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Dreamhost Out, TextDrive In

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

You might have noticed that this site is much faster than it used to be. The reason? I moved it from DreamHost to TextDrive.
TextDrive costs more, its “control panel” is not as good as DreamHost’s, and its bandwidth/storage limits are lower. But my site is far faster, hasn’t had any downtime or […]

Taking a look at Zoe, “Google for your email”

Monday, April 26th, 2004

I tried out Zoe (http://zoe.nu) recently, having seen it described as “Google for your email”. Of course that monikor will make less sense with Gmail here.
Zoe runs in the background on your machine, acting as a (non-real-time) proxy for your incoming (POP) and outgoing (SMTP) email connections; you continue to use your existing email client, […]

Recommended Reading

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

Design Patterns, Gamma et al. I have purchased and read several other books on this topic, including language-specific books and longer books. I still like this one best.
Programming […]