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yeah i have to admit i got up the whales, which was starting to get interesting but still in walkthrough mode. i was impressed with the spirit of it but i just didn't stay motivated.  maybe i'll give it another try in a bit.

It may help that I'm in the middle of my nightly drinking binges when I play it.  It's particular fun with a hint of blurring.

How long did you play? I really didn't start getting into it until the last few minutes of the demo -- when things started getting notably more difficult to figure out.

Eets is a brand new game for the PC that plays something like lemmings but with the zany personality and graphic style of Worms.  It's a real delight to play.  Adding icing to the cake, it comes with a robust level editor so you can create your own levels to share online with friends or via their online community. A time limited ( 1 hour ) demo is available for download, it's worth checking out.  I have to warn you, though, after spending that hour with Eets, you'll probably be strongly considering the 20 dollar price tag . . . I am.

I can assure you the from address can be changed, it's probably under your account's settings or else, perhaps if there's a 'profile' section there -- I've never used it.  As for different from addresses for different folders/recipients, I doubt it -- but anything is possible.

Yeah, but I think the real big issue isn't business -- it's the fact that to those small developers, the products are more than products.  They're works of art, of a sort -- something that they fell connected to.  Its quality is a direct reflection of them.

I'm not sure what you're asking, so . . . feel free to elaborate

How do you define success?  As far as profitability is concerned, it takes a lot of work and social networking to make a website sufficiently profitable.  However, if you define success (as I do) as creating something that works sufficiently enough to please a handful of people who appreciate it, then you should have no trouble.  Generating dynamic content from syndicated feeds is a relative breeze and the result is an informative, fresh website -- as opposed to a flat, stagnating cob-web haven.

That said, if you're going to be writing the system to handle this yourself you should decide before you start whether you want to control the feeds exclusively or if you want to make it possible for users to customize their own accounts -- as adding customization after completing a singular implementation would surely be a big hastle, taking as much time as the original project.  Also keep caching in mind -- for the sake of your own machine, sure, but more importantly the websites you'll be drawing the feeds from.  It'll speed things up drastically as well as prevent over-drawing from the blogs/news you're getting your data from.

A side note, where procastination is concerned, you're not doing too bad.  I have a friend who nabbed a domain name/hosting something like 5 years ago or more -- with every intent of doing something with it.  To this day, it's just used for e-mail.

Exactly... that Japanese guy that stayed for 48 hours in that 24/7 restaurant (never got to the check-out where he SHOULD have paid) before thrown out was more funny

I hadn't heard about that -- that's great.  He was given a free meal because he overstayed his welcome.  Note to self . . .

Going back and forth between my respirator and tobacco   And yeah, the avatar is yours truly.

Wow, that's incredible.  I'm amazed at how effectively he carried the injured one, didn't slow him down much at all!

It's a fact, humans weren't the first to develop social structure and social interaction.  What really amazes me is the insect kingdom -- some of the most complex communities/social/political structures in nature aren't lower mammals, but insects.  Bees, especially.

It has always been my experience that individual developers and smaller companies (to my knowledge, JGSoft and the "we" used on their software pages refer exclusively to Jan Goyvaerts) seem to really be mindful of and focus on creating solid, bug free (insofar as it is possible) applications -- while larger companies focus first and foremost on expanding and locking-in their userbase, rather than pleasing it -- always a classic example, Microsoft.

The Bat! is an interesting study, to me -- as they really do seem to care about these things and try to address them but have some fundamental organizational problems and little to no business sense.  Their mail client is great, the most powerful I've seen, but not without its issues (lack of sufficient documentation not withstanding).

I'm assuming you've already figured this out, but if not--
Account -> Properties -> General -- change the "From" address, as opposed to the reply-to address.  You can also specifiy unique from/reply/etc. on a per folder, per address-book entry, etc. basis.

Sounds like somebody has a case of "Needs to try The Bat!".

Cool idea, anti-climactic in his delivery.  He should have stuck it out until told to leave.  It's a 24/7 store, he was purchasing the merch he took -- it was all legal.  You need more than 40 hours to make for anything truly interesting, I think.

I'd read about these services a few years back in Wired -- the one thing that really sparked my interest was mention of a specific gene -- if you don't have it, you can't/won't get lung cancer -- period.  As a happy smoker, I'd be curious to know if I was/wasn't prone to cancer.

Before anyone says anything, I know -- "if you're worried, quit, then it doesn't matter" -- but I doubt knowing would change my behavior, it's more a matter of morbid curiosity

For example ... JGSoft produce EditPad Pro. When you buy EdirPad Pro version 5 from them you get unlimited updates as long as version 5 is being developed but if you want to move up to version 6 when it released you buy an upgrade.

A nice aspect of JGSoft in that regard, is they don't absolutely abandon one version when the next releases -- while no new features are added, the previous version does see fixes to significant bugs that are found.  It ceases to be supported in much the same time frame as it ceases to be used -- old versions sort of phase themselves out as users move on to new versions, bugs fail to be found/reported and there's no more need for development.  It's nice to see a willingness to support users who don't need the new features.

In his blog, Jan Goyvaerts discussed this briefly (most of the post is about his EULA, which is rather progressive itself).

I ’m also happy to promise free bugfix releases. They’re essential to keeping customers happy anyway, not to mention keeping them recommending our products to everybody they know. Fixing bugs costs time and money, but not nearly as much as acquiring new customers through means other than word-of-mouth. And those new customers would just be as dissappointed about the same bugs. Yes, it does happen that we can’t resolve a problem. For those situations, there’s my personal money-back guarantee.

Well, I already quoted them above: "We also believe that RSS is not email" - so they are using a different approach. So far, I like it.

While RSS certainly isn't e-mail, I've always preferred an email-esque approach to it -- particularly when dealing with lots and lots of feeds.  Filtering is always nice, then.

Neat . . . I'm not pleased that it "rejected" half the browsers/jobs when queueing me up, saying the line was too long.  Naturally, I don't -need- an Opera screenshot, but one should have been given

That's pretty neat -- php bundled and all.

I use abyss web server for testing (apache is just more trouble than it's worth for non-deployment testing) -- and it works well.  I'd installed it with php and carried the setup on a flashdrive.  Worked without much trouble.

Bit Torren frustrates me some times too -- the biggest problem is that I'm usually looking for something relatively obscure, which is essentially the reason for the slow download -- too few peers/seeds.  It just so happens that that slow download, however, is faster than no download -- and torrents are often the only thing I can find them in.  So it's slow or nothing   Took me over a week to download a 1 gig file.

Microsoft manages to put together some really awesome security holes.  It's as if they do it on purpose, they're so good at it.  They should be commended for doing what they do oh so well.

allen: did you report that to the bugtracker (I did just in case). I believe it may actually be a regression, though the CSS2.1 spec is not entirely clear on the expected behaviour.

I didn't, I knew you'd come through for me.  You rule

If you select the option to leave your format alone, it won't strip out all the white space.

I was a bit flattered by it -- most of the changes it made were just stripping out comments, which I'd rather leave in there anyway.

I think that this is a pretty cool thing, but I wonder -- short of huge, huge, huge stylesheets -- or stylesheets intended for really slow machines/connections, does this really save enough bytes to make it worth the clicks it takes to do it?

I'd written an optimizer of sorts the focussed less on size and more on combinging elements that shared the same attributes, so as to have as few lines to edit as possible.  Too bad that system bit the dust, too lazy to re-write it:)

I've already mentioned it in half a dozen threads, but I'm absolutely stuck on EditPad Pro.  It has all the basic and not-so-basic features you'd expect from a text editor.

Most big text/programming editors have generally the same feature set, the real difference is a matter of subtlety--what you need and/or what you're used to.  For me, the real kickers--what keeps me with the same program--is not so much the features but the editor itself.  It's text editing engine in general really feels like its first and foremost purpose is text processing -- everything else is gravy.  From efficient keyboard navigation to conversion routines to the absolute best regex support on the market. (Regex find/replace features a multi-line text entry area with syntax hilighting, much better than the single <30 char input box most offer) -- and a key thing for me is (optional) persistent selections and inherent add ons to it (ctrl+m to move the selection to your cursor, ctrl+d to duplicate the selected text, etc.).

A few other perks for me -- most of the features are available  settings can be stored in an ini file making the application totally portable, there's an application for making custom syntax hilighting schemes (comes in handy for proprietary data formats I use now and again), syntax aware live spelling, external tools -- and whatever else you might think of.  The few things that weren't there are implemented in the upcoming version 6 -- whose beta is really stable and sexy, right now

Finally, to my delight, the text processing engine for EditPad is also in JGSoft's other applications--which also integrate into one another in a number of ways, making for a great family of familiar applications--RegexBuddy, Power Grep, AceText -- most of which I use ceaselessly, daily.  I feel like a marketeer, at this point . . . I've just been using JGSoft's applications for too long . . .

For quickly previewing text, on the other hand, I usually just use Editor2, which is bundled with xplorer2. TED Notepad is nice, too.  My biggest complaint with minimalist editors -- TED, metapad, editor2 -- they all use the registry to store their settings, which drives me nuts.  I like to have the option to drop it on my flash drive and go.

It's the difference between a real woman and a slattern, I'd much rather look at an attractive woman than be repelled by a skank.

I prefer women that are beatiful WITHOUT makeup, but are drop-dead gorgeous with. Vista is a case of "I can live with this skank when she has a couple of pounds of makeup on".

Is it just me that finds these comments slightly offensive? Some of us may not be much to look at but we are human beings with the same emotions as everyone else (and perhaps a little more grey matter than women who spend 90% of the time in beauty parlours, in front of the mirror or having surgery).

The difference here, if I may -- not everyone is expected to be drop dead gorgeous, by any means.  And anyone who says one can be measured by their beauty is a fool.  However, in this instance, the product is largely being sold on an aesthetic basis -- and, like the models in the magazines, if you're selling beauty--then we want beauty.  I don't expect my wife to look like a centerfold--and think no less of her if she doesn't--but, damnit, that centerfold sure better look like one -- that's what she's paid for!

Note: I'm probably the last person who should be drawing this analogy, I don't much care for makeup or centerfold types . . . I like my women like I like my operating system: plain and efficient/sufficient.

Well as far as web standards go, much too little too late.

I completely agree.  It's functionally superior to previous versions, but at the end of the day the general attitude seems to be that they don't have to create a superior browser, people will use it anyway.  And for a large chunk of the population, this is still unfortunately true . . . which continues to make life difficult for us developers.

That said, I was refreshed you didn't mention their pitiful ACID2 results -- while seeing a browser pull it off, I get sick of all the ACID, ACID, ACID clammoring. A benchmark, not a priority -- and by no means the true measure of a browser--not yet, anyway.