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Impressive

If you still need a Gmail account… I’ve donated most all of my invites to isnoop.net for distribution.

After a glitch in which 3 days worth of Jots went missing, they’ve been restored again. Yay!

Upon mailing a notification of the loss, I received a prompt reply of reassurance from Joe McDonald of VPOP Technologies.

A super service and highly recommendable.

So, stay tuned for a lot more Jots.

no-www.org is spreading the word.

Make your site Class B:

… all of the traffic to http://www.yourdomain.com is politely and silently redirected to http://yourdomain.com. This is currently the preferred no-www classification as it does not inconvenience your users, but it does assert the deprecated nature of the www subdomain.

The process of making your domain a Class B is quite simple. All you need to do is create or modify a file called .htaccess…

(via digg/links)

Hard drive errors are never welcome. They are even less welcome when you haven’t been doing regular backups. No matter how the problem manifests itself - random freezes, strange behavior, clicks, or grinds - the warning signs are there, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. The key is how you react once your precious hard drive starts going south.

On death and dying: reconciling yourself to hard drive failure

More a privacy issue, I guess, but nonetheless:

Heads Up: RedTeam advisory

Images created by digital cameras and later cropped or otherwise modified by applications like Adobe Photoshop often contain an unmodified Version of the Image in the embedded thumbnail image. This can result in information disclosure.

(via Heise online)

Normally I don’t get excited about sporting events, but this is …

Awesome.

BBC SPORT

Lance Armstrong has announced that he will ride in this year’s Tour de France and aim for a seventh straight win.

The man is just so incredibly amazingly awesome!