Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
When I started university back in 1990 the computer systems available were a lot more primitive that today. Desktop PCs were only made available to college students the year after I joined, so for the first year of my Computer Science studies I only had access to mainframe systems, and in particular a VAX VMS […]
It never fails to amaze me how, when small businesses go to all the effort of registering a domain name and creating a web site, that they don’t use that domain for their email. I seem to see it all the time – mostly on the side of vans, and sometimes on invoices and other […]
After waiting around a month in the waiting list, I have finally got access to the Mailbox iPhone app this morning. When I first downloaded the app in early February there were almost half a million people ahead of me in the queue waiting to get access, and it’s taken all this time to get […]
I just discovered that, because of some changes I made to my accounts a few days ago, a lot of my incoming email has been bouncing over the weekend. Due to an undocumented ‘feature’ of my domain host, I had somehow managed to set a couple of email addresses to forward in a perpetual loop […]
