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One trillion

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

1,000,000,000,000 equals one trillion, which of course is quite a lot.  Well Google commented today that they have this many active URL’s in their index.  Back in 2000 they hit the billion mark and the first index in 1998 had only 26 million pages.
How do we find all those pages? We start at a set [...]

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Gmail IMAP disappeared

April 16th, 2008 · 30 Comments

So I set up to use Gmail as a nice way to keep an archive of email that I can use across multiple machines.  Well today Outlook (I happen to be on a PC at the time) gave me a nice alert that stated your account doesn’t support IMAP.  I hopped to the browser and [...]

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Getting myself mobile

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As someone who carries a laptop around all the time and on every vacation I have never worried too much about keeping everything accessible beyond the local machine I have (currently a MacBook Pro).
Recently I started thinking about migrating to online tools where possible.  For example I started using Google Reader over NetNewsWire so that [...]

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