Although I havent posted much lately (‘whats wrong with me, I dont have much to say’) decided to upgrade the blog + the K2 theme. Well quite a bit of work, especially since filezilla, the ftp client I use decided to not completely transfer all files. Anyway, I dont see a lot of difference, so that makes me wonder why I even bothered :). Oh I am sure this version is ‘more secure’. Haha
I am in, are you ?
The Burning Crusade
Blizzard have announced that their expansion to the very popular MMORPG world of warcraft, is the best selling game on one day, ever.
I have been playing it since last tuesday when it was released, and I must say I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. It’s very nice to meet the players again, that I used to play with when WoW started, almost 2 years ago.
Adrina Thorpe
Found a very nice new artist on podshow.com. Think Adam Curry played some of her songs before, and maybe I heard her in some other podcasts as well. Especially check out her excellent song Sorry !
Gmail stuff
Found two sites that will help you get more out of your Gmail:
Thanks to the Daily Breakfast and it’s listeners !
Blue K2
Inspired by Checkweb (a dutch blog), I changed the style of K2 once again to Blue K2. Thought this theme was very nice. I really liked the sawchuck theme as well, so I copied some elements, like the blockquotes over to this new theme ;). Sort of the best of both worlds.
CSS Tips
Some handy tips on writing good CSS can be found at 456 Berea St. which is actually a response to Jonathan Snook’s blog post: Top Tips for CSS. The 456 Berea blog is definitely worth a subscription in your favorite feed catcher by the way, it’s got some nice content !
Jotspot acquired by Google
Was a bit surprised to find this (in my gmail box no less):
We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. More importantly, we want to reassure you that you’ll continue to have uninterrupted access to your account.
It’s starting to become obvious that Google is trying to assemble a complete ‘online office’ solution. They now have offer email, spreadsheets, a wordproccessor, agenda and with jotspot, another great online collaboration tool.
I had been trying Jotspot for a new software project for work and it seem to work wonderfully. You can put documentation, spreadsheets, an agenda etc. all in one place (a wiki), and give rights to people on the project that need it (read only, write access etc). It wasnt free though, and it looks like that will be changed now, which is even more an incentive to start using it for this particular project. Though it might have some google adsense ads added to it.
Will paying customers still be charged?
We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service. Although you will still have use of the product at your current pricing plan, we won’t charge you anymore when your current billing cycle expires.
Scoble made a post about it too, you can find two nice videos on jotspot at the scoble show.
There is also a nice article on techcrunch.
Quotes are from Jotspot’s email to existing customers.