – to access hosted Gmail, I had set up a redirect from http://mail.schinckel.net to http://mail.google.com/hosted/schinckel.net/, but it’s now possible to have a proper CNAME record. This works for mail, and calendar. I’ll have to set this up, as soon as I can get to my domain registrar (it’s blocked at work). Cool. Two features I like a lot.
via xkcd.
I’m always playing that game. When you see a person on TV or in a movie, and you spend the next hour trying to remember where you’ve seen them before. There was just a Qantas advertisement on TV, with the punchline “They know I like my beer in the evening, and my Newspaper in the morning”. It’s got two guys, one of which I picked straight away. He was in Frontline, the grumpy other reporter. The other guy, that had me stumped. Until I remembered where I’d seen him. He was in the short film “Twins”, where he talks about being a single dad with twins, and how it’s important to choose a favourite. I’ve got a copy of it somewhere – searching on Google was fairly useless. Google: Twins Favourite Movie only bought up pr0n, and disney. Dunno which is worse, there. Aaargh. Maybe I’ll find a link one day.
Angels with Dirty Faces • Sugababes • Angels with Dirty Faces
This post was in the Blogsome Forums tonight: 
No, you aren’t looking for “mail friends” – you are looking for people to click on your silly little links, and get you some linkage lovin' – which probably somehow results in you getting money. And what’s worse? You aren’t even on Blogsome, the forums where you have posted this. Maybe, just maybe, I would have had some thoughts about the validity of this post if you had at least some relationship to Blogsome. Well, I ain’t standing for none of it. Your Spam post is gone, and if you put any more up, well, gosh darn it I’ll just delete them too. And your little dog, too.
There has been some discussion about how Blogsome doesn’t allow Email posting, and now a new service has stepped in to fill the gap.
Blogmailr is a free service that allows you to send an email to a predetermined address (like r7873hud@blogmailr.com ), and it will automagically appear as an entry on your blog.
You’ll need to visit Blogmailr first, and register. I created a new user in my blog (be sure to promote it to a level that can post, ie > 0), so that if things go bad, I can easily remove posts, and it can’t remove anything I have posted from my proper account.
You can also add categories, and styling to the post. Like I have to this one.
Thanks to Micah for this find.
Update: I’ve not used Blogmailr since this date, and have removed the user to which it was attached…
The latest National Interest podcast had a segment on Carboard Coffins. These are an environmentally friendly replacement for regular coffins, and interestingly both interviewees were from Adelaide. I realised, at the end of the story, that I knew the John Smith that was referrred to as having been buried/cremated (I missed this bit) in a cardboard coffin. He was a lecturer we had at Uni, who died a couple of years ago from cancer. John taught us an Energy Systems class, where we studied a heap of environmentally sensitive topics, such as sustainable housing, and other bits like that. Pete, a good friend of mine had a bit more to do with him after Uni finished. Hi Pete.
Grace Park, the stunning Korean-Canadian actress who plays Boomer in the new BattleStar Galactica also had a short role in the first episode of the second season of Dark Angel. Her line:
Copulation was unsuccessful, Ma'am. X5-698 failed to achieve minimum mission requirements, Ma'am.
At which point the bumbling idiot who couldn’t achieve minimum mission requirements was bundled off. Mind you, she’s hot, but she’s nothing next to Jessica Alba.
Successful copulation between myself and X5-452, Ma'am. [Pause] Twice.
You dog, you.
Sorry, no real nipple here folks.