Category Archives: rants

G(rrrrrhhhh)mail: Slow Google Mail Attachment Downloads

I’m a big fan of Gmail but they’re a few things about it I find annoying. My Friend Kenny Lee, of Hidden Messages fame, sent me the band’s album, which they had recently finished recording, earlier this week. He attached each track as an mp3 to an email (I believe Gmail has a total attachments [...]

MSN messenger has a mind of its own!

I often have MSN messenger running on my PC for a number of reasons:

It starts-up when the machine starts-up
Its refuses to let you close it unless you shut outlook, Internet explorer and about 20 other Microsoft programs
I occasionally use it to chat to people online

Friday lunchtime I was chatting to people on Messenger. Once I’d [...]